Parapost Network vs Gander Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parapost Network
A social media platform designed exclusively for the paranormal community. Connect with investigators, enthusiasts, and practitioners of occult arts to share stories, photos, and videos in a dedicated space.
- Dedicated paranormal community
- Share stories, photos, and videos
- Familiar social media layout
- Connect with investigators and enthusiasts
- Focus on cryptids, UFOs, Magick, and Witchcraft
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Parapost Network is a social media platform built for everyone - with a special home for the paranormal community. Whether you’re a paranormal investigator, enthusiast, content creator, podcaster, medium, psychic, UFO researcher, cryptid fan, occultist, or simply someone who enjoys connecting with others and discovering new content, Parapost Network gives you one place to do it all. You don’t have to be involved in the paranormal to join. Parapost Network is designed as a full social media platform where anyone can create a profile, connect with people, share updates, post photos and videos, discover creators, and build a community around the things they enjoy. Explore Parapost Reels to watch and share short-form video content, discover new creators, and share moments with the community. Stay connected privately with Parachat, our direct messaging experience designed to make conversations simple and easy. Go Live with your audience for paranormal investigations, podcasts, interviews, discussions, events, creator streams, or anything else you want to share in real time. For paranormal users, Parapost brings investigators, mediums, psychics, UFO enthusiasts, cryptozoologists, occultists, ghost hunters, and curious minds together in one dedicated community without having to search through endless unrelated content. Built with a familiar social media experience, Parapost Network is easy to use from the moment you join. Create posts, share photos and videos, connect with friends and followers, explore content, message through Parachat, watch Reels, and take your content Live. Parapost Network is growing into a place where communities, creators, investigators, podcasters, and everyday users can connect, share, discover, and build something together. Join Parapost Network and become part of a growing global community. Free to join. Free to connect. Free to explore.
Gander Social
Control your social media feed with customizable content prioritization and a focus on Canadian laws for user protection. Share text, galleries, and videos, and save favorite posts to custom boards. Built-in tools provide news reputation scores for informed content consumption.
- Customizable content feed prioritization
- Moderated under Canadian law
- Data hosted on Canadian servers
- Supports text, galleries, and videos
- Save posts to custom boards
- News reputation scores and bias ratings
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Say hello to Gander – Your feed, Your rules. Want to see what's happening in Calgary before Cleveland? Done. A feed that puts content that matters to you front and centre. – Moderated under the Charter. Free expression matters. So do boundaries. Gander follows Canadian laws to protect you. – Hosted in Canada. Your data stays here, on sovereign servers. Choose where you post. Move any time – Text, galleries and videos, oh my. Prefer videos? Cool. Rather read? Also cool. Switch between classic posts and full-screen content with a tap, and save your mind from meltdown with algorithms that aren't designed to play with your dopamine. – Save what you love. Pin your favourite posts in custom boards so you can share content IRL, or have that recipe on hand that you’ll totally never make. – News links with reputation scores, built-in. See where your news comes from and who's behind it. Our built-in tools show you bias ratings, source credibility, and fact-check results - so you can decide what makes sense to you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Parapost Network at 4.5 against Gander Social's 2.1. Parapost Network also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 71%) and ratings volume (28 vs 7). Gander Social's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 34 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parapost Network holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Parapost Network's written reviews are positive against 71% of Gander Social's.
Parapost Network ships an update every 34 months, Gander Social fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parapost Network | Gander Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (28 ratings) — better | 2.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 34 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bryan jon Laverty | Gander Social Inc. |
Customer experience
Parapost Network
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In-app purchases
Parapost Network
No in-app purchases
Gander Social
No in-app purchases









