Yik Yak vs TasteCircle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yik Yak
Connect with local communities anonymously. Share thoughts, jokes, and memes while engaging in direct messages. Experience authentic self-expression in a space free from personal identification.
- Anonymous posting and commenting
- Direct messaging
- Meme and joke creation
- Local community connection
- Authentic self-expression
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Yik Yak is the best way to connect with the communities that matter to you most. Create memes, post jokes, share thoughts, slide into DMs, and more. All posts, comments, and messages are anonymous, so feel free to be your most authentic. Terms of Service: https://www.yikyak.com/terms
TasteCircle
This app focuses on sharing authentic food experiences with friends, capturing meals tied to real places and people. Build a personal food timeline and discover new places through trusted connections, not influencers.
- Share food moments with people and places
- Capture meals by date, location, and experience
- Discover food through trusted connections
- Build a personal food timeline
- Explore new places via community
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Taste Circle is a social food-sharing app built around real moments, not ratings or algorithms. Instead of chasing reviews, followers, or trends, Taste Circle focuses on authentic food experiences—meals shared with friends, places you genuinely visited, and memories you want to keep. What Taste Circle lets you do: • Share food moments tied to real places and real people • Capture meals by date, location, and experience • Discover food through people you trust, not influencers • Build a personal food timeline you can look back on • Explore new places through friends and community connections Whether it’s a home-cooked dinner, a night out with friends, or a meal while traveling, Taste Circle helps you remember and rediscover food the way it actually happens. Eat. Share. Remember.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TasteCircle at 100% against Yik Yak's 25%. TasteCircle also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Yik Yak's advantage is ratings volume (52K vs 34) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Yik Yak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. TasteCircle asks for nothing beyond the download.
TasteCircle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yik Yak has 52K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Yik Yak's written reviews are positive against 100% of TasteCircle's.
Yik Yak ships an update weekly, TasteCircle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yik Yak | TasteCircle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (52K ratings) | 4.9 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52K — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #41 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yik Yak, Inc. | Nathaniel Wolffe |
Customer experience
Yik Yak
TasteCircle
Bugs and requests
Yik Yak
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to delete own posts
- Inconsistent application of content filters
- Notifications not linking to correct posts
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to mute or filter specific keywords or users
- Improved notification system and post history tracking
- Expansion of location radius beyond college campuses
- Addition of user profiles and photo/link sharing
TasteCircle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yik Yak
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Monthly (Early Bird)$4.991 Month
- Monthly$6.991 Month
TasteCircle
No in-app purchases
