Yik Yak vs Lattice
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, and engage in direct messages. Express yourself authentically without revealing your identity.
- Anonymous posting
- Local community connection
- Meme creation
- Joke sharing
- Direct messaging
- 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
Lattice
Secure your private conversations against future quantum computing threats. This service offers end-to-end encryption designed to protect your messages from both current and emerging decryption methods, ensuring maximum privacy.
- Quantum-resistant encryption
- End-to-end encryption
- Enhanced privacy
- Secure messaging service
- Future-proof security
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In the near future, classical encryption algorithms will be broken by Quantum Computers. Already, attackers can harvest your private messages with the intent of decrypting them later. Lattice offers a messaging service built from the ground up to be secure against both classical and quantum attacks, with full end to end encryption, to maximize your privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lattice at 100% against Yik Yak's 25%. Lattice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Yik Yak's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (52K vs 1). On price and device support 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. Lattice asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lattice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yik Yak has 52K ratings behind it against 1, 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 Lattice's.
Yik Yak ships an update weekly, Lattice every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yik Yak | Lattice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (52K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yik Yak, Inc. | Sven Tornqvist |
Customer experience
Yik Yak
Lattice
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
Lattice
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
Lattice
No in-app purchases
