Clink vs Eclipse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clink
This app facilitates real-time connections with people in your vicinity. It helps users discover and interact with others nearby for potential social or romantic encounters.
- Live nearby matching
- Real-time connections
- Location-based discovery
- Social interaction
- Dating opportunities
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Eclipse
This app connects people looking to go out tonight based on their chosen neighborhood. It facilitates real-time connections and plan coordination for both solo and group outings, with all interactions resetting daily for privacy.
- Time-based social planning
- Neighborhood-focused connections
- Real-time plan coordination
- Solo and group outing facilitation
- Daily interaction reset
- Privacy-focused design
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Meet someone tonight. Not someday. Eclipse is for people already planning to go out tonight. Match with people in your city who are actually going out that same day. No stale profiles. No seeing profiles of people who forgot the app exists three weeks ago. Going out in West Loop? River North? Lincoln Park? Open Eclipse and see who’s planning to go out in the same neighborhood as you or across the city. Built around neighborhoods, not random radius matching. Meet people where your night is already happening instead of matching with someone 45 minutes away, you’ll never realistically meet. No endless swiping. No pen pals. No weeks of texting that go nowhere. Every morning at 7 AM, Eclipse resets. Matches and chats disappear. The point is to create real nights out, not conversations that drag on forever. Your exact location is never shared. You’re only visible at the neighborhood level. Block or report anyone at any time. No paywalls. No hidden features. Everyone gets the full experience. Just real nights out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clink at 5.0 against Eclipse's 4.3. Clink also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Eclipse's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Clink sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Eclipse asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Clink's written reviews are positive against 75% of Eclipse's.
Clink ships an update fortnightly, Eclipse every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clink | Eclipse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (29 ratings) — better | 4.3 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Clink Tech LLC | Eclipse Platforms, Inc. |
Customer experience
Clink
Eclipse
In-app purchases
Clink
- Clink$9.991 Month
- Priority Review$4.99
Eclipse
No in-app purchases
