MyBoca vs Friday @ 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyBoca
Easily report local issues like potholes or missed trash collection to the City of Boca Raton. Track the city's response to your service requests and stay updated with the latest city news and announcements.
- Submit service requests
- Track request responses
- Receive city updates
- Navigate trending topics
- Easy to use interface
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My Boca makes connecting with the City of Boca Raton easy and convenient. Reporting local issues like potholes, damaged street signs or missed sanitation collection is done quickly and easily by opening the app, submitting a service request, and then tracking the city’s response. You can also get the latest information and updates from the City and quickly navigate to trending topics and stories. Downloading and using My Boca is free and easy!
Friday @ 5
This app provides a live countdown to Friday at 5:00 PM in your local time. It offers features like a weekend celebration mode, a way to share your countdown status, a Magic 8-Ball for work-week queries, and a drawing mode for stress relief.
- Live countdown to Friday 5 PM
- Local time synchronization
- Weekend celebration mode
- SOS Dispatch countdown sharing
- Magic 8-Ball for work questions
- Draw mode for stress relief
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Is it the weekend yet? We've all asked it. Friday @ 5 is your countdown to Friday at at 5:00 PM — always synced to your local time, always brutally honest about how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds are standing between you and freedom. Features: — Live countdown to Friday at 5:00 PM in your local time — Weekend mode — celebrates when you've made it, reminds you when it resets — SOS Dispatch: send a snapshot of the current countdown via Messages, Instagram, or any iOS share target — Magic 8-Ball for all your existential work-week questions — Draw mode to release your midweek stress Simple. Honest. A little bit therapeutic.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: MyBoca at 35 against Friday @ 5's 1. Friday @ 5's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Friday @ 5 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyBoca has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyBoca | Friday @ 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Boca Raton | Josh Blyden |
Customer experience
MyBoca
Friday @ 5
In-app purchases
MyBoca
No in-app purchases
Friday @ 5
No in-app purchases
