Montre vs Urgent Optimists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Montre
This app allows users to create, share, and interact with augmented reality media in a shared virtual world. Explore a metaverse where digital content overlays your physical surroundings and connect with a community of creators.
- Create and share immersive AR media
- Discover and explore AR content
- Connect with a community of creators
- Rent virtual digital real estate
- Post content at specific locations
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Montre: Experience the Augmentaverse Montre is where Augmented Reality meets the Metaverse—welcome to the Augmentaverse! Transform your surroundings with Montre, the first augmented reality app that lets you create, post, and interact with media in a shared AR world. With Montre, you’ll see the world differently—overlay your reality with creative posts, connect with others, and step into the future of digital interaction. Features: Create and Share: Post immersive AR media for others to discover and interact with. Discover and Explore: Explore the Augmentaverse and uncover a world filled with endless possibilities. Connect and Collaborate: Join a community of creators shaping the AR-powered future of the Augmentaverse. Subscription Options: Montre offers two auto-renewing subscription plans as part of our Pro feature. With Pro, you can rent virtual digital real estate and decide what gets posted at those locations: Monthly Subscription: $2.99 per month (auto-renews every month). Yearly Subscription: $29.99 per year (auto-renews annually, saving you two months compared to the monthly plan). Important Subscription Information: Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase confirmation. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your account settings after purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: - [Privacy Policy](https://montrear.com/privacy-policy.html) - [Terms of Use](https://montrear.com/terms-and-conditions.html) Join Montre today and start your journey in the Augmentaverse! Let’s redefine how we see and interact
Urgent Optimists
This community app fosters creativity and optimism about the future. It offers thought experiments, future scenario exploration, and learning journeys with researchers. Connect with a global community to build a better world.
- Collective imagination
- Future scenario exploration
- Exclusive learning journeys
- Future forecasting games
- Imagination leadership certificate
- Social networking features
- Signals of change scavenger hunts
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WHAT IT IS Are you ready to face the future with more creativity and optimism? Urgent Optimists is the Institute for the Future's first individual membership program. We’re bringing together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are working to create positive transformation in society and in their own lives. You're invited to join us to: + Tap into the power of collective imagination + Participate in mind-expanding thought experiments + Discover new future scenarios + Go on exclusive learning journeys with IFTF researchers + Play future forecasting games with people from around the world + See the future from many different perspectives + Learn how to measure and increase urgent optimism in yourself and others. + Earn a certificate in Imagination Leadership WHAT YOU GET As a member, you’ll have full access to: SCENARIO CLUB. Think of it like an online book club, but for future scenarios! Discover a new scenario the first Friday of every month. Each scenario includes a short narrative, followed by supporting research, discussion questions and creative prompts. Join our monthly Zoom club meeting to go deeper into the scenarios together. IMAGINATION TRAINING. Dive into the psychology and neuroscience of futures thinking, with 24/7 online courses led by Jane McGonigal, an IFTF Research Director and New York Times bestselling author of the new book Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything, Even Things that Seem Impossible Today. TOOLS TO MEASURE AND INCREASE URGENT OPTIMISM IN YOURSELF, YOUR TEAM, OR YOUR COMMUNITY. It's a highly motivating and resilient mindset that helps us stay engaged with the hard work of making a better world. “SIGNALS OF CHANGE” SCAVENGER HUNTS. Find and share examples of change already happening today that make you feel hopeful for the future. (Because we all could use a little more hope these days!) 10 DAYS IN THE FUTURE. It’s an immersive, 10-day online learning journey that IFTF organizes for our Urgent Optimists once a year. The entire community comes together to simulate an urgent future, from climate migration to geoengineering. We tell stories about how we might personally react, adapt and help others. Each journey is designed to help you feel ready for what’s next and find your own unique role to play in making a better future. PLUS all the social networking features you need to make deep, lasting connections with urgent optimists from around the world -- including group chat study groups to support your imagination training, a forum to share and get feedback on your own future scenarios, direct messaging, and customizable profiles to tell the world what futures you want to help make. WHY IT MATTERS What the world needs now are more urgent optimists. Urgent optimism is a powerful mindset made up three key psychological strengths, which we can measure and improve together. 1. Psychological flexibility. It's the opposite of being “stuck” mentally. It’s the ability to recognize that anything can become different in the future, even things that seem impossible to change today. 2. Realistic hope. It's a balance of positive and shadow imagination. It’s knowing which risks and threats it makes sense to worry about – and which new solutions, technologies, ideas, and positive actions it makes sense to be excited and optimistic about. 3. Future power. It's a feeling of control and genuine agency to directly impact how the future turns out, by taking intentional action today. Building these strengths is what this community is all about. We're practicing the proven skills, habits and games that can measurably increase our urgent optimism, even in the face of significant future challenges and uncertainty. At Institute for the Future (IFTF), we embrace the limitless, catalytic power of imagination to unleash potential. Learn more at IFTF.org -- Terms of Use: mightynetworks.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Montre at none against Urgent Optimists's shown. Urgent Optimists's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Montre sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Urgent Optimists sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Montre against 5.0 for Urgent Optimists. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Montre ships an update every 6 weeks, Urgent Optimists weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Montre | Urgent Optimists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Augmentaverse | Institute for the Future |
Customer experience
Montre
Urgent Optimists
In-app purchases
Montre
- Pro Member Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Member Yearly$29.991 Year
Urgent Optimists
- Monthly Plan$9.991 Month
- Annual Plan$99.991 Year









