Shadow vs NOWW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadow
A community-based social platform for real-time geolocated networking. Discover exclusive events and opportunities in major cities worldwide. Connect with a highly engaged member base.
- Community-based social platform
- Geolocated networking
- Exclusive event discovery
- Real-time opportunities
- Major city coverage
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Shadow is a selective, community-based, social platform that provides geolocated networking for a highly connected member base. Join our platform to see exclusive events and opportunities in real-time, across major cities around the world including LA, NYC, Miami, London and more.
NOWW
Discover spontaneous events happening around you and invite friends to join. This social discovery platform makes it easy to connect with people for casual meetups and activities.
- Discover spontaneous events
- Invite friends to join
- Simple event creation
- Connect with people
- Social discovery platform
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“hey, I’m going to be coworking until 6, if anyone is down feel free to join me!” Some of the most treasured memories come from spontaneity—when you bump into an old friend and end up catching up over dinner, random night outs you get pulled into by your friends, late night conversations about philosophy and music… It used to be cumbersome to plan all of these, but NOWW makes it so simple. NOWW is a social discovery platform that allows you to see spontaneous events happening around campus and invite friends to join. With just four pieces of information: Name, Overview, When, and Where, NOWW brings people together and keeps you connected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shadow at fortnightly against NOWW's every 26 months. Shadow also leads on ratings volume (44 vs 9) and device support. On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Shadow against 5.0 for NOWW. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Shadow ships an update fortnightly, NOWW every 26 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Shadow | NOWW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 26 months |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shadow Tech Incorporated | Jenstine LLC |
Customer experience
Shadow
NOWW
In-app purchases
Shadow
No in-app purchases
NOWW
No in-app purchases
