Shadow vs Boing
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.
Boing
This app facilitates a unique photo and video exchange where users must fulfill another's request to unlock their content. It encourages creative responses to prompts, fostering genuine interaction and shared moments in private messages. Content is ephemeral and viewable only a limited number of times.
- Fulfilling requests to unlock content
- AI-powered response matching
- Customizable photo and video prompts
- Private direct messaging
- Ephemeral content with limited views
- User-created prompts and reactions
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Boing is a photo exchange app. To see someone’s post, you have to complete their request — and if it matches, you unlock each other. For example: someone posts "What’s your favorite perfume?" You might film a "you walk in on a friend cheating, reaction" video to unlock it. Our AI checks if your response actually fits what they asked. You decide what you want to see — by asking for it. - Ask for a photo "Bite something that’s clearly not meant to be bitten." "Hold your most expensive item next to your face." - Ask a question "Have you ever stalked your ex’s new partner?" "What’s your biggest ick in other people?" If they follow your prompt, the swap unlocks automatically. Private by default Every swap lives in DMs. Each photo or video can only be viewed a few times. Nothing is public. Nothing lasts forever. Just a shared moment between two people. How people connect on Boing Make something for what the other side wants to see. People don’t just post — they react, perform, and capture moments based on each other’s prompts. You’re creating for someone, not for everyone. That’s what turns it into real reactions, real moments, and real interaction.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shadow at none against Boing's 12. Shadow also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Boing's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). 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. Boing sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Shadow asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Shadow against 4.7 for Boing. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 111 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Shadow's written reviews are positive against 97% of Boing's.
Shadow ships an update fortnightly, Boing every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Shadow | Boing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (44 ratings) — better | 4.7 (111 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 96.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 111 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shadow Tech Incorporated | FutureGadgets, Inc. |
Customer experience
Shadow
Boing
In-app purchases
Shadow
No in-app purchases
Boing
- 1 Coin$1.00
- 20 Coins$1.00
- 5 Coins$5.00
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- 100 Coins$5.00
- 10 Coins$10.00
- 200 Coins$10.00
- 20 Coins$20.00
- 400 Coins$20.00
- 50 Coins$50.00
- 1000 Coins$50.00
- 100 Coins$100.00
- 2000 Coins$100.00







