Podium Link vs ShipTogether
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Podium Link
Discover workout partners and connect with others who share your hobbies. Explore fitness businesses and find local events like tournaments and games. Enjoy a seamless experience with a full-screen, intuitive interface.
- Hobby-based matching
- Fitness business discovery
- Event finder
- Intuitive user interface
- Full-screen image display
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Find your workout partner on Podium! Select a list of hobbies and match with people based on the hobbies you like to do. Check out an array of businesses to meet your fitness needs! Use our events interface to find tournaments, competitions, games and more! Enjoy the full screen images while swiping with easy and intuitive user interface.
ShipTogether
Connect with potential co-founders, developers, and designers to build startups. Create a profile, get personalized matches, and chat instantly to turn ideas into real projects. Focus on serious builders with no distractions.
- Personalized co-founder matching
- Instant secure messaging
- Coffee chat scheduling
- Profile sharing
- Project and community showcases
- Fast browsing with rewind
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Find people to build with. ShipTogether matches founders, developers, designers, and investors around real work. You see what someone has shipped, send a connect, and start building together. BUILDERS Browse people by role. See their projects and why you might work well together. Send a connect when it fits. CHATS Talk in one thread. Share files, keep the context, and start a video call when you are ready to meet. SHIPYARD Show what you are building. Explore other projects, leave comments, and list a project for sale if you want. YOU Your profile, notifications, and settings in one place. Upgrade to Premium for deeper matching and more reach. WHO IT IS FOR Founders looking for a technical partner. Developers who want a project worth joining. Designers, marketers, and investors who care about what is actually being built. Free to join. Sign in with email, Google, or Apple. Terms (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://www.shiptogether.dev/support Privacy: https://www.shiptogether.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Podium Link at none against ShipTogether's 3. Podium Link also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. ShipTogether sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Podium Link asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Podium Link against 5.0 for ShipTogether. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podium Link has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Podium Link ships an update every 2 weeks, ShipTogether every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Podium Link | ShipTogether |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Vander Ploeg | Nobert Ayesiga |
Customer experience
Podium Link
ShipTogether
In-app purchases
Podium Link
No in-app purchases
ShipTogether
- Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
