Tape vs Deia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tape
Discover curated events, shows, and cultural experiences in NYC and LA. Join existing groups with a code or apply to the waitlist for access to exclusive happenings.
- Curated event listings
- Shows and concerts
- Cultural happenings
- Access via invitation code
- Waitlist for new members
- NYC and Los Angeles focus
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Access curated events, shows and things to do in culture in NYC & LA. You can join with a code or if you know another member. Otherwise sign up for the waitlist as we review weekly.
Deia
Discover and share favorite places with friends. This social travel app helps you track your journeys, save future destinations, and get trusted recommendations from your network, replacing anonymous reviews with personal experiences.
- Discover recommendations from friends
- Track past and upcoming travels
- Share personal place recommendations
- Save and plan future trips
- Build a visual travel timeline
- Stay connected with friends' travel plans
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Deia is your AI travel concierge. It learns from you and the friends you trust. Connect your photos and email. Deia pulls every restaurant, bar, and hotel from your last two years and maps your taste automatically. Then it layers in your friends' recs too. Ask Deia where to eat, where to stay, what to do in any city. It answers using your network first. Not sponsored posts. Not stranger reviews. The people you'd actually text for a recommendation. Save places. Build lists. Plan trips. See where your friends are going. Deia gets sharper the more your network uses it
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tape at none against Deia's 10. Deia's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Deia sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tape asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tape against 5.0 for Deia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 26 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tape ships an update fortnightly, Deia weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tape | Deia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 380 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tape Project Inc. | JAPK Holdings Inc. |
Customer experience
Tape
Deia
Bugs and requests
Tape
Requested features
1 request- More updates and features
Deia
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tape
No in-app purchases
Deia
- Buy List - Lifetime Access$3.99
- 1-Month Creator Subscription$3.99
- 1-Month Creator Subscription$4.99
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- Buy List - Lifetime Access$4.99
- Buy List - Lifetime Access$5.99
- 1-Month Creator Subscription$6.99
- Buy List - Lifetime Access$6.99
- 3-Month Creator Subscription$10.99
- 3-Month Creator Subscription$15.99
- 12-Month Creator Subscription$49.99
