Full Blend vs Authentic Social Media
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Full Blend
Connect with beauty professionals and enthusiasts. Share product recommendations, discover new trends, and build a supportive community. This platform fosters creativity and collaboration within the beauty industry.
- Product sharing and recommendations
- Community building for beauty professionals
- Discover new beauty trends
- Interconnected professional network
- Inspiration for the beauty industry
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Our mission is to inspire the beauty industry to express and share their favorite products, cultivating a powerful and interconnected community
Authentic Social Media
This app offers a social experience focused on connecting with actual friends and family, free from ads, algorithms, and influencers. It allows users to share moments and participate in a daily spontaneous photo challenge called a 'Glimpse'.
- Connect with friends and family
- Share photos anytime
- Daily spontaneous photo challenge (Glimpse)
- No feed or algorithm
- No ads or influencers
- No follower counts or likes
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Social media wasn't built for your actual friends. It was built to keep you scrolling. Think about it. When did you last open Instagram to see what your best friend is actually doing right now? Instead, you got ads, influencers, and an algorithm deciding what matters. Three hours later, you're watching strangers argue about something you don't care about. Authentic is different. Just your people. Just their faces. Open the app and you see the people who matter to you—what they're doing today, where they are, how they're feeling. No feed. No algorithm. No ads. No influencers. Nothing to scroll. — HOW IT WORKS Share moments with your people whenever you want. A photo from your morning coffee. Your view from the office. Dinner with your family. Your people see it. That's it. But there's also something called a Glimpse. Once a day, at a random time, you get a notification. You have 2 minutes to share a photo—whatever you're doing right now. No planning. No staging. No picking the perfect angle. Just your life, in that moment. You don't pick the perfect moment. The moment picks you. That's what makes it real. Your people are doing the same thing. So you see their unplanned moments too. Tuesday at 2:47pm. Saturday morning still in bed. The boring parts. The real parts. — WHY I BUILT THIS I'm Atin. I got tired of the doom scroll. I wanted a place to see my friends' faces without the noise. Without spending an hour I didn't mean to spend. Without feeling worse after than before. So I built something smaller. Something focused. Something that takes a few minutes a day, not a few hours. No hundred million dollars in funding. No growth hacking. No "engagement optimization." Just a place that respects your time and your relationships. — WHAT YOU GET • Your people's faces, front and center • Share photos anytime, or capture a daily Glimpse • No algorithm deciding what you see • No ads, ever • No follower counts or likes • No strangers, no influencers, no "suggested for you" — The social app for people who are tired of social media. Instagram is for influencers. Authentic is for humans.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Full Blend at 5.0 against Authentic Social Media's 1.0. Full Blend also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). Authentic Social Media's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
Full Blend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Full Blend ships an update every 2 months, Authentic Social Media every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Full Blend | Authentic Social Media |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Apsy Inc | Authentic Technologies Inc. |
In-app purchases
Full Blend
No in-app purchases
Authentic Social Media
No in-app purchases
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