Beluga vs status.log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beluga
Share your thoughts and updates with friends and followers through a "tweet-like" feed. It generates a mini-website for easy sharing, even with non-users, and supports RSS feed readers for broader reach. This decentralized app ensures you own your data.
- Tweet-like content publishing
- Personalized mini-website generation
- JSON Feed compatibility
- Decentralized data ownership
- RSS feed reader integration
- Multiple S3-compatible storage support
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Publish your thoughts and keep your friends and followers informed of what you are up to. This app is ideal for publishing self-hosted tweets with photos and links. All your posts are added to your Beluga feed, and a mini-website is generated and published so you can easily share with everyone, even people that don’t use the app. You can think of Beluga as a feed reader/writer. All Beluga feeds are JSON Feed and RSS compatible, so your friends can follow you on many popular feed reader apps like NetNewsWire and others available on iOS and macOS. Beluga is decentralized. We don’t have any servers. So you are the owner of your data, and your self-hosted tweets live wherever you like. Beluga runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your devices stay in sync through your own site, so you can post from any of them and pick up right where you left off. To publish your Beluga feed and mini-website, you must have a web server or an account with a hosting provider. We currently support SFTP, WebDAV, Neocities, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Bunny.net, and S3-compatible object storage like Amazon Web Services S3, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces, Linode Objects, Backblaze B2, DreamHost, and many others.
status.log
This app allows users to view and update statuses, upload photos, and interact with profiles from the omg.lol platform on their iPhone and iPad. It provides a streamlined experience for managing your social presence and discovering new connections.
- View latest statuses
- Upload and view photos
- Update status for addresses
- Browse statuslog profiles
- Respond to statuses
- Discover addresses in directory
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The best way to use omg.lol on your iPhone and iPad! • View everyone's latest status • Upload and view photos with some.pics • Update the status for each of your addresses • Browse someone's statuslog profile • Response to statuses • Discover interesting addresses in the omg.lol directory
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Beluga at Free against status.log's $2.99. status.log's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1) and chart position (#131 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, 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
Beluga is free to download; status.log costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beluga against 5.0 for status.log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: status.log has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Beluga ships an update every 6 months, status.log every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Beluga | status.log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #131 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Blimp | 433 Labs |
Customer experience
Beluga
status.log
In-app purchases
Beluga
No in-app purchases
status.log
No in-app purchases
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