Inksy vs YanChat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inksy
Create personalized journals with text, images, and drawings. Share your creations privately, with select groups, or publicly. Discover and follow other users, and embellish your journals with art from a dedicated store.
- Create custom journals
- Add text, images, and drawings
- Public and private sharing options
- Doodle store for art embellishments
- Sell your own art
- Follow users and journals
- Content filtering
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With Inksy you can make creative journals using text, images and drawings and share them however you want. You can add art from our Doodle store to embellish your journals or upload your own art to sell on the Doodle store yourself! You have complete control over who can see your journal, from keeping it totally private to sharing it with a small group of select people, or making it publicly available on our network for anyone to read. Want a daily habit tracker just for yourself? You can do that with Inksy. Want to make a scrapbook of your favorite baby milestones, but keep it limited to close family? You can do that with Inksy. Want to share your comedy, your fashion, or your dreams with the whole world? Go right ahead! Comment on and follow your favorite users or just the journals you like, it's up to you. You'll never miss updates from your favorites and easily avoid the content you DON’T want to see. It's social media without the social anxiety. Share your story. Be inspired. Skip the drama.
YanChat
This app provides a secure, private messaging platform for communities, organizations, and teams. Users join dedicated workspaces with invitation codes for authorized communication. It supports text, image, and voice messages in a multilingual interface.
- Private workspace access via invitation codes
- One-on-one messaging
- Group conversations
- Send text, images, and voice messages
- Multilingual interface
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YanChat is a multi-tenant private messaging platform. Each community, organization, or team has its own private communication space. Users join their designated private workspace using invitation codes issued by administrators, enabling secure communication with authorized members. Key Features Join a private workspace One-on-one messaging Group conversations Send text, images, and voice messages Multilingual interface YanChat — One invite. Private conversations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: YanChat at none against Inksy's 5. YanChat also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Inksy's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16). On price, ads and device support 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. Inksy sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. YanChat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inksy ships an update monthly, YanChat every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inksy | YanChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | INKSY, INC. | Hsin Wei Lin |
Customer experience
Inksy
YanChat
In-app purchases
Inksy
- Pack One$0.99
- Pack Two$1.99
- Pack Three$2.99
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- Pack Four$3.99
- Pack Five$4.99
YanChat
No in-app purchases









