Comparison

Pixelfed vs Concept

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pixelfed

Share your photography with a community that values creativity, authenticity, and privacy. This app offers an ethical alternative to mainstream social media, giving users control over their content and data.

Highlights
  • Ad-free photo sharing
  • Privacy-focused
  • User content control
  • Authentic community
  • Ethical social media alternative
Features
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Share your photography with a community that values creativity, authenticity, and privacy. Pixelfed is the ethical alternative to traditional social media platforms, putting you in control of your content and data.

About

Concept

Connect with other creatives to pitch projects, find collaborators, and showcase your work. This platform supports creative growth through networking and shared vision for filmmakers, artists, designers, and more.

Highlights
  • Showcase your work with a portfolio
  • Pitch projects and find collaborators
  • Discover and apply for creative opportunities
  • Explore a curated directory of local creatives
  • Connect and chat with potential collaborators
  • Track project and application progress
Features
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Concept is where creative projects come together. Create projects, build a phonebook, run your work in one home base. Your moving studio space to plan, organize, and bring your ideas to life with the people you trust. What you can do on Concept: • Create projects - set up a project for any piece of work - music videos, photoshoots, commercials, events and more as your source of truth • Build your team - invite your crew and collaborators, confirm who's in, and assign positions so everyone knows their part • Keep it all together - add the timeline, links, notes, checklists, files, photos, videos, and audio right on the project, organized into sections your team can find • Grow your phonebook - save your creative contacts, sort them into lists, and share an invite link so people can add themselves to keep it building. • Message directly - talk with collaborators, share photos and files, and get notified when something needs you • Showcase your work - build a profile to highlight work, skills, and where you’re based • Run your studio - create a studio for yourself, company, or collective to brand your work and create a shared resource Creatives today do it all: starting projects, leading teams, and building networks. Concept is built to be flexible, making it easy to run your creative work and keep your people plugged in with you, project to project.

Screenshots

Pixelfed4 screens
Concept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Concept at 100% against Pixelfed's 47%. Concept also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Pixelfed's advantage is ratings volume (552 vs 19). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Concept holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixelfed has 552 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Pixelfed's written reviews are positive against 100% of Concept's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixelfed ships an update every 4 weeks, Concept fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pixelfed versus Concept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelfedConcept
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (552 ratings)5.0 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings552 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB46 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDaniel SupernaultPassion Collective LLC

Customer experience

Pixelfed

All ratings552 ratings
Positive77.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews253 reviews
Positive47.0%
Neutral14.2%
Negative38.7%

Concept

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pixelfed

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to post photos or send DMs
  • Inconsistent heart/like behavior
  • Crashes and freezes on app launch
  • Incompatibility with certain servers

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Video support
  • Improved collections/albums management
  • Seamless onboarding and server selection
  • Better notifications and interaction tracking

Concept

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pixelfed

No in-app purchases

None

Concept

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixelfed free?
Pixelfed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Concept free?
Concept is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pixelfed or Concept?
Concept is rated higher. Pixelfed averages 4.2 out of 5 from 552 ratings, while Concept averages 5.0 from 19 ratings.
Do Pixelfed or Concept have ads?
Neither Pixelfed nor Concept shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixelfed or Concept?
Pixelfed ships an update every 4 weeks, and Concept fortnightly. Most recently, Pixelfed was updated on October 18, 2026 and Concept on October 8, 2026.

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