Microsoft Loop vs Rondin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microsoft Loop
This app facilitates collaborative thinking, planning, and creation across devices. It brings together teams, content, and tasks, allowing users to capture ideas, manage projects, and communicate in real-time. Seamlessly integrate with existing tools for a unified workflow.
- Co-creation experience
- Content and task management
- Idea capture and task lists
- Project workspace
- Real-time commenting and reactions
- Customizable notifications
- Cross-Microsoft 365 component editing
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Think, plan and create together with Loop on the go. Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content and tasks across your tools and devices. Designed for the way you work, Loop can help you think, plan, and create together. • Capture ideas, create task lists, and insert photos to your Loop pages to express your thoughts. • Bring all your project content into a Loop workspace to help your team focus on what matters. • Comment and react in the app to quickly collaborate on the go. • Get only the notifications you care about and jump right back into what needs the most attention. • Edit and share Loop components across Microsoft 365 to help your team be on the same page in one place. To get started, download Loop, and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the End User License Terms for Microsoft Loop. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions. Privacy terms: https://aka.ms/privacy Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms, see “License Agreement” under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.
Rondin
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Rondin keeps photos, notes and reminders organized by where they happened. Not by date, not by chat: by place. Leave yourself a note at a place and it waits there for you. Or set an arrival alert: write "Buy the oranges Liza recommended," pick your grocery store, and the next time you arrive your phone shows it to you, even with the app closed. Your places take just seconds to save, so there is no setup each time you want to record something. Need it every time? A recurring alert returns on each visit until the date you choose. The photos you took last time are right there when you open the app on your return. Pin the places that matter to you: a client property, a job site, a rental, a trailhead, the restaurant you keep meaning to go back to. Then shoot with the camera you already use. Rondin reads the location saved in each photo and files it to the right place. No sorting, no albums, no remembering. Open the app on site and that place is already in front of you: every photo, video and note you ever filed there, newest first, grouped by visit. A note written at 2 AM at a client property stays with that client forever. WHAT IT DOES • Places: a spot on the map with a radius, named and abbreviated however you like. • Arrival alerts: write a reminder, pick one of your places, and your phone shows it to you when you get there, even with the app closed. Once, or on every visit until a date you choose. They reach your Apple Watch too, like any iPhone notification. • Photos and videos, filed automatically. Turn on the photo library integration and new geotagged shots file themselves to your places. Or import by hand, any time, with no permission at all. • Notes pinned to places, with a flag for anything that needs attention. • Visit logging, optional: arrivals and departures stamped per place, for an automatic record. • A feed for each place, or across all of them, in the layout you prefer. • Search across everything you have written. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Rondin has no subscriptions, no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no in-app purchases. Your records live on your phone and in your own iCloud, encrypted by Apple, where the developer cannot see them. Photo library access is optional, and when you allow it the app opens a picture only if its location falls inside one of your places; nothing else is ever looked at. Your location is never tracked: only if you turned it on, iOS tells the app when you cross into or out of a place you defined, and when you have moved a long way, so it can choose which of your places to watch. Those positions are used on the spot and never stored. Rondín is the Spanish word for a watchman's round. The app began at ISG Security Services, a patrol company in Dallas, where every shift produces dozens of photos across client properties and every useful question meant digging through a camera roll. The same idea turned out to serve anyone whose work or life happens at places worth remembering. Requires iOS 26 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rondin at none against Microsoft Loop's 4. Microsoft Loop's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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. Microsoft Loop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Rondin asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Microsoft Loop | Rondin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | Jim Willits |
Bugs and requests
Microsoft Loop
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on certain workspaces
- Inability to save new content
- Formatting issues with code blocks
- Keyboard issues and cursor jumping
- Inconsistent theme and UI behavior
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to duplicate pages
- Improved handwriting and whiteboard support
- Export/copy to Word or PDF
- Offline functionality
- Better access management and guest collaboration
Rondin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microsoft Loop
- Microsoft 365 Personal$9.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Personal$99.991 Year
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- Microsoft 365 Family$129.991 Year
Rondin
No in-app purchases








