Comparison

Passboards vs Throwback by Loop

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

Head to head
About

Passboards

This app offers a collaborative platform for sharing events, experiences, and ideas. Create shared 'boards' with up to 100 contributors, post unlimited media in original quality, and connect with friends and family in a more creative and unrestricted way.

Highlights
  • Collaborative boards with up to 100 contributors
  • Unlimited media posting
  • Original quality image export
  • Public and private board options
  • Activity-based feed
  • Direct sharing to Instagram stories
Features
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Passboards is where your people keep their moments together. Start a board for the trip, the wedding, the season, the Tuesday that turned into something, and add the people who were there. Everyone posts to the same place — photos, videos, the songs that played, and the words worth keeping — so it lands in one beautiful album instead of six camera rolls and a group chat that scrolled past it weeks ago. BOARDS • Public, or private to the people you add. • Up to 100 members per board. You choose who can post, who can invite, and who helps run it. • Up to 15 photos and videos in a single post, with a title, a caption, a place and tagged friends. • Every photo shown in its own shape, on a page that takes on the colours of the board's cover. • A built-in editor for filters and adjustments that never touch your original. MUSIC • Share a song, album or playlist from Spotify or Apple Music, and play a 30-second preview right in the feed. • Open anything in your music app with one tap, or share to Passboards straight from Spotify or Apple Music. WRITE • Post a quick note or a long-form essay, with headings, quotes, lists and links. • Drafts save as you go, and essays open in a full-screen reader made for reading. CLUBS • A home for a group that keeps meeting: a team, a class, the friends you see every week. Group chat, events with RSVPs, announcements, and a board for every gathering. • Every club has its own mark and a memorable address, so similar clubs never blur together. • Share your posts with a club, and its members see them in their feed and the club's Tagged section. • Public or invite-only, up to 100 members, with an invite link the host controls. • Looks let you set the club's theme, type and effects. PEOPLE • Follow friends, or keep your profile private and approve requests. • A home feed of what your people are up to, and Explore for finding more. • Find friends already here from your contacts. Matching uses hashes made on your phone; the numbers and addresses themselves never leave it. • Like, comment, save, mention, and message. MESSAGES • One-to-one conversations and club chats, with reactions and read receipts you can turn off. Send any post, board or profile straight into a chat. PHOTOS AND VIDEO THAT LOOK RIGHT • Tap any photo or video to open it full screen and swipe through the whole collection. • Photos are kept sharp at full-screen size; video plays at 720p, up to three minutes a clip. • Location and device details are stripped from every file you upload. Where a photo was taken is never shown unless you add a place yourself. • A Highlights widget brings your favourite moments to your Home Screen. YOUR ACCOUNT • Sign up with an email. No ads. Delete your account any time from Settings. Free on iPhone, for iOS 26 and later. Support: support@passboards.com Terms of Service: https://www.passboards.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.passboards.com/privacy-policy

About

Throwback by Loop

This app offers a weekly dose of nostalgia, prompting users to share childhood and teenage photos every Thursday. Outside of Thursdays, users can connect with friends and send anonymous 'Boosts'.

Highlights
  • Weekly photo prompts
  • Share childhood memories
  • Send anonymous 'Boosts'
  • Connect with friends
  • Nostalgia-focused feed
Features
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Throwback is your new weekly dose of nostalgia. Are you tired of the same old Instagram feed filled with influencers and their #sponsored posts? Well, Throwback is here to take you back to a simpler time when the only thing you had to worry about was what to wear to your friend's Sweet 16. But here's the catch: Throwback is only open for business on Thursdays. Not kidding. If you're looking for more daily doom scrolling, look elsewhere. Don't worry, the rest of the week you can still add friends, and even send your friends uplifting 'Boosts' (anonymous push notifications to brighten their day!). Each Thursday, we give you a new prompt to take you down memory lane and post pictures of your childhood, those awkward teenage years, or that one time you wore overalls unironically. With Throwback, you'll finally have an excuse to dig through your old photo albums and relive the good old days. So, mark your calendars and get ready to throw it back with us every Thursday. (But don't blame us if your mom starts calling you more often because you're posting pictures of her haircuts from the 90s.) ---------- App made by humans who are always looking for feedback (follow us on Twitter @loopsocialinc), description made by AI which doesn't much care, don't @ us if it's cheesy.

Screenshots

Passboards4 screens
Throwback by Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Throwback by Loop at 16.0 against Passboards's 26.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Passboards against 4.9 for Throwback by Loop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Passboards ships an update every 6 days, Throwback by Loop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Passboards versus Throwback by Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassboardsThrowback by Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better4.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB99 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPassboards, Inc.Loop Social Inc.

Customer experience

Passboards

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Throwback by Loop

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Passboards

No in-app purchases

None

Throwback by Loop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Passboards free?
Passboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Throwback by Loop free?
Throwback by Loop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Passboards or Throwback by Loop?
Passboards is rated higher. Passboards averages 5.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Throwback by Loop averages 4.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Passboards or Throwback by Loop have ads?
Neither Passboards nor Throwback by Loop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Passboards or Throwback by Loop?
Passboards ships an update every 6 days, and Throwback by Loop weekly. Most recently, Passboards was updated on October 6, 2026 and Throwback by Loop on September 25, 2026.

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