Comparison

Passboards vs Firely

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

Firely

This platform allows users to create posts with images to showcase their participation in competitions. Others can view and like these posts, and winners are automatically determined when a set number of likes is reached.

Highlights
  • Create competition posts with images
  • View and like other users' posts
  • Automatic winner determination by likes
  • Competition participation showcase
  • Social interaction through likes
Features
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"Firely" Platform The competition platform, the first of its kind in the world, enables users to add posts with a picture that represents their participation in the competition, so that others can view and like these posts. The winner will be determined automatically if the number of likes specified in the competition is reached.

Screenshots

Passboards4 screens
Firely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Passboards at 100% against Firely's 50%. Passboards also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Firely's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Passboards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Passboards's written reviews are positive against 50% of Firely's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Passboards ships an update every 6 days, Firely every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Passboards versus Firely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassboardsFirely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better4.0 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1821 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB62 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPassboards, Inc.mohammed alkhamri

Customer experience

Passboards

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

Firely

All ratings21 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Passboards

No in-app purchases

None

Firely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Passboards free?
Passboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Firely free?
Firely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Passboards or Firely?
Passboards is rated higher. Passboards averages 5.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Firely averages 4.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Passboards or Firely have ads?
Neither Passboards nor Firely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Passboards or Firely?
Passboards ships an update every 6 days, and Firely every 3 days. Most recently, Passboards was updated on October 6, 2026 and Firely on October 6, 2026.

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