Comparison

Passboards vs Before Social

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. It all lands on one beautiful board 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. • Ten Passboards looks, plus Auto, and adjustments in a built-in editor that never touch your original. • Arrange a board's posts by dragging them, and position the cover photo. • Uploads keep going in the background, and pick up again on their own if the connection drops. GUESTS • Share a guest link or QR code for an event or a board with dates. Guests add photos from their browser, without the app, and you approve them before they show. • Choose when a board's photos show: as they're posted, or all at once at a time you pick. CLUBS • A home for a group that keeps meeting: a team, a class, the friends you see every week. Group chat, events, announcements, and a board for every gathering. • Club chat with up to 10 photos in a message, replies, polls, and Find a time to settle on a date. • Events with limited spots and a waitlist, RSVP approval, plus-ones, a cohost, a message to everyone going, and reminders a week and 2 hours before. • Repeating events every week, every 2 weeks or every month, and Subscribe to Calendar to keep a club's events in your calendar app. • A weekly club roll, a shared goal, and club recaps of what you did together. • Every club has its own mark, address and QR code. Hand your club to another member when it's time. • 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. 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. 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. Both show the latest when you come back. • 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. • Share a post or a board to your Instagram Story as a Passboards card. 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 today. Delete your account any time from Settings. Passboards is for adults (18+). 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

Before Social

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Right now, Before is only available in Berlin, but we're working hard to expand and reach more areas. Stick with us - there's more to come! -- Before isn't just an app—it's a new, health-focused way to connect. Before safely matches you with those you vibe with during sports. It's healthy, it's real, it's about those shared moments. And its fun to appreciate each other for the little and big achievements you reach doing your favorite sport. HEALTHY AND EXCITING >> Have fun exploring new sports venues and events. So you are passionate about your sport like yoga or bouldering? Find places and events where you can engage with like-minded people of the before community. This app is dedicated to Berlin only and we verify each venue before listing it. BETTER TOGETHER, WITH YOUR SAFETY IN MIND >> Check in and exercise while you control who sees you on the app later. Check in at venues and see who’s been there, too. And for added privacy, you can keeps your check-ins hidden from view. FIND YOUR MATCH >> Start chatting with people who mutually like you. So you like each other? Congratulations, from here it´s easy to break ice with Before. Start chatting, check out each others interests and meet again for a training if you like. --- Sports Meet Social With Before, find your next workout partner, your next challenge, or even your next cheerleader. It's not just about the sport—it's about building relationships that go the distance, supported by a platform that prioritizes your wellbeing. Download Before now, where every match starts with a shared passion for living actively and healthily.

Screenshots

Passboards4 screens
Before Social4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Before Social at 13.0 against Passboards's 26.0. On price 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Passboards versus Before Social: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassboardsBefore Social
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone — better—
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB87 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPassboards, Inc.THOMAS GNAHM

In-app purchases

None

Passboards

No in-app purchases

None

Before Social

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Passboards free?
Passboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Before Social free?
Before Social is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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