Comparison

Passboards vs Howly

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

Howly

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Our existence has transcended physical space. Freedom is part of our identity. Our autonomy makes us unique. Our nature lies in meeting each other. It is a central expression of who we are. We are part of a revolution. We are a new generation. We form Wolfpacks. We meet in Caves. We Howl loudly to set us apart from the crowd. Hȯwly gives you the power to connect and share with true freedom. Express yourself freely and immediately with Howlers around you. This is Hȯwly, to be your true self, in all dimensions of your identity, without limits, without boundaries, without constraints. Choosing how and where you want to be, meeting those who seek similar experiences or those who are entirely different, and uncovering new versions of yourself. Hȯwly is a map for you to choose your journey, your starting point. Share your opinions, rate a venue you are in, dive into fun group conversations, make others laugh, seek help or meet new people. Hȯwly allows you to: Communicate virtually with people who are in the same place as you, or virtually visit a venue to interact with people who are physically there. Use the City Map as a starting point for your entertainment plan or night out. For the first time, have a tool to optimize collective communications through the Cave Billboard! The best and latest content according to the members of the Cave is automatically selected and you can always view it. Stay in the loop and never miss a beat with Happening Now. Discover everything that's going down in the Caves of your city and stay updated on all the action. Howl to the entire Cave. As you engage and receive positive reactions to your content, your Howl Moon Bar fills up. Once it's full moon, you can share a temporary post that opens up to everyone in the Cave, no matter what. Organize your direct conversations and Wolfpacks easily with minimalist color tags. If you own a business or venue, you can subscribe as a Cave Host and connect in a radical new way with your clients and visitors. Receive relevant and effective advertising that is not generated based on the exploitation of your data.

Screenshots

Passboards4 screens
Howly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Howly at 13.4 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 Howly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassboardsHowly
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 iOS26.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB53 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPassboards, Inc.Cuyo Innovation Valley SA

In-app purchases

None

Passboards

No in-app purchases

None

Howly

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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