Community Gearbox vs Throwback by Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Community Gearbox
This social networking app facilitates resource sharing, co-ownership, and mobilization among trusted individuals and organizations. It aims to disrupt individual consumption by enabling users to manage and distribute items within their known circles.
- Resource sharing
- Co-ownership of items
- Inventory management
- Mobilize resources
- Trusted network sharing
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Committed to disrupting individual consumption - Community gearbox is a social, inventory management app that lets users and organizations share, co-own, and mobilize resources amongst people they know and trust.
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'.
- Weekly photo prompts
- Share childhood memories
- Send anonymous 'Boosts'
- Connect with friends
- Nostalgia-focused feed
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Throwback by Loop at weekly against Community Gearbox's every 3 weeks. Throwback by Loop also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Community Gearbox's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Community Gearbox against 4.9 for Throwback by Loop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 7 respectively.
Community Gearbox ships an update every 3 weeks, Throwback by Loop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Community Gearbox | Throwback by Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | 4.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dante Garcia | Loop Social Inc. |
Customer experience
Community Gearbox
Throwback by Loop
In-app purchases
Community Gearbox
No in-app purchases
Throwback by Loop
No in-app purchases
Questions
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