Comparison

Vollyme vs Alive

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

Head to head
About

Vollyme

A community app for discovering content without algorithms. Connect with friends and groups through private messaging, photo and video sharing, and a social feed. Explore short-form videos and find communities using hashtags.

Highlights
  • Algorithm-free content discovery
  • One-on-one private messaging
  • Public and private group creation
  • Photo and video sharing
  • Short-form video feed
  • Hashtag-based group search
  • Save favorite posts
Features
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See what you want to see! VollyMe is the community app where you can discover what you actually want, no algorithms! On VollyMe, immerse yourself with easy messaging, easy to find groups, simple photo and videos of you and your friends, a place to watch short form videos, all on one app! Connect with your community * Talk privately with one on one messages. * Create a public or private group to connect with multiple people, share photos and videos, all with easy to use organization and admin features. * Search for public groups that match your interests using hashtags and connect with more people. Social * Share your latest news in the social feed. Upload your own photos and clips to keep your community in the know. * The social feed also gives you the ability to save your favorite posts and clips, and offers easy ways to find content you want to see in the discover and clips sections.

About

Alive

Features
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Alive is a social app for people who got tired of performing. No public feed. No followers. No algorithm. No AI. Just you, the moment you wanted to capture, and the friends you actually want to share it with. WHY ALIVE EXISTS Social media broke. We open a camera and we don't see the world anymore — we see the post. We compose for the audience before we've even noticed what's in front of us. We polish, we hesitate, we stop posting. Loneliness in a hyper-connected world. Alive flips the workflow. Capture first. Decide who sees it later. Share it with one person, or three, or your whole graph — your choice, every time. If you want, you can never share it at all, and the moment stays only on your phone. HOW IT FEELS — Open the app, hit the capture button. Voice. Photo. Video. Text on a colored background. Mix all four into one post if you want. — It saves to your own private feed first. Always. The decision of whether to share comes after. — When you do share, you pick the humans. Not "everyone." Not "followers." Specific friends, or a group you made (Family, Closest, Studio, Roommates — whatever you call yours). — Want a friend's friends to see this one too? Tap the link icon next to that one person, just on this one post. One hop only. No reposting. No virality machine. FRIENDS, NOT FOLLOWERS Connections on Alive are mutual. You ask. They accept. There are no asymmetric fans, no follow-back games. If you want out, you unfriend, mute, or block — and on Alive, block actually means block: pending requests cancel, shared posts disappear from their side, saved posts of yours leave their library. WHAT'S IN THE APP — Capture and posting in four mediums (text, voice, photo, up to 120-second video), in any combination. — A private feed that shows the moments you've shared and the moments shared with you, strictly chronological. Newest at the top. That's it. — Profiles with a Saved tab so anything beautiful can be kept. — 1:1 chat with the people you actually want to talk to. Persistent. Realtime. — A Founders Wall showing the first hundred thousand people who believed in this enough to back it. WHAT'S NOT IN THE APP — No AI. None. Not for captions, not for moderation, not for ranking. Your post is your post. — No public feed, no discovery, no "explore." — No streaks, no "you haven't posted in 3 days" nudges, no "on this day" memories that ambush you. — No ads. Founders get a lifetime ad-free guarantee. Even after the founder window closes, sharing will never cost money. — No third-party tracking. We're not selling your data, your face, or your friends list. PRIVACY YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE Posts you create but don't share never leave your device. We literally can't see them — they never touch our servers. When you do share, the media goes encrypted in transit and at rest. The owner of a post is notified if you screenshot it. THE FOUNDER OFFER One dollar a week. A lifetime ad-free guarantee, for as long as Alive operates the account. A Founder badge that shows up everywhere you appear in the app. We're using it to fund building something honest, without ad money pulling at the design. WHO ALIVE IS FOR Alive is for the quiet ones. The people who used to post and stopped. The ones who never started because nothing felt private enough. The ones who only really share in DMs anyway. We made this for you. Welcome home. Privacy Policy: https://www.onlyvibeapps.com/alive/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.onlyvibeapps.com/alive/terms Terms of use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vollyme4 screens
Alive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Alive at none against Vollyme's shown. Alive also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Vollyme's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Vollyme sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Alive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vollyme ships an update fortnightly, Alive weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Vollyme versus Alive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVollymeAlive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB55 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVollyme LLCAditya Gupta

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Vollyme

One-time4
  • Moon$5.99
  • Moons$9.99
  • Moon$14.99
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  • Moons$19.99
2 purchases

Alive

Subscriptions2
  • Early Members - Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Early Members - Monthly$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Vollyme free?
Vollyme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alive free?
Alive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vollyme or Alive have ads?
Vollyme shows ads; Alive does not.
Which is updated more often, Vollyme or Alive?
Vollyme ships an update fortnightly, and Alive weekly. Most recently, Vollyme was updated on November 3, 2026 and Alive on October 31, 2026.

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