Comparison

Ribbon vs thingz

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

Head to head
About

Ribbon

This app simplifies social planning by allowing users to see friends' events, search for activities and people, and merge personal calendars with social engagements. It helps manage invites, create new hangouts, and RSVP to events.

Highlights
  • Plan events with friends
  • See friends' events
  • Search events and people
  • Merge calendars
  • Manage event invites
  • Create hangouts and trips
  • RSVP to events
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Plan Together. Be Together. Ribbon makes it easier to plan with friends. Events: See your friends' plans and events you care about. Search: Search events, venues, friends, and people. Calendar: Merge your phone calendar with your social calendar. Notifications: Manage invites to events, hangouts, and trips. Favorites: Prioritize your favorite music artists, festivals, teams, etc. Create: Create trips and hangouts; and RSVP to events.

About

thingz

Organize and rediscover your saved content from various apps and websites. Easily share recommendations with friends and discover what they're saving. Never forget a great find again.

Highlights
  • Centralized saving from multiple sources
  • Automatic organization of saved content
  • Content resurfacing at opportune times
  • Easy sharing of recommendations
  • Discover friends' saved content
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Welcome to thingz. Most of what you save gets lost. That restaurant you wanted to try. That product you meant to buy. That idea you swore you'd remember. Buried in screenshots, saved posts, and browser tabs. Rediscover what you save with thingz. Find it when it matters and recommend what works with the people you trust. How it works: — Save from anywhere: Capture places, products, videos, links, and ideas from the apps you already use — Stay organized automatically: Saves are sorted into searchable collections, no filing required — Create from real experiences: Turn a place, product, or moment you've actually tried into a recommendation worth sharing — Add context: Save notes, photos, and details so you remember why something mattered when you come back to it — Find it when you need it: Your Loop resurfaces what you saved at the right time — Recommend what works: Share places, products, and experiences you've tried and loved Save it. Try it. Recommend it. Built on real experiences, ready when you need them.

Screenshots

Ribbon4 screens
thingz4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ribbon and thingz both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 94% of Ribbon's written reviews are positive against 58% of thingz's. Ribbon also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). thingz's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (768 vs 65). On price, rating, ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ribbon against 4.8 for thingz. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: thingz has 768 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Ribbon's written reviews are positive against 58% of thingz's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ribbon ships an update every 6 weeks, thingz every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ribbon versus thingz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRibbonthingz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (65 ratings)4.8 (768 ratings)
Positive reviews93.7% of reviews — better57.9% of reviews
Number of ratings65768 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB283 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRibbon Labs, Inc.Likepost

Customer experience

Ribbon

All ratings65 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive93.7%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.8%

thingz

All ratings768 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral15.8%
Negative26.3%

Bugs and requests

Ribbon

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Facebook login required
  • Limited city selection

Requested features

4 requests
  • Option to sign up with email/username
  • Wider selection of cities
  • More friends to adopt the app
  • New features and updates

thingz

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ribbon

No in-app purchases

None

thingz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ribbon free?
Ribbon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is thingz free?
thingz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ribbon or thingz?
Ribbon and thingz are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 65 and 768 ratings respectively.
Do Ribbon or thingz have ads?
Neither Ribbon nor thingz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ribbon or thingz?
Ribbon ships an update every 6 weeks, and thingz every 8 days. Most recently, Ribbon was updated on October 15, 2026 and thingz on October 19, 2026.

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