Ribbon vs thingz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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 — 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.
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.
| Parameter | Ribbon | thingz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (65 ratings) | 4.8 (768 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.7% of reviews — better | 57.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 768 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 283 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ribbon Labs, Inc. | Likepost |
Customer experience
Ribbon
thingz
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
Ribbon
No in-app purchases
thingz
No in-app purchases









