Kickstarter vs Slate Forums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kickstarter
Explore and support innovative projects across various creative fields. Discover groundbreaking ideas in games, technology, art, and more. Pledge to projects that inspire you and stay updated on their progress.
- Discover creative projects globally
- Pledge to projects
- Receive project updates
- Track backings
- Join a global creative community
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Discover, back, and bring bold ideas to life. The Kickstarter app connects you with groundbreaking projects across games, publishing, technology, comics, and film. Whether you’re passionate about design, gadgets, stories, or innovation, there’s something for everyone. Use the app to: • Browse creative projects from around the world • Pledge to projects that align with your passions • Stay in the loop with updates and reminders • Follow your backings in one place • Join a global movement that fuels ideas worth sharing Start discovering today and help the next big idea take off.
Slate Forums
This community app allows users to engage with the Slate Auto Truck forum. Browse forums, threads, and user profiles, or log in to post content and receive native push notifications for alerts and messages.
- Native push notifications
- Browse forum list
- Browse threads
- Search content
- Post threads/replies
- View and edit user profiles
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Community app for the Slate Auto Truck (Pickup & SUV) forum at Slateforums.com. Browse as a guest or log in to use native push notifications for alerts and conversation messages. Key Features: - Native push notifications for the same alerts as on the website - Browse forum list - Browse threads list - Search content - Post threads/replies - View alerts - Watch content - View user profiles - Edit profile - Report content This Slate Forums app and the Slateforums.com website are independent / privately owned and are not affiliated in any manner with Slate Auto
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Slate Forums at none against Kickstarter's shown. Slate Forums also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Kickstarter's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (59K vs 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Slate Forums holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kickstarter has 59K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kickstarter ships an update every 4 weeks, Slate Forums every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kickstarter | Slate Forums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (59K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #152 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kickstarter, PBC | JWKZ LLC |
Customer experience
Kickstarter
Slate Forums
Bugs and requests
Kickstarter
Reported bugs
5 issues- Explore tab broken in latest update
- Notifications not working correctly
- Activity feed not updating
- Issues with submitting surveys through the app
- Clunky UI, especially when updating pledges
Requested features
6 requests- Allow filtering backed projects by status (received, active, closed)
- Ability to follow creators directly in the app
- Improve comments section (threading, search, etc.)
- Add an archive/delete function for completed/cancelled projects
- Introduce a read/unread project status
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- Allow users to block problematic creators
Slate Forums
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kickstarter
No in-app purchases
Slate Forums
No in-app purchases
