Kickstarter vs Edify
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.
Edify
A social platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to study scripture together. It offers tools like magic search and a dictionary, and helps users understand their study style through a Gospel Persona feature.
- Social scripture study
- Friend activity feed
- Magic scripture search
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- Gospel Persona analysis
- Study style identification
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Edify is a social scripture study platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. See what your friends are studying every day! Use a suite of powerful tools to bolster your study: from magic scripture search, to Webster's 1828 Dictionary, Edify has everything you need to drink deeply from the Word of God. Get your Gospel Persona: what is your study style? Edify uses an advanced algorithm to help you know what your favorite topics are, and how you study.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Edify at 100% against Kickstarter's 32%. Edify also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Kickstarter's advantage is ratings volume (60K vs 16) and chart position (#174 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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.
Edify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kickstarter has 60K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Kickstarter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Edify's.
Kickstarter ships an update every 4 weeks, Edify every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kickstarter | Edify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (60K ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #174 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kickstarter, PBC | Kayson Argyle |
Customer experience
Kickstarter
Edify
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
Edify
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kickstarter
No in-app purchases
Edify
No in-app purchases
