Socie vs Octopus Ouder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Socie
Connect with your community through a private, centralized app. Share information, organize events, and foster collaboration among members of associations, businesses, and more. Manage your community's news, calendar, and discussions all in one place.
- Private community communication
- Event scheduling and sign-ups
- Centralized news and bulletin board
- Photo sharing
- Member list and profiles
- Polls and crowdfunding
- Group communication
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With Socie, the people in your community can safely communicate with each other, learn from each other, share passions and inspire each other. This is possible for sports and student associations, church congregations, businesses, healthcare organizations, municipalities, networking organizations, music and theater companies and more. You easily create and manage your own free community. Want to know quickly what tonight's program is, or when another tournament is being played? Sign up for a training or meeting. See the pictures of the last drink? Be automatically notified when your training is cancelled? With Socie you have all relevant information in one app on your own phone! Socie brings your community closer to the members, and the members closer to each other! Socie is one central place for your news, calendar, bulletin board, documents, photos, member list, polls, crowdfunding, group communication and much more. A community is private and only accessible to members. All members can manage and shield their own data. Each member can control what other members or groups can see on their personal profile page. On socie.eu you can quickly manage your own community. The basis is completely free and you choose how to set up the App yourself. Too cool right!
Octopus Ouder
This app provides real-time insights into children's activities at daycare. Parents can easily report absences, schedule swaps, and receive important updates via push notifications. Requires affiliation with SDB and login credentials from your childcare provider.
- Real-time activity insights
- Report absences
- Schedule day swaps
- Push notifications
- Direct communication
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De SDB Octopus OuderApp geeft realtime inzicht in wat de kinderen tijdens de opvang doen. Daarnaast kunnen ruildagen, ziekmelding, etc. direct worden doorgegeven. Via push berichten blijft u altijd op de hoogte. Om de OuderApp te gebruiken, moet uw kinderopvangorganisatie aangesloten zijn bij SDB. Ook heeft u een gebruikersnaam en wachtwoord nodig. Deze ontvangt u via uw kinderopvangorganisatie.
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Verdict
Socie and Octopus Ouder are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Socie against 4.7 for Octopus Ouder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.
Socie ships an update every 3 weeks, Octopus Ouder monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Socie | Octopus Ouder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Socie B.V. | SDB Groep |
Customer experience
Socie
Octopus Ouder
In-app purchases
Socie
No in-app purchases
Octopus Ouder
No in-app purchases









