Beer With Me vs YapHive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beer With Me
This social app lets you share your current drinking status with friends, inviting them to join you. Easily check in your beverage or discover friends who are already out at a pub.
- Notify friends when drinking
- Invite friends to join
- Check in beverage
- Find friends on map
- Discover friends at pubs
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Beer With Me is a social application to notify your friends when you are drinking so that they can join. Just select your beverage of choice from the big drink button and check in or open the map to find some friends already at the pub.
YapHive
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YapHive is a private place to talk with the people you already know — a team, a club, a family, a training group, a crew. You get in by invitation, and that is the only way in. There are no public rooms, no strangers and no algorithm deciding what you see. HIVES A Hive is a private room. Nothing inside one is visible from outside it, and no Hive can see into another. In each Hive you wear a persona of your own: a name, a picture and a line about you that belong to that Hive alone. The same person can be "Sam" in one Hive and nobody at all in the next. YAPS A Yap is what you post — up to 500 characters, carrying four pictures or a video, a voice note, a poll. Reply to it, react to it, save the ones worth keeping. Address it to the whole Hive, or to a Swarm: a named group inside the Hive, so the five-a-side side of a club never has to mute the rest of it. CALENDAR A Yap can happen at a time. Give it a date and it becomes an event, with Going, Maybe and Can't underneath it and a roster of who answered what. Every event in the Hive lands on a shared calendar you can read by month, by week or by day. CHAT One to one or in a group, with pictures and voice notes, inside the Hive where you know each other. FEEDBACK SWARM Every Hive has a room for saying what's working and what isn't. Opening it puts you in it: you read what everybody else has said and add your own, filed under a category and answered in replies underneath, where it does not sink out of sight. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO RUN ONE Invite codes with a use count and an expiry. A noticeboard with read receipts. Roles, a member directory, and a handover. Reports from members, triaged in the app. QUIET BY DESIGN No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing about you is sold, because there is nobody to sell it to. YapHive is in English and German, and it follows the language on your account to every device you sign in on. YapHive is invitation-only: you will need a code from a Hive that has asked you to join. Minimum age 16. Privacy policy: https://yaphive.com/privacy Terms of use: https://yaphive.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: YapHive at every 3 days against Beer With Me's every 6 weeks. Beer With Me's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, 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.
Beer With Me ships an update every 6 weeks, YapHive every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer With Me | YapHive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (222 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 222 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beer With Me AB | Vorster Consulting GmbH |
Bugs and requests
Beer With Me
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on opening app
- Location showing incorrect city
- Drink options disappearing
Requested features
10 requests- Add seltzer/hard seltzer option
- Add mixed drink options (e.g. vodka soda, margarita)
- Allow custom drink entries
- Add photo sharing feature
- Implement messaging/chat between friends
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- Add status/reason for drinking
- Integrate with social media for easier friend adding
- Show drinking history/stats
- Add group/leaderboard features
- Extend drinking session time limit
YapHive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Beer With Me
No in-app purchases
YapHive
No in-app purchases





