Comparison

Beer With Me vs YapHive

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Notify friends when drinking
  • Invite friends to join
  • Check in beverage
  • Find friends on map
  • Discover friends at pubs
Features
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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.

About

YapHive

Features
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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

Screenshots

Beer With Me4 screens
YapHive4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Beer With Me versus YapHive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeer With MeYapHive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (222 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings222 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB51 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBeer With Me ABVorster 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
Show 5 more
  • 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

None

Beer With Me

No in-app purchases

None

YapHive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beer With Me free?
Beer With Me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is YapHive free?
YapHive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beer With Me or YapHive have ads?
Neither Beer With Me nor YapHive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beer With Me or YapHive?
Beer With Me ships an update every 6 weeks, and YapHive every 3 days. Most recently, Beer With Me was updated on November 10, 2026 and YapHive on October 31, 2026.

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