Buddy List Messenger vs Oomy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buddy List Messenger
Easily send mass messages to your contacts. Friends can choose to receive your updates via text or push notifications. Share your ideas directly with the founders.
- Send mass messages
- Push notification subscriptions
- Text message subscriptions
- Direct founder feedback channel
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A green dot next to a name. That's the whole idea. Buddy List brings back the one thing instant messaging got right and every app since has thrown away: you could look at a list and see who was actually there. Not who posted three hours ago. Who's around, right now. WHO'S AROUND Open the app and you have your answer before the screen finishes settling. Green means they're here. Amber means they stepped away. Every state carries a shape as well as a colour, so it reads the same if you can't tell green from amber. AWAY MESSAGES, IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING "brb, mom needs the phone." Set a status and it goes out to your buddies as a notification. Pick the font. Pick the colour. Six real typefaces, eight colours, and whatever you want to say in them. This is the part where the personality lives. FRIENDS AND FAMILY Group your people and collapse the ones you're not looking at. Each group shows how many are around out of how many there are. YOU CONTROL THE LIGHT Go invisible and you appear offline to everyone. Hide your presence and you stop seeing theirs — it works both ways, always, and no screen in the app can get around it. Auto-away marks you away after 24 hours. We're also deliberately imprecise. "A few minutes ago," never a timestamp. Nobody needs to know you looked. WHAT'S NOT IN HERE No feed. No algorithm. No recommended accounts, no follower counts, no strangers, no ads. There is nothing to scroll and nothing to catch up on. You add the people you actually talk to, and that's the whole app. Buddy List needs a phone number to find your friends, and a notification permission to tell you when they're around. That's it.
Oomy
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-- About Oomy -- Oomy offers a tracking journal of your daily activities — all from the privacy of your smartphone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Oomy at Free against Buddy List Messenger's $5.99. Oomy also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). Buddy List Messenger's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On ads, 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
Oomy is free to download; Buddy List Messenger costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Buddy List Messenger ships an update weekly, Oomy monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buddy List Messenger | Oomy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Spark Limited Liability Company | IVIRSE PTE. LTD |
In-app purchases
Buddy List Messenger
No in-app purchases
Oomy
No in-app purchases
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