Comparison

Buddy List Messenger vs Mongkolka

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Mongkolka

Features
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Screenshots

Buddy List Messenger4 screens
Mongkolka3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mongkolka at Free against Buddy List Messenger's $5.99. Mongkolka also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

Mongkolka 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buddy List Messenger ships an update weekly, Mongkolka every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Buddy List Messenger versus Mongkolka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddy List MessengerMongkolka
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB56 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSpark Limited Liability CompanyPengleng Hok

In-app purchases

None

Buddy List Messenger

No in-app purchases

None

Mongkolka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buddy List Messenger free?
Buddy List Messenger costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mongkolka free?
Mongkolka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Buddy List Messenger or Mongkolka have ads?
Neither Buddy List Messenger nor Mongkolka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buddy List Messenger or Mongkolka?
Buddy List Messenger ships an update weekly, and Mongkolka every 3 days. Most recently, Buddy List Messenger was updated on October 24, 2026 and Mongkolka on October 24, 2026.

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