Comparison

Loop vs Join Impact

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

Head to head
About

Loop

Connect with new people through your existing social circle and shared communities. Discover potential matches by seeing who your friends know and requesting introductions. Facilitates connections based on events, locations, and shared interests.

Highlights
  • Matchmaking through friends
  • Request introductions
  • Event-based groups
  • Location-based groups
  • Community matching
  • Professional matchmaker integration
Features
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Loop is the social network for meeting and matchmaking through friends, events, and communities. On Loop, everyone plays matchmaker for their single friends. Singles can also see who their friends know and ask for intros through the app, removing any social friction and making matchmaking easy. In addition to meeting through friends, people on Loop can meet and matchmake through groups centered around events, locations, professional matchmakers, and other communities. Loop groups for coffee shops, gyms, alumni networks, or parties can help maximize the odds that singles connect with someone who they could have met in real life. Loop is free to download and use. Sign up, indicate if you’re single or just there to set up friends, invite your friends, and start suggesting life changing matches! Our app uses Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Join Impact

This platform helps users combat antisemitism and hate speech by facilitating social media posts. It offers curated content from credible sources on various topics, allowing users to easily share information across their social media accounts.

Highlights
  • Combat antisemitism and hate speech
  • Facilitates social media posting
  • Curated content from credible sources
  • Wide variety of timely topic categories
  • Post to own social media accounts
Features
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Impact is a non-profit advocacy platform that facilitates social media posting for people desiring to combat antisemitism and fight against hate speech. The free platform invites all users no matter their religious or political inclinations. Users can choose from a wide variety of timely topic categories, select content with sources identified, and post to their own social media accounts. Emissary curates social content from credible sources, making it readily available to individuals and organizations for mass distribution.

Screenshots

Loop4 screens
Join Impact4 screens

Verdict

The call

Loop and Join Impact both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Join Impact's written reviews are positive against 38% of Loop's. Join Impact also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 13). Loop's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 17). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Loop sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Join Impact asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Join Impact holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop has 1K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Loop's written reviews are positive against 100% of Join Impact's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loop ships an update every 6 weeks, Join Impact every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Loop versus Join Impact: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopJoin Impact
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1K ratings)4.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better17
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB12 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperLOOOPMEIN INC.Emissary

Customer experience

Loop

All ratings1,016 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative52.5%

Join Impact

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Loop

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes after recent updates
  • Registration screen issues on certain devices
  • Constant log-out problems
  • Unreliable location feature

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to communicate with matches
  • Improved search and filtering options
  • Notification system for match outcomes
  • Tools to help grow matchmaker groups
  • More detailed user profiles

Join Impact

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Loop

Subscriptions4
  • Loop Premium (1 Month)$29.991 Month
  • Loop Premium (3 Months)$74.993 Months
  • Loop Premium (6 Months)$119.996 Months
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  • Loop Premium (1 Year)$179.991 Year
One-time9
  • Premium Intro Request$9.99
  • Premium Match Accept$9.99
  • 2 Premium Match Accepts$14.99
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  • 2 Premium Intro Requests$14.99
  • 3 Premium Intro Requests$19.99
  • 3 Premium Match Accepts$19.99
  • Premium Group Unlock$19.99
  • 2 Premium Group Unlocks$34.99
  • 3 Premium Group Unlocks$49.99
None

Join Impact

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loop free?
Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Join Impact free?
Join Impact is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Loop or Join Impact?
Join Impact is rated higher. Loop averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Join Impact averages 4.8 from 17 ratings.
Do Loop or Join Impact have ads?
Neither Loop nor Join Impact shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loop or Join Impact?
Loop ships an update every 6 weeks, and Join Impact every 2 months. Most recently, Loop was updated on September 26, 2026 and Join Impact on July 8, 2026.

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