Loop vs Join Impact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Matchmaking through friends
- Request introductions
- Event-based groups
- Location-based groups
- Community matching
- Professional matchmaker integration
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Loop | Join Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1K ratings) | 4.8 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LOOOPMEIN INC. | Emissary |
Customer experience
Loop
Join Impact
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
Loop
- 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
- 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
Join Impact
No in-app purchases









