Comparison

Giftit vs Lobbies

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

Head to head
About

Giftit

This app helps you discover what friends and family want for gifts without spoiling surprises. Create collaborative wishlists, track important dates, and get AI-powered suggestions to make gift-giving easy and enjoyable.

Highlights
  • AI-powered interest discovery
  • Anonymous friend messaging
  • Collaborative wishlists
  • Event tracking (birthdays)
  • Stress-free gift curation
Features
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Giftit is a social gifting app revolutionizing gift-giving. It features Sherlock, an AI chatbot that anonymously messages friends to discover their current interests without spoiling the surprise. The app allows users to create collaborative wishlists with friends and family, making it easy to curate and share desired gifts. Additionally, Giftit tracks important events like birthdays, ensuring you never miss an opportunity to give a thoughtful gift. It's an all-in-one platform designed to make gifting a delightful and stress-free experience⁠.

About

Lobbies

Connect with friends and track their gaming activity in real-time. Organize your entire game library, join game-specific communities, and share your own reviews and ranked lists. A privacy-focused social platform built for gamers.

Highlights
  • Real-time friend activity tracking
  • Organize Steam game library
  • Game-specific community lobbies
  • Write and share game reviews
  • Create ranked game lists
  • Follow trusted players
  • Privacy-first design
Features
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Lobbies is the social home for everything you play. Track your library, see what your friends are in right now, drop into a game's lobby to talk about it, and write the reviews and lists you actually want to read. PLAYING NOW Connect Steam once and Lobbies shows you what your friends are playing in real time. Helldivers, Hades, whatever they fire up — you see the green dot, they see yours. No more "send me a Discord screenshot." YOUR FULL LIBRARY Pull your entire Steam library in one tap. Every game gets a shelf — Now Playing, Finished, Backlog, Owned, Wishlist, Dropped. Track what you're actually getting through, look back on what you finished this year. A LOBBY FOR EVERY GAME Each game has its own lobby. Ask if the new patch broke the build that worked. Find a co-op partner for the DLC. Compare endings. Watch the lobbies for the games you care about and we'll tell you when something happens. REVIEWS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Rate games, write reviews, like and reply to other people's takes. None of that "great game 10/10" content farm energy. Hot takes encouraged. LISTS, RANKED Build ordered lists of the games you love and the games you swear by. "Top 10 soulslikes," "Comfort co-op for slow Saturdays," "Best indies of the year so far" — your own canon, laid out, ranked, and ready to defend. Browse other people's lists, upvote the ones you agree with, leave a comment when you don't, and find your next favorite game through the people who already love it. YOUR PEOPLE Follow players whose taste you trust. Mute or block whoever you don't. Private profile if you want the library without the audience. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DEFAULT No third-party advertising. No data sold. Delete your account whenever — we wipe it. Steam integration is opt-in and one tap to disconnect. Built by gamers for gamers.

Screenshots

Giftit4 screens
Lobbies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lobbies at none against Giftit's shown. Lobbies also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Giftit's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Giftit against 5.0 for Lobbies. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Giftit ships an update every 3 days, Lobbies every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Giftit versus Lobbies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGiftitLobbies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBloom Labs, IncorporatedLion Software, LLC

Customer experience

Giftit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lobbies

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Giftit

No in-app purchases

None

Lobbies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Giftit free?
Giftit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lobbies free?
Lobbies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Giftit or Lobbies?
Giftit and Lobbies are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Giftit or Lobbies have ads?
Giftit shows ads; Lobbies does not.
Which is updated more often, Giftit or Lobbies?
Giftit ships an update every 3 days, and Lobbies every 4 days. Most recently, Giftit was updated on September 29, 2026 and Lobbies on October 28, 2026.

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