Comparison

Sociate vs Better Saturdays

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

Head to head
About

Sociate

Connect with the Global MBA Community to share insights, discover opportunities, and find jobs. Engage in forums, network with alumni in your target industry, and post job openings to a niche audience.

Highlights
  • MBA Community Forums
  • Alumni Networking
  • Job Board
  • Event Promotion
  • Targeted Audience Visibility
Features
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With Sociate App, you can tap into the collective knowledge, insights and opportunities of the Global MBA Community in the following ways: Forums: A perfect place to promote your upcoming MBA Conference, your new startup product or ask fellow MBAs for input on a new survey Members: The easiest way to find MBA Alums working in your target industry, screen candidates for a new role or simply bookmark alums and peers for future messaging Jobs: The best place to promote that new role in your team with the niche US MBA Community; With Forums and Jobs, MBA alumni and students have the flexibility to make their postings, events or jobs visible to 'All Schools' or Specific MBA Programs.

About

Better Saturdays

This app lets you see your friends' upcoming Saturday plans. Create your own Saturday activities and invite friends to join. It focuses on what's happening next, not past events.

Highlights
  • Create Saturday plans
  • Add location and start time
  • Option to add 'Join Me' button
  • See friends' upcoming activities
  • Shared social calendar
  • Focus on future events
Features
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Saturday: Know What Your Friends Are Doing Instagram is for the past. BeReal is for the present. Saturday is for the future. Most people have no idea what their closest friends are doing on the most fun day of the week — Saturday. That means missed hangouts, last-minute scrambling, and way too many weekends that just get… winged. Saturday fixes that. It’s a shared social calendar just for your friends' Saturday plans. Here’s how it works: You create a quick plan for your Saturday — anything from “brunch at Nina’s” to “hike then brewery” Add a location and start time Choose whether or not to add a “Join Me” button — this lets friends know you’re open to them coming along Your friends do the same On Friday, you open Saturday and boom — you see what everyone’s up to for tomorrow No public feeds. No followers. Just your real friends and real plans. It’s social media for what’s about to happen — not what already did. Saturday is totally free. There are no ads, no likes, no comments. Just a clean little loop of “What are you doing Saturday?” And maybe, “Mind if I join?”

Screenshots

Sociate4 screens
Better Saturdays4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sociate and Better Saturdays are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Sociate against 5.0 for Better Saturdays. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sociate ships an update every 2 weeks, Better Saturdays every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sociate versus Better Saturdays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSociateBetter Saturdays
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB32 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSociate IncNeighborhood Studios 1, LLC

Customer experience

Sociate

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Better Saturdays

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sociate

No in-app purchases

None

Better Saturdays

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sociate free?
Sociate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Better Saturdays free?
Better Saturdays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sociate or Better Saturdays?
Sociate and Better Saturdays are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Sociate or Better Saturdays have ads?
Neither Sociate nor Better Saturdays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sociate or Better Saturdays?
Sociate ships an update every 2 weeks, and Better Saturdays every 9 days. Most recently, Sociate was updated on September 8, 2026 and Better Saturdays on June 11, 2026.

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