Comparison

Rocky vs zostr

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

Head to head
About

Rocky

This app connects users with brands to create and share user-generated advertising content. Users can monetize their creativity by submitting videos and images, and brands can discover new talent and shape their identity through community participation.

Highlights
  • Create ad content for brands
  • Share brand stories
  • Monetize creativity
  • Explore brand profiles
  • Submit video and image content
  • Participate in brand identity
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I am Rocky. You are Rocky. We are Rocky. With Rocky, the future of advertising is in our hands. Rocky is THE destination for user generated advertising content; an interactive marketing marketplace. A true partnership between brands and their fans.  CREATE open-ended ad content for your favorite brands. SHARE your stories through the lens of the brands and the products you love. MONETIZE your creativity. EXPLORE brand profiles, EDUCATE yourself about products, and download brand sponsored digital assets to use in your open-ended ad content. You are in CONTROL. No scripts. No agencies. No red tape. Just community, ideas, participation, and monetization.  SUBMIT video and image content within the Rocky app, gaining an immediate and direct audience with your favorite brands. SUPPORT brands you identify with and PARTICIPATE in shaping brand identity. CONSUME and REACT to Rocky content for entertainment and inspiration; DISCOVER new brands in the process. THE INTERNET IS UNDEFEATED.

About

zostr

This app offers a public social feed integrated with secure Zcash payments. Your identity is tied to your .zcash name, and direct messages are end-to-end encrypted. Payments are shielded and handled by your own wallet, with no ads or trackers.

Highlights
  • Public social feed
  • End-to-end encrypted direct messages
  • Shielded ZEC payments
  • .zcash name identity
  • Nostr network integration
  • Key management on device
Features
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zostr is a public social app for the Zcash community, built on the open Nostr network. Your identity isn't an email or a phone number. It's your own .zcash name. PUBLIC SOCIAL, SHIELDED MONEY Posts, profiles, and who you follow work like any public feed. The one thing that's genuinely private is money: send shielded ZEC to any name, protected exactly as it is in any Zcash wallet. We won't pretend the whole app is private just because it's built on Zcash. The honest breakdown: • Posts, profile, and follows — public • Direct messages — end-to-end encrypted (NIP-17) • Payments — shielded YOUR NAME IS YOUR IDENTITY You're alice.zcash, not an account on a server. Your .zcash name is verified across the Nostr network (NIP-05), so other Nostr apps recognize you too. zostr is a window onto an open network, not a walled garden. SHIELDED PAYMENTS, NOT ZAPS Send shielded ZEC to any name straight from a post or profile. zostr resolves the name to a Zcash address and hands a standard payment request to your own wallet. It never holds, routes, or sees your funds. No custodian, no middleman. KEYS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Your signing key is generated on your device and encrypted with your passphrase. The secret never leaves your iPhone, and your .zcash name is your recovery root. Unlock with your passphrase or Face ID. NOTHING TO LEAK No ads. No trackers. No analytics. No email or phone number required to be someone on zostr. BUILT ON OPEN PROTOCOLS Identity is ZcashNames. Transport is Nostr. Messages use NIP-17. Payments use ZIP-321 to your own wallet. If zostr disappeared tomorrow, your identity, posts, and follows would still live on the network and work in other Nostr apps. That's the point. zostr is independent: no ads, no token, no investors. Just an effort to make .zcash names a real identity, and to make sending shielded ZEC to a person as easy as mentioning them. Public social. Shielded money.

Screenshots

Rocky4 screens
zostr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: zostr at 5.0 against Rocky's 4.3. Rocky's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

zostr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rocky has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rocky versus zostr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRockyzostr
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (46 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB65 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperRockyAds LLCPrinciple Zero Labs LLC

Customer experience

Rocky

All ratings46 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%

zostr

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

Bugs and requests

Rocky

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App won't scroll down for registration
  • Unable to complete registration

Requested features

2 requests
  • More challenges
  • Transparent prequalification process

zostr

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Rocky

No in-app purchases

None

zostr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rocky free?
Rocky is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is zostr free?
zostr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rocky or zostr?
zostr is rated higher. Rocky averages 4.3 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while zostr averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Rocky or zostr have ads?
Neither Rocky nor zostr shows ads.

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