Playhouse AR vs NERVE.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Playhouse AR
Discover curated real-life social events and hangouts tailored to your preferences. This app helps you reconnect with friends and find new social opportunities nearby, refreshing suggestions frequently.
- Personalized social map
- Curated IRL social experiences
- Frequent suggestion updates
- Find hangouts anytime, anywhere
- Reconnect with friends
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Playhouse is your personalized college social map, curating perfectly matched IRL social experiences every 5 minutes or 5 steps. Make social networks social again and find your perfect hangout, anytime, anywhere!
NERVE.
This app facilitates a live-streaming game where participants can stream exciting activities to viewers. Viewers gain premium access and can send custom donations to streamers. Receive notifications when players go live and embrace the opportunity to become famous.
- Live-streaming gameplay
- Viewer premium access
- Custom donations to players
- Live player notifications
- Become famous through streaming
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Are you a WATCHER or a PLAYER? NERVE is a livestream game. "Players" stream themselves doing exciting things to "watchers", who get premium access to streams and can send custom donations to players. You'll receive a notification whenever a player goes live. You can be fearless. You can be famous. Welcome to NERVE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Playhouse AR at none against NERVE.'s 16. Playhouse AR also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). NERVE.'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. NERVE. sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Playhouse AR asks for nothing beyond the download.
NERVE. holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 80 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Playhouse AR's written reviews are positive against 73% of NERVE.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Playhouse AR ships an update every 8 days, NERVE. every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Playhouse AR | NERVE. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (77 ratings) | 4.4 (80 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 73.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 80 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 611 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MAI Reality INC | Phi Vision, Inc. |
Customer experience
Playhouse AR
NERVE.
Bugs and requests
Playhouse AR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NERVE.
Reported bugs
5 issues- Phone number verification not sending code
- Error sending code
- App crashes on opening
- Shows everyone is offline, playing same clips
- App displays webpage and replays a single video
Requested features
3 requests- Fix phone number verification for UK users
- Allow bidding on stream times
- More streamers online more often
In-app purchases
Playhouse AR
No in-app purchases
NERVE.
- $1 Gift$0.99
- $1$1.00
- $2 Gift$1.99
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- $2$2.00
- $3 Gift$2.99
- $3$3.00
- $5 Gift$4.99
- $5$5.00
- $7$7.00
- $10 Gift$9.99
- $10$10.00
- $15 Gift$14.99
- $15$15.00
- $20$20.00
- $50$50.00
- $100$100.00
