HelloMate vs Showcase Co.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HelloMate
Reconnect with friends you haven't contacted in a while. This app helps you initiate conversations by randomly selecting contacts and tracking your attempts to send a "hello." Share your successes and challenge friends to do the same.
- Random contact selection
- Retake counter for sending 'hello'
- Share feature to boast and challenge
- Initiate conversations with old friends
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Use HelloMate to reach out to a friend you might not have spoken to for a while. Click the yellow button to pick a random person from your contacts. The retake counter will tell you how many times you cancelled to finally send a 'hello'. use the share button to boast to your friends that you sent a 'hello' and challenge them.
Showcase Co.
Organize and visually display all your saved content from various platforms in one place. Share your curated collections or collaborate with others on shared projects and information hubs.
- Store social media posts
- Save websites
- Organize YouTube videos
- Keep images and files
- Create visual displays
- Collaborate with friends
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Why bookmark content on all of these different platforms when you can store it all on Showcase? Store social media posts, websites, YouTube videos, images, files, text, and lots more to create visual displays of your work. Store it all together, share it with people or collaborate with friends to create anything from your 2025 moodboard to a shared hub of information about a topic. Terms of Service: https://showcase-app.co/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://showcase-app.co/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HelloMate at 5.0 against Showcase Co.'s 4.0. HelloMate also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HelloMate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of HelloMate's written reviews are positive against 67% of Showcase Co.'s.
HelloMate ships an update daily, Showcase Co. every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloMate | Showcase Co. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 215 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yechiel Vogel | Showcase Technologies Ltd |
Customer experience
HelloMate
Showcase Co.
In-app purchases
HelloMate
No in-app purchases
Showcase Co.
No in-app purchases
Questions
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