Comparison

Regretful vs Debrief

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

Head to head
About

Regretful

Share humorous, anonymous stories and discover others' amusing regrets. Build your writing portfolio by saving your favorite posts to your account.

Highlights
  • Anonymous story posting
  • Explore user-submitted stories
  • Save favorite stories
  • Build writing portfolio
  • Discover funny regrets
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Regretful is an anonymous platform where you can quickly post funny stories anonymously and explore other fascinating and regretful stories. Save your favorite stories to your account and grow you writing portfolio!

About

Debrief

This app provides a private space for friends to capture and relive shared memories from nights out, trips, and events. Content is locked until a set reveal time, encouraging authentic sharing without pressure to perform. It focuses on real moments with real friends, bringing back the intimacy of shared experiences.

Highlights
  • Private group creation
  • Shared photo and video albums
  • Timed content reveal
  • Real-time capture, delayed sharing
  • Group memory reliving
Features
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The best part of a great night isn’t just the night itself. It’s reliving it together the next day. Debrief is a private social app for you and your friends to capture and relive nights out, trips, and events together. Create a Debrief. Invite the people who are there. Everyone captures photos and videos throughout the experience. Everything stays locked until the reveal. No pressure to post. No editing. No performing. Just real moments, shared with the people who were actually there. When your Debrief unlocks, everyone comes back to relive the experience together, complete with photos, videos, memories, and an automatically generated montage. Birthdays. Trips. Random nights out. Concerts. Festivals. Game days. DO NOT OPEN until the reveal. HOW IT WORKS • Create or pre-make a Debrief for your night, trip, or event • Invite your friends with a simple code or link • Capture photos and videos throughout the experience • Use Dual Camera to capture both sides of the moment • Everything stays locked until your set reveal time • Come back to the full Debrief and an automatic montage BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Social media made sharing moments public, performative, and focused on what everyone else is doing. Debrief is just for the people who were there. No feed. No followers. No strangers. No pressure to post. Just your people, your night, your memories. Capture it. Forget about it. Relive it together.

Screenshots

Regretful4 screens
Debrief4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Debrief at 41 against Regretful's 1. Debrief also leads on device support. Regretful's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Regretful against 4.9 for Debrief. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Debrief has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Regretful versus Debrief: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRegretfulDebrief
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (41 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings141 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB29 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperTimofey ObraztsovDebrief LLC (WI)

In-app purchases

None

Regretful

No in-app purchases

None

Debrief

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Regretful free?
Regretful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Debrief free?
Debrief is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Regretful or Debrief?
Regretful is rated higher. Regretful averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Debrief averages 4.9 from 41 ratings.

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