Phocal. vs True Offers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phocal.
A dedicated marketplace for camera enthusiasts to buy and sell photography equipment. It offers low fees and a purchase guarantee for a secure transaction experience.
- Camera gear marketplace
- Buy and sell equipment
- Lowest fees
- Purchase guarantee
- Mobile convenience
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Phocal is the first marketplace dedicated to camera lovers and available with convenience from your phone. With the lowest fees on the market and a purchase guarantee, Phocal is the best way to buy or sell your camera gear in 2023.
True Offers
This app connects local buyers and sellers for new or used goods and services. It facilitates direct negotiation with an internal messaging system and offers location-based searching. Users can create categorized posts with photos and save items to favorites for easy access.
- Local buying and selling
- Direct negotiation
- Internal messaging system
- Categorized posts
- Save to favorites
- Location-based search
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TrueOffers is a free online app to facilitate local marketing in the United States and Mexico for the sale and purchase of new or used goods, as well as services between its inhabitants. It allows direct negotiation between seller and buyer. It is possible to choose to show your personal data or not, guaranteeing security at all times. TrueOffers has an internal communication system in the App that allows you to ask questions privately (inbox) to the seller, in the same way the seller responds. The TrueOffers app allows users to search for a variety of products that can be bought and sold, as well as services to hire and offer. TrueOffers users can easily create their categorized posts to reach specific customers quickly, posting up to 5 photos of each product. TrueOffers has no limit on the number of ads posted per person. Users can post their exact location to have more sales, because the buyer can quickly locate them on a map. The TrueOffers app is very easy to use, users can save posts of interest to favorites to access them much faster and at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Phocal. at free against True Offers's ad-supported. Phocal. also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.1). True Offers's advantage is device support. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Phocal. against 5.0 for True Offers. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Phocal. | True Offers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Phocal. LLC | Alvaro Estrada |
Customer experience
Phocal.
True Offers
In-app purchases
Phocal.
No in-app purchases
True Offers
No in-app purchases
