Comparison

discourse vs Forum Copilot

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

Head to head
About

discourse

This platform facilitates organized online discussions and debates, offering a structured alternative to typical social media forums. Users can engage in moderated conversations, receive criteria-based feedback on their opinions, and compete to become the most popular panelist.

Highlights
  • Organized discussions
  • Limited panel size
  • Criteria-based feedback
  • Ranking and experience
  • Debate-style format
Features
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WHAT IS DISCOURSE? We're an online forum and debate platform that promotes deep, organized discussion. We're similar to platforms like Reddit and Clubhouse, but we approach online discussion from a modern perspective. ---------------------------------------------- WHAT MAKES DISCOURSE DIFFERENT? Online discussions on other apps and websites are disorganized, messy and 1-dimensional. You can spend an hour reading a discussion and not gain any real value: it's too easy to get lost in the crowd of voices yelling over each other. Discourse aims to solve this problem by organizing discussions more like formal debates. A limited panel participates in the topic while the audience rates their opinions on a variety of criteria instead of simple likes/dislikes. At the end of the discussion, we present the results and crown the most popular panelist. ---------------------------------------------- HOW CAN YOU BENEFIT FROM USING DISCOURSE? You go to the gym to improve your bodies, but what do you do to improve your minds? Reading books, watching documentaries and educating yourself is important. But without a platform to exercise what you've learned, you're losing half its value. Build and deepen your opinions by competing with conflicting perspectives on discourse. ---------------------------------------------- WHAT ARE OUR STANDOUT FEATURES? - Limited panel size - Criteria based feedback - Organized discussions (Opening, Comments, Closing) - Ranking and experience ---------------------------------------------- WHO BUILT DISCOURSE? Discourse is built by a solo-developer/founder. We're currently a company of 1 but are looking to grow into a team that can provide you with a valuable experience. Please support us on our journey.

About

Forum Copilot

Features
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Forum Copilot is one app for the forums you love that run XenForo. Every screen is made for the phone, not a website squeezed into a frame, and alerts reach you the moment someone replies. Forums about satellite TV, music, cars, games, wellness and more use Forum Copilot to stay with their members on the go. Read, reply, react and message in all of them, without juggling browser tabs. YOUR FORUMS, ONE HOME • The forums you use stay on Home, with their own logos • Add a forum by typing its address, or paste a link to any thread or post NEVER MISS A REPLY • Push notifications for replies, quotes, mentions, reactions and messages • Watch a forum or a thread, with email or alerts, as on the website • Alerts stay unread until you open them, with Mark all read THE WHOLE FORUM, MADE FOR A PHONE • Sections, sub-forums and threads, in light and dark mode • Latest, unread and watched threads; sort and filter any forum • Posts look as they do on the forum's website: formatting, quotes, code, tables, spoilers, images and video • Tags, thread prefixes, signatures and member titles, as the forum shows them • Questions show their solution, suggestions their score TAKE PART • Reply with formatting, photos and attachments • Start threads with a poll, tags, a thread type and the forum's own fields • React to posts, quote, edit and share • Direct messages with other members • See who's online and view member profiles, where the forum allows it YOUR ACCOUNT STAYS WITH THE FORUM • Sign in with your forum account, including two-step verification • Each forum keeps its own account; many forums can be read without signing in • Ignore members, and report posts to the forum's moderators • Moderators can approve and restore posts in place FOR FORUM OWNERS Install the Forum Copilot add-on on your XenForo forum and your members can use this app right away. Forum Copilot is open source, so you can also publish an app with your own forum's name and look. Forum Copilot is an independent app and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, XenForo Ltd. XenForo is a trademark of XenForo Ltd. Forum names and logos belong to their communities.

Screenshots

discourse4 screens
Forum Copilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

discourse and Forum Copilot are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
discourse versus Forum Copilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdiscourseForum Copilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB56 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperZainuddin QaziMolecorp Esports

In-app purchases

None

discourse

No in-app purchases

None

Forum Copilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is discourse free?
discourse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forum Copilot free?
Forum Copilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do discourse or Forum Copilot have ads?
Neither discourse nor Forum Copilot shows ads.

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