Comparison

Told vs Skoop

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

Head to head
About

Told

Create private, visually rich journals to capture everyday life with loved ones. Invite others to contribute entries, organize memories by custom covers, and receive reminders to maintain consistency. It's designed for shared memory-keeping, not social validation.

Highlights
  • Create private shared journals
  • Invite others to contribute entries
  • Add up to 10 photos/videos per entry
  • Customizable journal covers and titles
  • Reminders for consistent journaling
  • Visual feed of all journal entries
  • Commenting on entries
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Told: Shared Journals for Your Real Life Told is a beautifully visual, shared journaling app that helps you capture everyday life with the people who matter most. Create a private Space for your family, your kids, your book club—the sky's the limit—and fill it with journals, short videos, and prompts you answer together. Told is easy to use, visually rich, and built for memory-keeping together. Spaces: a home for your people A Space is where a group of people keep memories together. Each Space holds its own journals, Bits, and Prompt Packs, and only its members can see inside. You can: Invite people with a link or directly, and choose their role See who's in the Space and manage members anytime Transfer ownership when life changes Swipe between the Space's activity and its journals Keep a personal Space that's just yours Create a journal for anything Start a journal with a title, description, and custom cover image. Use it for a child's milestones, your family updates, a shared trip, or your personal reflections. Each journal can have: A cover photo Custom title and description Reminders to prompt you to post Members who can view or add entries Journals live inside a Space, and you can move one to another Space with all its entries intact. Bits: short videos for your Space Record a quick video from either camera and everyone in the Space sees it right away. A glowing ring at the top of your feed shows when there's something new to watch, so you can catch up in seconds. Bits are temporary, made for the small moments that don't need to last forever. Prompt Packs: never stare at a blank page Browse Prompt Packs from the Search tab and add one to a Space. Start with the fall collection: Cozy Season Bucketlist, Spooky Halloween Bucketlist, and The Harvest Table. Answer a prompt and it becomes an entry titled by the question, so you can see how everyone answered the same one. Your answers also collect on a Prompts page on your profile. Add entries in seconds Each entry can include: Photos or videos An optional title and caption Just text, just photos, or both A date Entries can be posted to one or more journals at once. No need to worry about the timing—Told pulls the actual photo date so your memories stay in order. Tap any entry to open it in full, with a full-screen viewer for photos and videos. Your home feed See everything from all your Spaces in one place: a two-column visual feed that updates with each new post, with your Spaces lined up along the top for quick access. Your journals at a glance Open any Space to see its journals in a clean grid, each with its cover image, title, entry count, and last update. Tap a journal to open a visual timeline of all its posts in chronological order, with the title, description, member and entry counts, and a streak counter showing how many days in a row it's been updated. Thoughtful features for consistency Reminders help you make journaling a habit Streaks keep you motivated Comments and reactions let you respond to friends' entries Notifications keep you up to date on comments, reactions, invites, and new Bits Share a single entry with a public link, and revoke it whenever you like Media date auto-fill keeps your timeline accurate without extra work Told is not about followers or likes. It's not for everyone—it's for your people. Build your own small social space where you can remember, reflect, and share real life as it happens.

About

Skoop

This app offers a unique way to stay connected with friends by sharing updates and stories. It focuses on genuine connection over superficial interactions, allowing users to share 'skoops' with their chosen group and react to others' posts.

Highlights
  • Build your koop (friend group)
  • Share 'skoops' (updates/stories)
  • Reciprocal sharing for access
  • React to friend's skoops
  • Curated content
  • AI bot accounts
Features
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Highlights, Curated Content, Fabricated Stories, Ai Bot Accounts … What happened to staying connected with our friends? The problem with keeping in touch isn't a lack of social apps "connecting" us, it's timing. As we get older, it gets more difficult to make time for our individual interests and support our friends. We need a better way to get caught up when time allows so that we can be the friends we want to be. Welcome to Koop - Never worry again about schedules not lining up or being an inconvenience on your friends. Post updates to friends on your time and show up once, together. 1. Build your koop 2. Post skoops into a time capsule 3. At the end of a cadence, your friends can read your skoops as long as they've shared one with you 4. Respond to skoops so your friends know you've seen them Easy, right? The truth is, posting frequently is no match for posting thoughtfully. Take 5 minutes to let your friends know the latest skoop, and then put your phone down and live your life. We'll let you know when it's time to get caught up.

Screenshots

Told4 screens
Skoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Skoop at 5.0 against Told's 4.7. Skoop also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Skoop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Told ships an update weekly, Skoop every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Told versus Skoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToldSkoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better5
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB81 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTold LLCPenciv Inc.

Customer experience

Told

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Skoop

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Told

No in-app purchases

None

Skoop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Told free?
Told is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skoop free?
Skoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Told or Skoop?
Skoop is rated higher. Told averages 4.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Skoop averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Told or Skoop have ads?
Neither Told nor Skoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Told or Skoop?
Told ships an update weekly, and Skoop every 3 days. Most recently, Told was updated on October 25, 2026 and Skoop on October 24, 2026.

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