Applaz vs Backpack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Applaz
A social media platform for writers to publish their stories and connect with others. Users can create and share notebooks, follow friends and influencers, and discover content based on their interests. The app facilitates daily updates and private messaging.
- Publish notebooks with writing and photos
- Create private notebooks
- Live messaging in private chats
- Follow content creators
- Search community for interests
- Daily updates and entries
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Share today's stories. Applaz is a social media app for writers that enables notebooks to be published. Update your notebooks daily by creating new entries. Read what others are up to, connect with friends, and follow influencer's journeys. Applaz is the place for when inspiration strikes. DISCOVER • Applaz opens right to the newsfeed — find out what your friends are writing about • Create your notebooks with writing and photos and publish on your profile! • Keep some notebooks to yourself, and have private notebooks only you can see CONNECT • Keep up with friends and content you love with live messaging in private chats • Follow content creators you love and share in their journey SHARE • Document your journey multiple times per day in different notebooks • Search the Applaz community for notebooks about your interests • Be the first to see what your friends are up to
Backpack
This social media app focuses on sharing curated moments with a limited number of items each week. Content resets weekly, encouraging intentional sharing without follower counts or endless scrolling. Connect with friends through a private feed and discover nearby users.
- Limited item slots per week
- Weekly content reset
- No follower counts
- Friends-only feed
- Nearby user discovery
- Curated weekly snapshots
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Backpack is a small, friendly place for sharing a few of the little things that represent you and your daily life. Pack your slots with music, photos, movies, books, thoughts and more, and keep adding all week. Add your friends and you'll see what they're carrying too, and anything of theirs you love, you can repost into your pocket. Then every week your backpack wipes clean and you start fresh with whatever you're into next. What's inside: - Slots to pack with music, photos, GIFs, thoughts, links and more - A pocket for reposting what your friends packed - A quiet, friends-first feed with no follower counts and no algorithm - A fresh start every week, at the same time for everyone No follower counts to chase. No endless scroll to steal your time. No algorithms or "influencers" or incessant content to consume. Just a concise, honest snapshot of your week that you curate intentionally, and share with the friends who are actually part of your life. Pack your slots and share your own real-life inventory! Terms of Use: https://mybackpack.lol/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://mybackpack.lol/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Applaz at none against Backpack's 2. Applaz also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Backpack's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Backpack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Applaz asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Applaz against 5.0 for Backpack. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backpack has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Applaz ships an update every 3 days, Backpack weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Applaz | Backpack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Whirlpost | Jared Heath Defriese |
Customer experience
Applaz
Backpack
In-app purchases
Applaz
No in-app purchases
Backpack
- Backpack+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- Backpack+ Yearly$29.991 Year
