Ivy Dating vs Eclipse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ivy Dating
Discover genuine connections in real-world locations. This app facilitates spontaneous interactions by showing you who nearby is open to meeting. Move beyond endless swiping for authentic encounters.
- Real-world connection discovery
- Spontaneous interaction facilitator
- No endless swiping
- Genuine interactions
- Location-based discovery
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Welcome to Ivy, the dating app that revives the magic of spontaneous, real-world connections. Whether you’re at your favorite café, enjoying a night out, or exploring a new spot, Ivy helps you discover who's open to saying hello. No endless swiping, no digital barriers—just genuine interactions waiting to happen.
Eclipse
This app connects people looking to go out tonight based on their chosen neighborhood. It facilitates real-time connections and plan coordination for both solo and group outings, with all interactions resetting daily for privacy.
- Time-based social planning
- Neighborhood-focused connections
- Real-time plan coordination
- Solo and group outing facilitation
- Daily interaction reset
- Privacy-focused design
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Meet someone tonight. Not someday. Eclipse is for people already planning to go out tonight. Match with people in your city who are actually going out that same day. No stale profiles. No seeing profiles of people who forgot the app exists three weeks ago. Going out in West Loop? River North? Lincoln Park? Open Eclipse and see who’s planning to go out in the same neighborhood as you or across the city. Built around neighborhoods, not random radius matching. Meet people where your night is already happening instead of matching with someone 45 minutes away, you’ll never realistically meet. No endless swiping. No pen pals. No weeks of texting that go nowhere. Every morning at 7 AM, Eclipse resets. Matches and chats disappear. The point is to create real nights out, not conversations that drag on forever. Your exact location is never shared. You’re only visible at the neighborhood level. Block or report anyone at any time. No paywalls. No hidden features. Everyone gets the full experience. Just real nights out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Eclipse at 4.3 against Ivy Dating's 4.0. Eclipse also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 63%). Ivy Dating's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Eclipse holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Ivy Dating's written reviews are positive against 75% of Eclipse's.
Ivy Dating ships an update every 6 days, Eclipse every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ivy Dating | Eclipse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (57 ratings) | 4.3 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ivy Dating | Eclipse Platforms, Inc. |
Customer experience
Ivy Dating
Eclipse
In-app purchases
Ivy Dating
No in-app purchases
Eclipse
No in-app purchases
