4um vs Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
4um
This social media platform allows users to share backgrounds, photos, videos, and quotes. Engage with friends and communities through likes, comments, and shares. It aims to decentralize social media and empower users.
- Share backgrounds, photos, videos, and quotes
- Interact with friends
- Connect with communities
- Like, comment, and share posts
- Decentralized platform ownership
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4um is an all-in-one social media platform which is owned and operated by its employees and users. The app allows users to share their detailed backgrounds, post pictures, videos, quotes. Users can interact with their friends and connect with communities by liking, commenting on, and sharing social media posts. The platform seeks to decentralize social media and give all users an equal chance to be heard. Own your voice!
Loop
This social app encourages real-life connections by facilitating spontaneous meetups. It allows users to express interest in others nearby and discover shared connections and activities.
- Nudges for expressing interest in meeting others
- Mutual nudges to confirm interest
- Profiles highlighting shared interests and friends
- Notifications for people in shared locations
- Facilitates offline connections
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Loop: Connect In-Person is the social app built to get you offline. Instead of endless scrolling, Loop: Connect In-Person helps you connect with people in real life, see what’s happening around you, and always stay in the loop. Features Nudges - A lightweight way to show interest in meeting someone you see irl. - Send a nudge to someone in your space; if they nudge back, you know it’s mutual. - Remove the stress of cold approaches and make new connections feel natural. Shared Interests - Profiles highlight your mutual interests, friends, and loops. - The App notifies you of people who loop into the same places you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loop at 5.0 against 4um's 3.7. Loop also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (21 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Loop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
4um ships an update monthly, Loop weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | 4um | Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 4UM LLC | FAiT Global, Co. |
Customer experience
4um
Loop
In-app purchases
4um
No in-app purchases
Loop
No in-app purchases
