Boppn vs Friendly SMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boppn
Compete in exciting in-person scavenger hunts by joining teams to solve riddles and complete challenges. Strategically choose which tasks to attempt to earn points and uncover hidden advantages. The team with the highest score wins the hunt.
- Team-based scavenger hunts
- Solve riddles and clues
- Complete point-based challenges
- Submit photos/videos for challenges
- Discover hidden city advantages
- Strategic challenge selection
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The Boppn App supports team building events and competitions such as scavenger hunts, bar crawls, and boppn around a neighborhood. Each event brings people closer to their city and to each other. Join a private event, try one of our public events, or even create your own event. Boppn presents opportunities for participants to complete activities and earn points through picture submission, video submission, and geolocation. Competition drives the engagement and fun. The individual/team with the most points is crowned winner. Boppn is great for Orientations, Birthday Parties, Community Building, Corporate Outings, Bucket Lists, School Activities, Camp Activities, Festivals.
Friendly SMS
This app helps you stay in touch with important contacts by setting personalized reminders. It allows you to send pre-written text messages with a single tap, ensuring you never miss a special occasion or a chance to connect.
- Recurring contact reminders
- Birthday reminders
- Pre-filled SMS messages
- Customizable messages
- Manual one-off reminders
- Local notifications
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Friendly helps you stay connected with the people who matter most — without letting life get in the way. Simply import your contacts, set a reminder frequency, and Friendly will nudge you when it's time to reach out. When the reminder fires, just tap to open a pre-filled text message and send it in seconds. Features: - Recurring reminders — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly - Birthday reminders so you never miss a special day - Pre-filled SMS messages so sending is effortless - Customize your message for each contact - One-off manual reminders whenever you need them - Local notifications — no account or login required Your data stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Boppn at 19 against Friendly SMS's 1. Boppn also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Friendly SMS's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Boppn against 5.0 for Friendly SMS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boppn has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Boppn | Friendly SMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boppn LLC | Gabriel Beer |
Customer experience
Boppn
Friendly SMS
In-app purchases
Boppn
No in-app purchases
Friendly SMS
No in-app purchases
