Comparison

Ditto vs dumb MESSAGE

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

Head to head
About

Ditto

This app allows users to create and share lists of thoughts, recommendations, and experiences with friends and a wider community. Discover real people with similar interests and connect your online and offline worlds in a judgment-free space.

Highlights
  • Create and share lists
  • Discover people with shared interests
  • Community-voted hot topics
  • Share recommendations and experiences
  • Connect online and offline worlds
  • No curated aesthetics
Features
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A social app for real people, and real thoughts. Create fun lists, easily share recommendations or manifestations, follow people similar to you and dump every unhinged thought on Ditto. No niches, no curated aesthetics or edits — just a place to be yourself. CREATE & CONNECT Ditto was born out of a crashout. From red flags in dating, birthday bucket lists, extreme college hacks, and the hottest people on campus, nothing is off limits. All in the form of lists. Don’t know what lists to make? Our community votes on Hot Topics each week, from Love Island debriefs, to travel diaries or monthly recaps – sometimes it’s just fun to see what others are talking about. DISCOVER BETTER Your experience is someone else’s inspiration. Find real people in your city, on campus, or across the country who share your interests and POVs. Planning a trip to Tokyo? Someone's mapped out the perfect ramen tour. Need workout motivation? Save routines from people who've been there. Get genuinely good recs (instead of internet slop). IT’S NOT THAT DEEP Unless you want it to be. Every girl knows it’s a jumpscare to scroll through your notes app. What are we going to find? A middle school crash out? Grandma’s recipe? Where the hottest men run in NYC? Things that got you through hard times? We’re here for it all. YOU’RE ALREADY DOING IT Your notes app shouldn’t know you better than your best friend or your boyfriend. Share publicly, follow friends, find people you relate to, and connect your online and offline worlds. Like instead of raging in your notes app about what you wish your man did for you, you can post it publicly for him to see or someone to send him. If not that, at least you could help another couple out. – Join a social network of 50,000+ ex-notes app lovers now (over)sharing on Ditto.

About

dumb MESSAGE

Collaborate on a shared pixel canvas with friends in real-time. Draw, stamp images, or use dictation to add text to the evolving artwork. Experience a minimalist social interaction without feeds or typing indicators.

Highlights
  • Shared pixel canvas
  • Real-time drawing
  • Stamp images as pixels
  • Dictation to pixel text
  • Day and Night modes
Features
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The future was supposed to be simpler. dumb MESSAGE is one shared pixel canvas. You draw. Your friends draw. Everyone sees the same thing at the same time. No feed to refresh. No followers to impress. No typing bubble making you anxious. No color because frankly, you’ll cope. There is no feed. There is no typing indicator. There isn't even color. HOW IT WORKS • Start a canvas and get an ID you can say out loud, like MINTFOX42 • Send the link. Friends open it and their ink shows up next to yours • One finger draws, two fingers pan • Point the camera at anything and stamp it as dithered 1-bit pixels • Or talk — dictation turns your words into pixel type on the canvas • DAY mode is reflective gray. NIGHT mode glows green

Screenshots

Ditto4 screens
dumb MESSAGE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: dumb MESSAGE at every 2 days against Ditto's every 3 weeks. Ditto's advantage is ratings volume (891 vs 1). 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

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

dumb MESSAGE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ditto has 891 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ditto ships an update every 3 weeks, dumb MESSAGE every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ditto versus dumb MESSAGE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDittodumb MESSAGE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (891 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings891 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBreezi Inc.Matt Jakob

Bugs and requests

Ditto

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Search function not working properly
  • App crashing for some users

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to like and pin comments
  • Improved engagement and interaction features
  • Animations and visual enhancements

dumb MESSAGE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ditto

No in-app purchases

None

dumb MESSAGE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ditto free?
Ditto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is dumb MESSAGE free?
dumb MESSAGE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ditto or dumb MESSAGE?
dumb MESSAGE is rated higher. Ditto averages 4.8 out of 5 from 891 ratings, while dumb MESSAGE averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ditto or dumb MESSAGE have ads?
Neither Ditto nor dumb MESSAGE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ditto or dumb MESSAGE?
Ditto ships an update every 3 weeks, and dumb MESSAGE every 2 days. Most recently, Ditto was updated on October 30, 2026 and dumb MESSAGE on November 5, 2026.

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