Ditto vs dumb MESSAGE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Shared pixel canvas
- Real-time drawing
- Stamp images as pixels
- Dictation to pixel text
- Day and Night modes
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Ditto | dumb MESSAGE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (891 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 891 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Breezi 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
Ditto
No in-app purchases
dumb MESSAGE
No in-app purchases









