Hipple vs Aora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hipple
Connect with friends and a like-minded community by sharing personal stories and videos. Upload content, discover creators, and engage with inspiring videos. Tell your story and grow your network.
- Upload and share videos
- Search and follow users
- Discover and watch content
- Create and share your story
- Connect with community
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Welcome to Hipple – Your Social Hub for Sharing Stories and Videos with Friends! Hipple is the ultimate platform for sharing your personal stories, videos, and creative content with friends and followers. Whether you're showcasing your latest adventure, telling an inspiring story, or sharing fun moments, Hipple helps you connect, share, and engage with a like-minded community. You can upload videos, share them with anyone, and follow users who inspire you. Key Features: Upload and Share Videos: Easily upload your videos and share them with friends, followers, or anyone you choose. Connect with your community through engaging content. Search and Follow Users: Quickly search for users by their ID and follow those who inspire you. Discover new creators, influencers, or friends to connect with. Discover and Watch Content: Explore a wide range of videos from the users you follow. Watch exciting, creative, and fun content shared by others. Create and Share Your Story: Use the video creation tool to capture and share moments from your life in your own unique way. Tell your story and engage with a wider audience. Join Hipple Today! Whether you’re looking to share your life, tell your story, or discover new creators, Hipple is the perfect space to engage with friends and the community. Start uploading, following, and growing your network!
Aora
This app connects Berkeley students for photo and video-based challenges and competitions. Users can create or join challenges, respond with media, and rate others' submissions. It fosters a closed campus community for authentic interactions.
- Create and join campus challenges
- Respond with photos or videos
- Rate user submissions
- View disappearing photo/video messages
- Closed campus community
- Track user scores
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Aora is your school, full screen. Open it and you are in what your campus is actually doing tonight. Not an endless feed from everywhere. The people you go to class with, the plans forming for later, the parties happening now. PLANS Start one in a few taps: a name, a night, a time, a place, a cover. Say you're going and your face lands on it. Friends can comment and invite people even if they aren't going, and when nothing's coming up, the most popular plans are right there to start from. When a plan starts, everyone going gets a ping: it's on. PULL UP One message to the people you'd actually text. Send it to a few circles at once, or to everyone, and see who's pulling up. STORIES THAT DO NOT HAVE TO DISAPPEAR Post in one shutter, photo or video. Double-tap to like, and see who liked yours. Keep the ones worth keeping: name a highlight and it stays on your profile after the 24 hours are up, and shows up on Home under its tag. ROOMS, NOT A FEED Tags are rooms. A party, a class, a bit that got out of hand. Open one and you are in everything posted to it, newest first, with the people who are already there. NIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN Make an event in under a minute. Send one link and people RSVP by name, whether or not they have Aora. See which of your friends are going. Run the door from your phone with a code that rotates, keep a waitlist, and let the night fill a shared album everybody at it can add to. Hosting a chapter meeting instead? Take a roll. SHARE IT ANYWHERE Any event or plan turns into a full poster for your Instagram Story, with a link so people can say they're coming from there. YOUR HOUSE, IN ONE PLACE If you are in a house, it gets its own: a feed, a calendar, an album, points, dues, contacts and a roster, one tap from Home. Officers can see where everyone stands without a spreadsheet and a group chat. MESSAGES BUILT FOR A NIGHT OUT Reply to a story and it opens a thread. Send a voice note. Turn on vanish mode when it is that kind of conversation. CRUSHES Pick people quietly. Nobody is told unless it goes both ways. --- Aora is campus only. You join with a school email or an invite from someone already in, and you only ever see your own school. Every post can be reported and every account can be blocked, both ways, instantly. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aora at none against Hipple's 3. Aora also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Hipple's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Hipple sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Aora asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hipple against 5.0 for Aora. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Hipple ships an update every 5 days, Aora every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hipple | Aora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tianjin Jiangzhi Network Technology Co., Ltd. | Aora Social, Inc. |
Customer experience
Hipple
Aora
In-app purchases
Hipple
- Monthly Diamond Gift Pack$29.991 Month
- Diamonds$9.99
- A lot of diamonds$49.99
Aora
No in-app purchases









