FirstMover vs Manfriend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FirstMover
Receive immediate notifications for new NYC apartment rentals that match your specific search criteria. Avoid constantly checking listings and find your ideal home faster. Set your preferences and get alerted the instant a new rental becomes available.
- Instant rental alerts
- Customizable search filters
- New listing notifications
- StreetEasy integration
- Dream home finder
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Get instant alerts for new NYC apartment listings on StreetEasy, tailored to your search. Set your filters — we’ll notify you the moment a new rental matches. Find your dream home without refreshing StreetEasy all day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Manfriend
Never forget important dates again. This app helps you track birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, offering gift ideas and planning assistance. Stay organized and show up prepared for every occasion.
- Dashboard of upcoming important dates
- Countdown to each occasion
- Gift ideas and planning prompts
- Save plans for future use
- Add dates to Apple Calendar
- Local notification reminders
- Built-in planning concierge
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Manfriend is the relationship planning app built for people who care but need a little help staying ahead. Enter the important dates in your life — birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas — and Manfriend builds you a personal dashboard of upcoming moments ranked by how soon they're coming up. No more last-minute scrambles or forgotten occasions. WHAT MANFRIEND DOES: - Dashboard of all your upcoming important dates in one place - See exactly how many days away each occasion is - Get gift ideas and dinner/reservation prompts for each date - Build a plan for any occasion and save it for later - Add any date directly to Apple Calendar - Turn on local notifications so you're reminded well in advance - Built-in planning concierge with structured checklists and next steps HOW IT WORKS: 1. Complete a quick onboarding to enter your important dates and basic partner details 2. Your dashboard populates with upcoming occasions ranked by proximity 3. Tap any date to see gift ideas, make a plan, or book dinner 4. Set notifications and let Manfriend handle the reminders Stop relying on memory. Start showing up like you planned it all along.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Manfriend at none against FirstMover's 2. Manfriend also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). FirstMover's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. FirstMover sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Manfriend asks for nothing beyond the download.
Manfriend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FirstMover has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of FirstMover's written reviews are positive against 100% of Manfriend's.
FirstMover ships an update fortnightly, Manfriend every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FirstMover | Manfriend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clayton Marshall | James Kozuch |
Customer experience
FirstMover
Manfriend
In-app purchases
FirstMover
- FirstMover NYC Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- FirstMover NYC Lifetime$29.99
Manfriend
No in-app purchases
