Reco Social vs Whencee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reco Social
Discover new interests through authentic recommendations from real people. Share what you love and earn rewards for your discoveries. Connect with users, creators, and brands in a social and useful way.
- Authentic recommendations
- Discover new interests
- Share and earn rewards
- Connect with users, creators, and brands
- Social discovery platform
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Let’s get real. Social media is full of content. But real recommendations? Real conversations? Those are harder to find. Reco changes that.Reco is the social platform where the content you love becomes something you can actually use — and conversations you can actually have. Real recommendations: Every post is hiding something — a restaurant, a film, a place, a product. Reco’s AI finds it automatically. No tags. No sponsorships. Just what’s real. RealTalk: Ask any creator anything. The community votes the best questions to the top. Creators respond. It’s not just comments. It’s a real exchange. Save & collect: When a recommendation catches your eye, don’t lose it in the scroll. Save it. Organize it. Come back to it when you’re ready. Scan anything: Send Reco any post — from anywhere — and it finds every recommendation hiding inside. You’ve been scrolling long enough. Download Reco. Let’s get real.
Whencee
Share a temporary live-location map with a group using a code. See each other's positions and chat, with all data automatically deleted when the group disbands. Offers end-to-end encryption and no accounts required.
- Temporary live-location maps
- No accounts or sign-up required
- End-to-end encrypted communication
- Automatic data deletion after use
- Meeting points and markers
- Multiple simultaneous maps
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Share a code. See each other on a map. Leave, and it's like it never happened. Whencee is a live-location map for small groups — family finding each other at a fair, friends converging on a restaurant, a crew on a road trip. Start a map, share the 6-character code, and everyone on it sees everyone else, sorted by distance, with a group chat that rides along. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • No accounts. No sign-up, ever. Open the app, pick a name, go. • Nothing is kept. A map lives only while people are on it. When the last person leaves, everything — positions, chat, all of it — is deleted within minutes. There is no history to leak, sell, or subpoena. • End-to-end encrypted. Give a map a passphrase and names, positions and messages are encrypted on your phone and readable only by your group. The server relays ciphertext it cannot open. • Fair by design. You see people only while you share your own position — enforced by the server, not the honor system. Nobody lurks invisibly. • Meeting points and markers. Long-press the map to drop a pin everyone sees, labelled with how far each person is from it. • Several maps at once. Family in one, friends in another — switch with a tap, each with its own code, passphrase and chat. Location is shared only while you are on a map you joined, with a visible indicator the whole time, and stops the moment you leave. Whencee has no ads, no analytics, and no trackers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Reco Social at 32K against Whencee's 1. Reco Social also leads on chart position (#4 vs unranked). Whencee's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Whencee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reco Social has 32K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Reco Social ships an update weekly, Whencee every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reco Social | Whencee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (32K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 32K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #4 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Reco Social, Inc. | DONALD HAROLD SHAPPELLE |
Customer experience
Reco Social
Whencee
In-app purchases
Reco Social
No in-app purchases
Whencee
No in-app purchases









