Jay vs Zeffyr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jay
Connect with activists and organizations to drive social change. Create and manage groups, discover causes, and organize or join events. Visualize movements on an interactive map and find opportunities to make a difference.
- Create and manage organizations
- Connect with like-minded activists
- Discover and join causes
- Submit and manage assemblies/events
- Interactive map of movements
- Search and filter by cause, location, date
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Empower change and connect with a vibrant community of activists and organizations. Jaywalk is the essential app for anyone passionate about making a difference. Whether you're a seasoned organizer or a new advocate, Jaywalk provides the tools you need to create impact, mobilize support, and participate in the movements that matter most. With Jaywalk, you can create and manage your own organizations, inviting members and streamlining your collective efforts. Activists are empowered to connect with like-minded individuals, discover new causes, and find opportunities to contribute to meaningful change. The app makes it easy to submit and join assemblies, allowing you to propose and manage gatherings, protests, and events, while others can browse, join, and commit directly. Visualize where change is happening with the interactive map view, showing assemblies near you or across the globe. You can explore diverse causes through a comprehensive list of social, environmental, and political issues, finding what resonates most. Plus, smart search and filter capabilities help you quickly find assemblies by cause, location, date, or organization, ensuring you never miss an opportunity to stand up for what you believe in. Jaywalk bridges the gap between intention and action, making it easier than ever to organize, mobilize, and participate in the collective pursuit of a better world. Download Jaywalk today and become a part of the movement!
Zeffyr
Discover local events like concerts, markets, and meetups on a single map. Plan outings with friends, RSVP easily, and communicate within the app. You can also host your own events and connect with others in local community hubs.
- Event discovery map
- Event filtering
- Save events to feed
- RSVP and invite friends
- In-app chat and DMs
- Host own events
- Join community hubs
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your city is doing something tonight. zeffyr finds it. one map of everything happening around you: concerts, club nights, art markets, comedy, food pop-ups, meetups. pulled from all over and updated every day. no more checking six apps and a group chat to figure out the move. find it swipe through tonight, this week, or this weekend, best matches first get a fresh daily spread of picks, tuned to what you're into pick your scenes (nightlife, lgbtq+, music, food, whatever's yours) and get a stack for each browse the map or search anything: events, clubs, groups, people every event in one place, with the flyer, time, spot, and price up front make the plan rsvp in two taps and see who else is going start a group around an event, or join one that's looking for more people invite friends with a link. they can rsvp without downloading anything comments and dms keep the plan in one place instead of three group chats find your people join a club for your crew: a group chat, a bulletin board, and plans that keep coming meet people who are into the same stuff you are (only if you opt in) make your page yours with themes, stickers, and links to your socials host your own throw your own event, from a birthday hang to a warehouse show make the flyer right in the app with text, stickers, and free art share one link, watch the rsvps roll in, and blast updates to your guest list pin announcements so nobody asks "wait, what's the address" twice live now in sacramento, los angeles, orange county, and the bay area. more cities soon. zeffyr is free. no ads, no selling your data. just what's happening. questions or ideas? hello@zeffyr.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Jay at every 5 days against Zeffyr's monthly. Jay also leads on ratings volume (70 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). Zeffyr's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Jay against 5.0 for Zeffyr. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jay has 70 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Jay's written reviews are positive against 100% of Zeffyr's.
Jay ships an update every 5 days, Zeffyr monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jay | Zeffyr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (70 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tech for Palestine | Zeffyr LLC |
Customer experience
Jay
Zeffyr
In-app purchases
Jay
No in-app purchases
Zeffyr
No in-app purchases









