Openlight vs Forum, a Facebook app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Openlight
A social platform for discovering content, sharing updates, and connecting with others. It aims to provide a personalized and engaging experience for users to forge friendships and explore new ideas within a creative community.
- Discover new content
- Share updates
- Forge friendships
- Personalized experience
- Community interaction
- Creative communication
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Discover Openlight, a dynamic social platform designed to foster connections and inspire meaningful interactions. Whether you're sharing updates, exploring new content, or forging friendships, Openlight provides a personalized and engaging experience. Stay in touch with friends, uncover innovative ideas, and become part of a community that values creativity and communication. Embrace a new era of social networking – download Openlight today and make every moment more vibrant!
Forum, a Facebook app
This app offers a dedicated space for engaging in deeper discussions within your Facebook groups. It focuses on shared interests and real conversations, allowing you to ask questions and get answers from people with relevant experience. Group admins also receive AI assistance for moderation.
- Dedicated group discussion space
- Sign in with Facebook account
- Post with a nickname option
- Group feed based on conversations
- Ask and get answers from real people
- AI assistant for group admins
- Connect around shared interests
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Facebook is great for keeping up with friends, watching videos, and staying connected. Forum is where you go deeper in groups. It's a space designed for real discussions, shared interests, and the people who’ve been there. Dedicated space for your groups Sign in with your Facebook account and your groups, profile and activity carry over. You have the option to post with a nickname. Your groups still exist on Facebook and anything you share on Forum will be visible in your groups on Facebook. This is just a space built around them. Stay in the loop on conversations you care about Your feed is built around conversations from groups. See what real people are saying, not just what’s trending, and easily jump back in where you left off. Ask and get answers from real people Looking for opinions, advice or recommendations? Ask pulls together responses from across groups, so you can get answers right away from people who've been there and join the conversation. Built for the people who run groups Admins still have access to all their tools on Facebook, and now they also have an admin AI assistant on Forum to help manage their groups, moderate content, and keep their communities healthy — all while maintaining control. Dive into topics that interest you Forum brings people together around the things they care about, from niche hobbies to local recommendations to support groups. Share your take, join the conversation and connect with your communities. Some features may not be available in your country or region.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Openlight at none against Forum, a Facebook app's shown. Openlight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Forum, a Facebook app's advantage is ratings volume (9.5K vs 1) and chart position (#15 vs unranked). On price, update cadence 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.
Openlight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forum, a Facebook app has 9.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Openlight | Forum, a Facebook app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (9.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 55.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | — | #15 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fossa | Meta Platforms, Inc. |
Customer experience
Openlight
Forum, a Facebook app
In-app purchases
Openlight
No in-app purchases
Forum, a Facebook app
No in-app purchases









