Comparison

thingz vs The Monthly Soup

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

thingz

Organize and rediscover your saved content from various apps and websites. Easily share recommendations with friends and discover what they're saving. Never forget a great find again.

Highlights
  • Centralized saving from multiple sources
  • Automatic organization of saved content
  • Content resurfacing at opportune times
  • Easy sharing of recommendations
  • Discover friends' saved content
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Welcome to thingz. Most of what you save gets lost. That restaurant you wanted to try. That product you meant to buy. That idea you swore you'd remember. Buried in screenshots, saved posts, and browser tabs. Rediscover what you save with thingz. Find it when it matters and recommend what works with the people you trust. How it works: — Save from anywhere: Capture places, products, videos, links, and ideas from the apps you already use — Stay organized automatically: Saves are sorted into searchable collections, no filing required — Create from real experiences: Turn a place, product, or moment you've actually tried into a recommendation worth sharing — Add context: Save notes, photos, and details so you remember why something mattered when you come back to it — Find it when you need it: Your Loop resurfaces what you saved at the right time — Recommend what works: Share places, products, and experiences you've tried and loved Save it. Try it. Recommend it. Built on real experiences, ready when you need them.

About

The Monthly Soup

Features
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The Monthly Soup turns your friend group into a magazine. Every month, your Soup answers fun questions: highs and lows, guilty pleasures, what you've been reading, who you've been missing. The app automatically compiles everything into a beautiful newsletter and delivers it to everyone's inbox. No editing. No coordinating. No "can someone please just send it." It just arrives. WHAT'S INSIDE EACH ISSUE - Everyone's answers, side by side: see how differently you all think - A photo wall of your month's highlights - Monthly veggie horoscopes for every member - A newsletter reader that makes it feel like a real magazine. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a Soup and invite up to 10 friends 2. Each month, ask questions & answer them as well as automatically-generated questions 3. On publish day, your issue is compiled and sent automatically 4. Read it in the app as a scroll magazine MAKE IT YOURS - Add your own custom questions alongside the automatic ones - Choose your Soup's language (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian) - Customise with group backgrounds and icons Paid Apps Agreement: The Paid Apps Agreement has been accepted in App Store Connect. Subscription information (guideline 3.1.2c): The app offers two auto-renewable subscription options: - Monthly: €4.99/month, billed monthly - Yearly: €49.99/year, billed annually The paywall screen displays: - Subscription title and length - The billed amount as the most prominent pricing element - Full auto-renewable subscription disclosure (renewal, cancellation, management) - Functional links to Terms of Use (EULA) and Privacy Policy Links: - Terms of Use: https://app.themonthlysoup.com/en/terms - Privacy Policy: https://app.themonthlysoup.com/en/privacy

Screenshots

thingz4 screens
The Monthly Soup4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: thingz at none against The Monthly Soup's shown. thingz also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). The Monthly Soup's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

thingz ships an update every 8 days, The Monthly Soup every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
thingz versus The Monthly Soup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterthingzThe Monthly Soup
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (828 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings828 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB140 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLikepostMargot Alvargonzalez

In-app purchases

None

thingz

No in-app purchases

None

The Monthly Soup

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is thingz free?
thingz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Monthly Soup free?
The Monthly Soup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do thingz or The Monthly Soup have ads?
The Monthly Soup shows ads; thingz does not.
Which is updated more often, thingz or The Monthly Soup?
thingz ships an update every 8 days, and The Monthly Soup every 3 weeks. Most recently, thingz was updated on November 8, 2026 and The Monthly Soup on October 31, 2026.

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