Slate Forums vs Gather Communities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slate Forums
This community app allows users to engage with the Slate Auto Truck forum. Browse forums, threads, and user profiles, or log in to post content and receive native push notifications for alerts and messages.
- Native push notifications
- Browse forum list
- Browse threads
- Search content
- Post threads/replies
- View and edit user profiles
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Community app for the Slate Auto Truck (Pickup & SUV) forum at Slateforums.com. Browse as a guest or log in to use native push notifications for alerts and conversation messages. Key Features: - Native push notifications for the same alerts as on the website - Browse forum list - Browse threads list - Search content - Post threads/replies - View alerts - Watch content - View user profiles - Edit profile - Report content This Slate Forums app and the Slateforums.com website are independent / privately owned and are not affiliated in any manner with Slate Auto
Gather Communities
Consolidate all your online communities into a single, streamlined application. Browse, post, and follow discussions across multiple platforms with one account. Easily create and manage your own community spaces without technical hurdles.
- Unified community access
- Browse, post, and follow discussions
- Single account for all communities
- Easy community creation
- Privacy-focused design
- No algorithms or data harvesting
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Stop juggling dozens of forum apps and browser tabs. Gather brings thousands of communities together in one fast, beautiful app. Browse, post, and follow the conversations you care about across all your Gatherings with a single account. Want to build your own community? Create a Gathering in minutes. No technical setup. No licensing fees. Just a place for your people to connect. Gather is privacy-focused by design. No algorithms deciding what you see. No data harvesting. Just real conversations. Bring your people home. Terms of Service: https://gather.forum/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://gather.forum/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Slate Forums at none against Gather Communities's 4. Slate Forums also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Gather Communities's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (201 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. Gather Communities sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $30.00 per year. Slate Forums asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slate Forums holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gather Communities has 201 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Slate Forums ships an update every 5 months, Gather Communities every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slate Forums | Gather Communities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (201 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 201 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JWKZ LLC | GCS Publishing, Inc |
Customer experience
Slate Forums
Gather Communities
In-app purchases
Slate Forums
No in-app purchases
Gather Communities
- Bronze Membership$30.001 Year
- Silver Membership$60.001 Year
- Gold Membership$119.991 Year
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- Platinum Membership$200.001 Year
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