Comparison

Dislink vs Authentic Social Media

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

Head to head
About

Dislink

This app helps you manage real-life connections by capturing the context of your meetings. It allows you to share a customizable digital business card, add private notes and reminders, and organize your network into circles. You can also discover and create events, and visualize your network's growth.

Highlights
  • QR code connections with location context
  • Customizable digital business card
  • Private notes and follow-up reminders
  • Relationship health monitoring
  • Network organization into circles
  • Event discovery and creation
  • Interactive network map
Features
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Meet someone. Remember the moment. Dislink helps you keep the people you meet in real life, with the context that makes each connection matter. From a conference conversation to a chance encounter, turn a quick introduction into someone you can find again. CONNECT WITH A QR CODE Show your personal QR card or scan someone else's. Review the connection, choose what to share, and save the person to People. Each person makes their own choices independently. YOUR PEOPLE, WITH CONTEXT Keep your connections in one place. Find people by name, organise them into circles, and filter by where or when you met. Meeting context helps you remember more than a name. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SHARE Build your profile with your work, interests and selected social links. Choose what to share with each connection, including the option to share nothing beyond your public profile. Your choices stay yours. REMEMBER THE DETAILS Add private notes and follow-up reminders to a contact. Keep the useful details from a conversation and give yourself a reason to reconnect. YOUR CARD, READY WHEN YOU NEED IT Prepare your QR card while online and use eligible saved cards offline at the same location. Previously saved People can also remain available offline on your device. A SIMPLE PLACE TO START People keeps your connections together. Scan starts a new connection. You is where you shape your profile and sharing preferences. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. Location access is needed to show a meeting QR card; camera access is used when you scan. You control which profile details you share.

About

Authentic Social Media

This app offers a social experience focused on connecting with actual friends and family, free from ads, algorithms, and influencers. It allows users to share moments and participate in a daily spontaneous photo challenge called a 'Glimpse'.

Highlights
  • Connect with friends and family
  • Share photos anytime
  • Daily spontaneous photo challenge (Glimpse)
  • No feed or algorithm
  • No ads or influencers
  • No follower counts or likes
Features
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Social media wasn't built for your actual friends. It was built to keep you scrolling. Think about it. When did you last open Instagram to see what your best friend is actually doing right now? Instead, you got ads, influencers, and an algorithm deciding what matters. Three hours later, you're watching strangers argue about something you don't care about. Authentic is different. Just your people. Just their faces. Open the app and you see the people who matter to you—what they're doing today, where they are, how they're feeling. No feed. No algorithm. No ads. No influencers. Nothing to scroll. — HOW IT WORKS Share moments with your people whenever you want. A photo from your morning coffee. Your view from the office. Dinner with your family. Your people see it. That's it. But there's also something called a Glimpse. Once a day, at a random time, you get a notification. You have 2 minutes to share a photo—whatever you're doing right now. No planning. No staging. No picking the perfect angle. Just your life, in that moment. You don't pick the perfect moment. The moment picks you. That's what makes it real. Your people are doing the same thing. So you see their unplanned moments too. Tuesday at 2:47pm. Saturday morning still in bed. The boring parts. The real parts. — WHY I BUILT THIS I'm Atin. I got tired of the doom scroll. I wanted a place to see my friends' faces without the noise. Without spending an hour I didn't mean to spend. Without feeling worse after than before. So I built something smaller. Something focused. Something that takes a few minutes a day, not a few hours. No hundred million dollars in funding. No growth hacking. No "engagement optimization." Just a place that respects your time and your relationships. — WHAT YOU GET • Your people's faces, front and center • Share photos anytime, or capture a daily Glimpse • No algorithm deciding what you see • No ads, ever • No follower counts or likes • No strangers, no influencers, no "suggested for you" — The social app for people who are tired of social media. Instagram is for influencers. Authentic is for humans.

Screenshots

Dislink3 screens
Authentic Social Media3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dislink at 5.0 against Authentic Social Media's 1.0. Authentic Social Media's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dislink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dislink ships an update fortnightly, Authentic Social Media every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dislink versus Authentic Social Media: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDislinkAuthentic Social Media
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB57 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAntonio TubitoAuthentic Technologies Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Dislink

No in-app purchases

None

Authentic Social Media

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dislink free?
Dislink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Authentic Social Media free?
Authentic Social Media is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dislink or Authentic Social Media?
Dislink is rated higher. Dislink averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Authentic Social Media averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dislink or Authentic Social Media have ads?
Neither Dislink nor Authentic Social Media shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dislink or Authentic Social Media?
Dislink ships an update fortnightly, and Authentic Social Media every 2 days. Most recently, Dislink was updated on October 28, 2026 and Authentic Social Media on October 28, 2026.

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