Microfone vs Zeffyr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microfone
Engage in anonymous voice conversations within communities centered around shared interests. Express your unfiltered thoughts and opinions without the pressure of personal branding or appearance. Experience authentic communication where voice conveys nuance lost in text.
- Anonymous voice communities
- Connect with creators and podcasters
- Unfiltered conversations
- Voice-based communication
- Create your own community
- No personal branding
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Welcome to Microfone, the only place for actual conversation online. Connect in anonymous voice communities with your favorite creators, podcasters, and anyone who shares your interests. It's the comment section if the comment section were funny, loud, and didn't care what you look like. Cook a hot take. Try to roast a comedian. Or even discuss the heavy stuff. Nobody sees your face, nobody knows your handle, so you can say what you actually think. Voice beats text. Text flattens everything. Sarcasm dies, tone vanishes, the joke doesn't land. Voice gets the meaning and gets you: your timing, delivery, and energy. You hear a real person, not a wall of words. Why anonymous? No personal brand to manage. No reputation on the line. Say what you really think, ask what you're actually wondering, be as unfiltered as the moment calls for. What do people talk about? Honestly, whatever your corner of the internet likes. If you don't find a community for you, start one.
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: Zeffyr at monthly against Microfone's every 4 months. Microfone's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 — 5.0 for Microfone against 5.0 for Zeffyr. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Microfone ships an update every 4 months, Zeffyr monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microfone | Zeffyr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Microfone Holdings Inc | Zeffyr LLC |
Customer experience
Microfone
Zeffyr
In-app purchases
Microfone
No in-app purchases
Zeffyr
No in-app purchases









