Doost vs Yap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Doost
This app connects users for friendships or romantic relationships. It uses shared answers to insightful questions to create context, moving beyond traditional profiles. It also offers icebreakers and conversation starters to facilitate interaction.
- Friendship and relationship matching
- Context-based user introductions
- Icebreakers and conversation starters
- Privacy-focused approach
- Insightful question-based matching
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Doost is your personal Wingmate! It matches users for friendship and/or relationships. It moves away from traditional profiles and introduces users with context based on their responses to a series of insightful questions that both have answered, and allows users to jump into the conversation by providing icebreakers and conversation continuers on relevant topics of interest when needed. Privacy Policy: https://doostsocial.com/privacy/index.html Contact Us: https://doostsocial.com/
Yap
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Yap is where a story turns into a group chat. Someone tells you what happened to them, out loud, in their own voice. It ends on a question with no clean answer. Was he wrong? Should she have said something? You tap, and you land in a room full of people talking it out right then. Text, photos, voice notes, whatever gets your point across. The room stays yours, and it keeps going long after the story ends. Every story here is somebody's real life. Every room is a group of strangers figuring out what they think about it. Why Yap โ Stories told out loud Never written, never scripted. Someone talks, and you hear it exactly the way they told it. โ Every story opens a room One tap and you are in, with everyone else who just heard the same thing. โ Live group chats People reacting at the same time as you, not hours later in a comment section. โ Your rooms stay in one place Ready for when you come back. The conversation kept going without you. โ Talk once, and let the room take it from there No writing, no planning, no showing your face. You say it, and people show up. You know the feeling of finishing a story and needing to text someone about it right away. This is that, with the room already waiting. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://amonstudio.io/terms
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Verdict
Doost and Yap are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Doost ships an update every 5 days, Yap weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doost | Yap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days โ better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Doost Social Company | Amon Studio |
In-app purchases
Doost
No in-app purchases
Yap
No in-app purchases









