Comparison

Ayla vs PONGE

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

Head to head
About

Ayla

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Ayla๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋™๋„ค ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๋ผ์šด์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ผ์ž์ด์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜ผ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ถ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„, Ayla๋Š” ํ™๋Œ€ ์ธ๊ทผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ผ์šด์ง€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ, ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ๋А์Šจํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ด๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. - ๋ผ์šด์ง€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์นดํŽ˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ์‹ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ˆ•๊ณ , ์Šคํ„ฐ๋””๋ฃธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ฑ…๊ณผ ์Œ์•…์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. - ํšŒ์›์ œ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋˜๋Š” ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ถŒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์›” ๋ฉค๋ฒ„์‹ญ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ด์šฉ๊ถŒ ์†Œ์…œ ๋‹ค์ด๋‹, ๋…์„œ๋ชจ์ž„, ์ทจํ–ฅ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‹œ ์—ด๋ ค์š” ์šด์˜์ง„์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋•์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค - ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ๋“œ๋ ค์š” ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์€ ํ—ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๋ถ„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ์ง‘๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜ ์‚ฌ์ด, ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ œ3์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ณ , ๋А์Šจํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ถ. Ayla์—์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ž์„ธํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” https://ay-la.com ์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

About

PONGE

Discover LGBTQ+ friendly spaces, events, and communities on a map. Share your current mood with temporary messages and connect through community posts and private chats with AI translation.

Highlights
  • Map-based discovery of spaces and events
  • Temporary mood sharing ('Shouting')
  • Community posts and comments
  • 1:1 chats with AI translation
  • Multi-language support
  • Safety and reporting features
Features
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Do something you enjoy together, and you have a reason to meet again. PONGE is a social app where LGBTQ+ adults meet through shared interests and local meetups. [Meetups] โ€ข Climbing on a Thursday evening, a weekend hike, board games after work. Find a meetup around something you enjoy. โ€ข Notices, schedule, and members are visible before you join, so you can read about a meetup and then apply. โ€ข Approved members write posts with photos on the board and keep talking in the group chat. [Gatherings and places] โ€ข Mark your attendance for a spontaneous plan tonight or a regular gathering. โ€ข A gathering's exact place is shown only to approved members. โ€ข A gathering can be linked to a registered service or event instead of a typed address, so everyone opens the same place. [Events and services] โ€ข Events help you find parties and screenings. โ€ข Services introduce shops and spaces where you can spend time together. [Shoutings and messages] โ€ข A short Shouting can start a conversation before you choose a meetup. โ€ข Read messages on Home, leave a reaction or a comment, and continue in one-on-one messages. โ€ข Translation helps when you speak different languages, and you can read and post Shoutings without location permission. [Profile and regions] โ€ข Build your profile with a nickname, tags, and a bio. โ€ข Browse meetups in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. โ€ข Choose a country and region when you want to look somewhere specific, including a place you are visiting. [Safety and privacy] โ€ข Exact user locations are not shown to other users, and where distance appears it is approximate. โ€ข Profiles and content have reporting options, and you can block unwanted contact. Shared activities make room for conversations that continue beyond a first meeting.

Screenshots

Ayla4 screens
PONGE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PONGE at weekly against Ayla's every 3 months. Ayla's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ayla ships an update every 3 months, PONGE weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 4 level
Ayla versus PONGE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAylaPONGE
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAyla AnywhereGREATEARTH CO., LTD.

In-app purchases

None

Ayla

No in-app purchases

None

PONGE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ayla free?
Ayla is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PONGE free?
PONGE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ayla or PONGE have ads?
Neither Ayla nor PONGE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ayla or PONGE?
Ayla ships an update every 3 months, and PONGE weekly. Most recently, Ayla was updated on October 9, 2026 and PONGE on October 12, 2026.

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