Hotbed vs Above App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hotbed
Discover real-time city activity with a live heat map. Filter locations by demographics like age, gender, education, and income. Plan your visits to avoid crowds and find popular spots, whether for social outings or practical errands.
- Live city heat map
- Filterable demographic insights
- Historical and real-time data
- Future visit forecasting
- Crowd avoidance planning
- Location popularity insights
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Hotbed offers users a live heat map of the city. Locations display both how busy a place is, but also offered filterable demographic insights, like age, gender, education level, income, and more. Locations can be sorted historically, real-time and also forecasted for future visits. Whether you’re single and looking to meet a specific type in the real world or you’re traveling and want to find the popular restaurants and nightlife, Hotbed is for everyone. Save time avoiding lines and crowds at the grocery store. With Hotbed, you can know before you go. Fake reviews, inaccurate hours online or sponsored ads don’t honestly depict what places are open, busy or attract crowds like Hotbed does. Don’t guess where is busy or who likely hangs out there, but know for sure. All data displayed shows people 18+ year of age.
Above App
A faith-based social network designed to connect Christians, foster community, and inspire global transformation. It aims to provide a purposeful platform for believers to gather, network, and grow in their faith beyond Sunday services.
- Unify believers
- Build community
- Platform for world transformation
- Networking and connecting
- Mentoring opportunities
- Purposeful scrolling
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The social app for Christians on mission to unify believers, build community, and provide a platform to bring world transformation Jesus calls us to seek first the Kingdom, and all else will be added. Not to seek first the things of the world. So we are breaking that. And instead, building a network to set our minds on things Above. Above is what it means to be the church more than just Sunday. It's for the third-space gatherings of people going after God for networking, connecting, and mentoring. to give scrolling a purpose & for those who desire to seek Jesus, to know Jesus. If we set our minds on things above & not things of the world, imagine how powerful we can become for His Kingdom.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Above App at every 10 days against Hotbed's every 3 months. 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 Hotbed against 5.0 for Above App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Hotbed ships an update every 3 months, Above App every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Hotbed | Above App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 420 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Eyes In The Skies Creative Inc | BIANCA JULES KETENCI |
Customer experience
Hotbed
Above App
In-app purchases
Hotbed
No in-app purchases
Above App
No in-app purchases









