Daekon vs posting2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daekon
Share your current status with friends and followers using customizable "Beacons." Add unique flair with original art and control visibility to signal your status stylishly. It's a simple yet effective way to communicate your availability and mood.
- Create Beacons for status sharing
- Add Flair with original art
- Control Beacon visibility
- Stylish status signaling
- Friend and follower sharing
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Daekon is a simple status sharing app. Create status beacons to share with your friends and community. Add flair to your beacons with original art by talented Human artists. Turn beacons on and off to stylishly signal your followers. The beacon is lit by you!
posting2
A simple, ad-free social media platform focused on human connection. It prioritizes content from your immediate network and uses an in-app polling system for community-driven changes. Funding is entirely voluntary.
- Ad-free experience
- No algorithms
- Content from your network
- In-app polling system
- Voluntary donations for funding
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Simple, independent social media. No ads, no algorithms, no data sales. See posts from your friends and friends of your friends. Vote on ideas and changes with the in-app polling system. Funding for this project comes from supporter subscriptions and web shop sales. posting2 is free to use. Supporting posting2 is optional via an auto-renewing annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically each year unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://posting2.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://posting2.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: posting2 at 685 against Daekon's 4. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Daekon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and posting2 sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daekon against 5.0 for posting2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: posting2 has 685 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Daekon's written reviews are positive against 99% of posting2's.
Daekon ships an update monthly, posting2 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daekon | posting2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 5.0 (685 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 98.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 685 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dumbo LLC | POSTING2 LLC |
Customer experience
Daekon
posting2
In-app purchases
Daekon
- Golden Radish$0.99
- 3 Golden Radishes$2.79
- 5 Golden Radishes$4.49
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- 10 Golden Radishes$7.99
posting2
- Monthly Support — $3$2.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $5$4.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $10$9.991 Month
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- posting2 Annual Support$12.991 Year
- $3 Tip$2.99
- $5 Tip$4.99
- $10 Tip$9.99
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- $25 Tip$24.99
- $50 Tip$49.99
