Comparison

Authentic Social Media vs Hate City

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

Head to head
About

Authentic Social Media

This app offers a social experience focused on connecting with actual friends and family, free from ads, algorithms, and influencers. It allows users to share moments and participate in a daily spontaneous photo challenge called a 'Glimpse'.

Highlights
  • Connect with friends and family
  • Share photos anytime
  • Daily spontaneous photo challenge (Glimpse)
  • No feed or algorithm
  • No ads or influencers
  • No follower counts or likes
Features
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Social media wasn't built for your actual friends. It was built to keep you scrolling. Think about it. When did you last open Instagram to see what your best friend is actually doing right now? Instead, you got ads, influencers, and an algorithm deciding what matters. Three hours later, you're watching strangers argue about something you don't care about. Authentic is different. Just your people. Just their faces. Open the app and you see the people who matter to you—what they're doing today, where they are, how they're feeling. No feed. No algorithm. No ads. No influencers. Nothing to scroll. — HOW IT WORKS Share moments with your people whenever you want. A photo from your morning coffee. Your view from the office. Dinner with your family. Your people see it. That's it. But there's also something called a Glimpse. Once a day, at a random time, you get a notification. You have 2 minutes to share a photo—whatever you're doing right now. No planning. No staging. No picking the perfect angle. Just your life, in that moment. You don't pick the perfect moment. The moment picks you. That's what makes it real. Your people are doing the same thing. So you see their unplanned moments too. Tuesday at 2:47pm. Saturday morning still in bed. The boring parts. The real parts. — WHY I BUILT THIS I'm Atin. I got tired of the doom scroll. I wanted a place to see my friends' faces without the noise. Without spending an hour I didn't mean to spend. Without feeling worse after than before. So I built something smaller. Something focused. Something that takes a few minutes a day, not a few hours. No hundred million dollars in funding. No growth hacking. No "engagement optimization." Just a place that respects your time and your relationships. — WHAT YOU GET • Your people's faces, front and center • Share photos anytime, or capture a daily Glimpse • No algorithm deciding what you see • No ads, ever • No follower counts or likes • No strangers, no influencers, no "suggested for you" — The social app for people who are tired of social media. Instagram is for influencers. Authentic is for humans.

About

Hate City

Features
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Hate City is the ultimate complaint platform. Whether it's a terrible product, an awful service experience, a tone-deaf celebrity, or a lying politician — Hate City gives you a place to rant about it. Post rants with rage ratings, attach photos, and find others who feel the same way with the “Me Too” button. Every rant is moderated by AI to keep things on-topic without censoring genuine frustration. Features: • Rant about products, services, celebrities, and politicians • Rage ratings from 1-5 with expressive rage faces • "Me Too" button to show solidarity with other ranters • Subject typeahead to find and link to existing topics • AI-powered moderation that allows profanity but blocks hate speech, threats, and doxxing • Photo attachments (up to 4 per rant) • Threaded comments and replies • Follow, block, and mute other users • Entity pages showing all rants about a specific topic • Push notifications for interactions • Email verification for account security • Full account deletion (GDPR/CCPA compliant) https://hate.city/eula https://hate.city/privacy

Screenshots

Authentic Social Media3 screens
Hate City4 screens

Verdict

The call

Authentic Social Media and Hate City are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Authentic Social Media versus Hate City: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAuthentic Social MediaHate City
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB1 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperAuthentic Technologies Inc.Kevin Stewart

In-app purchases

None

Authentic Social Media

No in-app purchases

None

Hate City

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Authentic Social Media free?
Authentic Social Media is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hate City free?
Hate City is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Authentic Social Media or Hate City have ads?
Neither Authentic Social Media nor Hate City shows ads.

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