Peek vs Melange
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Peek
Connect with people around you in real-time through live group chats. This app facilitates authentic conversations based on physical proximity, ideal for students to find classmates, study partners, or new friends on campus.
- Live location-based group chats
- University, major, and class-based chats
- Automatic class group chats
- Conversation prompts
- Expiring chats
- Community chats at favorite places
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Campus curiosity just became competitive. PEEK by Butterfly Social Network is a social discovery app that turns profile views into a guessing game. Discover students from your university or explore profiles from universities everywhere, then take a peek at anyone who catches your attention. When someone visits your profile, you’ll receive three possible profiles and have 10 seconds to guess who peeked. Guess correctly, and you can connect with them. Guess incorrectly, and their identity stays a mystery forever. HOW PEEK WORKS • Discover people from your university • Explore students through the All Universities tab • Check out profiles and learn more about the people around you • Grow your Aura with every Peek • Peek at someone who catches your attention • Choose between three possible profiles when someone peeks at you • Guess correctly to unlock the connection • Start chatting and see where it goes PEEK makes meeting people feel exciting again. No endless swiping, forced introductions, or awkward first messages. It adds a little curiosity, mystery, and campus competition to your life. Whether you’re looking for new friends, classmates, campus connections, or someone you’ve secretly noticed, it all starts with one peek. Someone peeked at you. Can you guess who?
Melange
Connect with other creatives to find collaborators for your projects. Discover photographers, models, stylists, and more, and build your portfolio together. Features include private chats for events and a robust reporting system for safety.
- Discover creative professionals
- Swipe through creatives and projects
- Heart and connect with users
- Event chats and photo sharing
- Credit collaborators on projects
- Account safety and reporting
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Melange is where creative people find their next collaboration. A photographer needs a model. A model needs a stylist. A filmmaker needs a whole crew. On Melange you find people whose work fits yours, see who's into what you make, and make something together. DISCOVER Swipe through creatives and projects near you: photographers, models, makeup artists, stylists, hair, videographers, directors, musicians and more. Melange learns your taste from the work you make and like. HEARTS Heart someone's work and they find out it was you. When someone hearts yours, you can write back right away. EVENTS Photo walks, shoot nights, open calls. Everyone going shares a chat before, and afterwards the photos are private to the people who were there. You can quietly heart anyone you met; they only find out if they hearted you too. CREDITS Post what you made and credit everyone on it. It shows on your profile, and on theirs. SAFETY Every account is 18+. Block or report any person, post or message; a person reads every report. Your data is locked to your account, and you can delete everything from inside the app. Starting around USC, UCSD and LA.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Melange at 5.0 against Peek's 4.5. Melange also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Peek's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Melange holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Peek has 39 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Peek ships an update fortnightly, Melange every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Peek | Melange |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Butterfly Social Network, Inc. | jolea hutt |
Customer experience
Peek
Melange
Bugs and requests
Peek
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login issues
- Compatibility problems on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More customization options
- Improved event discovery
- Better privacy controls
Melange
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Peek
No in-app purchases
Melange
No in-app purchases
