Comparison

Playdate vs Wazzon

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

Head to head
About

Playdate

Discover local events tailored to your interests, from pop-ups to parties. Connect with friends to see their plans and make new ones effortlessly. Save favorite events, get reminders, and keep your social calendar full.

Highlights
  • Event discovery based on interests
  • Connect with friends and see their plans
  • Discover local businesses and groups
  • Save and share favorite events
  • Get event reminders
  • Constantly updated event listings
Features
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Finding things to do shouldn’t be hard. Playdate helps you discover events, connect with friends, and actually make plans happen. From pop-ups and workshops to classes and parties, there’s always something new to experience. Features You’ll Love: 1. Discover Events Effortlessly: Get events recommended based on your interests. Pop-ups, workshops, classes, parties, and more are all in one place so you never miss out. 2. Connect With Friends: See what events your friends are going to and make new plans instantly. 3. Explore Businesses & Local Groups: Discover events hosted by local businesses and groups and join the fun. 4. Plan with Ease: Save your favorite events, share them with friends, get reminders, and always know what’s happening next. 5. Constantly Updating: New events every time you open Playdate. The best way to fill your social calendar. Stop wondering what to do and start making it happen. Discover, plan, and enjoy events with friends — all in one app. Playdate makes your social life effortless and fun.

About

Wazzon

Discover what your friends are watching and share your own recommendations. This app helps you find new shows and movies based on trusted tastes, avoiding endless scrolling and lost screenshots. Organize your watchlists and connect with friends through shared viewing experiences.

Highlights
  • See what friends are watching
  • Share and save recommendations
  • Create custom watchlists
  • Chronological friend feed
  • Log and rate watched titles
  • Chat with friends
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WAZZON is a better way to figure out what to watch next. Because somehow, with more movies, shows, apps, and algorithms than ever, we still end up texting someone: “What should I watch?” WAZZON turns those recommendations into something you can actually use. See what your friends are watching. Share what you love. Save what you want to watch. And keep it all together, no matter where it’s streaming. No endless scrolling. No screenshots you’ll never find again. No trying to remember the show someone told you about three weeks ago. Just good stuff, recommended by people whose taste you actually trust. WAZZON is for friends - See what your friends are watching and sharing - Follow your friends' lists and compare what you want to watch - Wazzon gets better when you bring in the people you want to watch with WAZZON's is watching, logging, sharing, and recommending to friends - Log TV & Movie watches - Rate titles you watch - Create and share what you are watching - Recommend and ask for recos from your friends - React and share with friends WAZZON's feed - Chronological feed of your friends’ posts. No algorithmic ranking, no ads, no engagement bait - Friends can comment and react to posts - Your Sunday Weekly Recap is the full story of what your friends watched that week - Customize your profile with your Top 5, lists, and posts Discover new titles and recs from friends - Discover friends' top picks, your friends’ top TV and top movies, and recs filtered by streaming platform - View a title and see what friends are saying, who’s watched it, which episode they are on, and which lists it’s in - View Trailers and clips of new titles

 Create and share Watchlists - Unlimited custom lists, reorderable, with per-list visibility - Share any list by link or share to your feed - Make lists with friends, adding, removing, and reordering together - See what friends are watching and filter by recommended or passed - Import from text: paste your list into Wazzon and choose what to add
 Chat with Friends - Chat with friends, both individual and group chats - Set What’s Next for your friends and watch by a specific date - Find out together when a new episode drops - Recommend titles amongst friends

Screenshots

Playdate3 screens
Wazzon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Playdate at 154 against Wazzon's 12. Wazzon's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Playdate against 5.0 for Wazzon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Playdate has 154 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Playdate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wazzon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Playdate ships an update every 2 weeks, Wazzon every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Playdate versus Wazzon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaydateWazzon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (154 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings154 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB42 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperSteven LaGuardiaFriday Vibes, Inc.

Customer experience

Playdate

All ratings154 ratings
Positive99.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Wazzon

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Playdate

No in-app purchases

None

Wazzon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Playdate free?
Playdate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wazzon free?
Wazzon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Playdate or Wazzon?
Playdate and Wazzon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 154 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do Playdate or Wazzon have ads?
Neither Playdate nor Wazzon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Playdate or Wazzon?
Playdate ships an update every 2 weeks, and Wazzon every 9 days. Most recently, Playdate was updated on November 8, 2026 and Wazzon on November 10, 2026.

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