The Ick + vs Pulsing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Ick +
Gain deep insights into your social media performance with detailed audience analytics, follower tracking, and content creation tools. Optimize your strategy with AI-powered idea generation, post scheduling, and hashtag suggestions. Manage multiple accounts securely and visualize trends over time.
- Audience insights and follower tracking
- AI Chat for content ideas
- Post scheduler
- Grid Maker for photo layouts
- Hashtag library
- Multiple profile management
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Our app is a powerful analytics platform designed to help you optimize your social media performance. It offers detailed audience insights, tracking follower gains and losses from the moment you log in, and provides comprehensive lists of mutual followers, inactive followers, and those who have unfollowed. You can visualize trends through easy-to-read charts for different periods—weekly, monthly, or yearly. The app also includes smart content creation tools, such as an AI Chat to generate ideas and interact with your audience, a post scheduler to plan your content, a Grid Maker for cropping photos into a cohesive layout, and a hashtag library to find trending tags and boost your visibility. Secure account management is guaranteed with real-time data sync and seamless switching between multiple profiles. The free version gives you access to basic features, while a subscription unlocks unlimited account tracking, advanced analytics, and full access to all premium tools. This app offers auto-renewing subscriptions and in-app purchases: 1 week (Weekly) – $4.99 USD 1 month (Monthly) – $12.99 USD 1 year (Yearly) – $39.99 USD Lifetime – $59.99 USD You may cancel your subscription at any time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SgJysjoGIiYOkcchZUN2PsBVuOEKVpYetBazt-T6zec/edit
Pulsing
Connect with individuals who share your aspirations, schedule, and location to transform intentions into actions. Create and discover shared goals for activities like fitness, study, or travel, and initiate conversations to plan your next steps together.
- Create custom 'pulses' for shared activities
- Discover recommendations based on pulse details
- Connect with mutual interests
- Coordinate plans and take action together
- Supports various goals: fitness, study, travel, creativity, and more
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Pulsing helps you find people who share your goal, timing, interests, and location so you can turn an intention into action. Create a pulse to share what you want to do, when you want to do it, and the area that works for you. Discover recommendations grounded in the details of your pulse. When the interest is mutual, start a conversation, coordinate the details, and take the first step together. Whether your goal is fitness, study, travel, building a product, exploring outdoors, creativity, volunteering, or culture, Pulsing is a network for doing—not just following. Optional auto-renewing Featured and Gold subscriptions are available in monthly and annual plans. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pulsegroup.top/app-store/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pulsing at 100% against The Ick +'s 0%. Pulsing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). The Ick +'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. The Ick + sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Pulsing sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pulsing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of The Ick +'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Pulsing's.
The Ick + ships an update every 6 weeks, Pulsing every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.
| Parameter | The Ick + | Pulsing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cruz Hamlin | Sadra Makhmali |
Customer experience
The Ick +
Pulsing
In-app purchases
The Ick +
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Weekly-Trial3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly$12.991 Month
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- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
Pulsing
- Featured Monthly$1.491 Month
- Featured Annual$12.491 Year
- Gold Monthly$14.991 Month
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- Gold Annual$124.991 Year
