Roamate vs ThatOneTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roamate
This app connects solo travelers to share costs and experiences without sacrificing autonomy. It offers a unique 'Solo but Shared' approach, helping users avoid solo travel surcharges and meet like-minded adventurers. Optional safety verification is available for added peace of mind.
- Avoid solo travel surcharges
- Meet like-minded travelers
- Share costs or moments
- Plan trips independently
- Enhanced safety features
- Compatibility-first matching
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STOP PAYING DOUBLE JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE TRAVELING SOLO. Roamate™ is the compatibility-first solo travel app that helps you find compatible travel partners before you book, so you can split costs, travel safer, and stop waiting on flaky friends. SOLO BUT SHARED™ Roamate is built for travelers who want more flexibility than a rigid group tour, and more compatibility than random travel buddy forums or generic travel friend apps. Find a travel buddy, cost splitter, travel companion, or someone to simply meet up with. NOT A DATING APP. NOT A GROUP TOUR. NOT RANDOM. Roamate is a compatibility-first solo travel platform designed to help travelers connect more intentionally before booking trips. HOW ROAMATE WORKS: Take the Vibe Check™ Match with travelers who roam like you through Roamate’s patent-pending multi-variate compatibility engine. Post Trips Before Booking Find people considering similar destinations, timelines, budgets, and travel styles before you pay double to travel solo. Match by Compatibility Travel style matters. Connect based on pace, personality, budget, interests, boundaries, and trip preferences. Split Costs, Keep Your Freedom Share accommodations, transportation, tours, and experiences without giving up your independence. Travel with More Confidence Cleared to Roam™ offers an optional third-party background check for travelers who want an added trust signal before meeting up. YOUR TRIP. YOUR RULES. Whether you want to: • split hotel costs • find a cruise roommate • meet travel buddies • find travel companions • travel solo without feeling unsupported • stop waiting for friends to commit • or simply explore more freely Roamate gives solo travelers another option. Don’t let another trip stall out in the group chat. BEFORE YOU BOOK SOLO, FIND A ROAMATE. The Roamate multi-variate compatibility engine is protected under U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/052,410. Verification is optional and is not a guarantee of safety. Please review Terms & Conditions. © 2025–2026 Roamate, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
ThatOneTime
This app streamlines group trip planning by creating a shared, real-time itinerary accessible to everyone. It consolidates plans, locations, and memories into a single, easy-to-navigate guide, even offline. Users can collaboratively build schedules, explore and add places, and share photos and videos in a unified album.
- Shared, real-time itinerary
- Collaborative planning
- Explore and add places
- Unified photo and video album
- Offline access
- Passwordless sign-in
- Trip recap story
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That One Time replaces the messy group chat with one shared, living guide — for road trips, weddings, reunions, and every "remember that one time…" in between. "Wait — which restaurant did we book for tonight?" "Did anyone actually reserve the tour, or…?" If your group trips live in a 400-message thread, this is for you. ONE PLAN, EVERY PHONE Build the itinerary together — days, activities, travel legs, and where you're staying. Any edit from any phone updates for everyone, instantly. No refresh, no "check the latest version." TODAY, AT A GLANCE The app opens to today: where you're staying, what's planned, and one tap to Maps for whatever is next. PLACES WORTH KEEPING Save restaurants, beaches, wineries, museums, and day trips. Paste a Google Maps link and the details fill themselves in. Tap a place to drop it into any day. THE ALBUM EVERYONE KEEPS Photos from every phone land in one shared album, grouped by the day they were taken. Like them, comment on them, and download the whole set when you're home. No more "can you send me those pics?" EVENTS, TOO Weddings, parties, reunions — give every guest one page for the schedule, the venue, and a shared album that fills up as the night happens. When it's over, the album settles into a recap. INVITE IN SECONDS Send a link or show a QR code. They tap it, they're in. You choose what each person can do: help plan, add photos only, or just follow along. Hand someone a co-host role and they can run the trip alongside you. STAY IN THE LOOP Get notified when someone adds photos, changes the plan, or replies to a comment — grouped rather than one buzz per tap, and switchable per trip. THE RECAP When it's over, That One Time turns the whole thing into a highlights story you can share — the plan, the places, and everyone's photos, day by day. Send it to the people who weren't even there. BUILT FOR THE GROUP Now in English and Spanish, following your device's language. Works on iPhone and iPad. The plan is cached on your phone, so you can check tonight's booking with no signal. Signing in is passwordless — enter your email, tap the code, you're in. Your trips are private to the people you invite, and your photos stay yours. Anything that shouldn't be there can be reported in a couple of taps. That one time you all got away? Keep it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ThatOneTime at 5.0 against Roamate's 4.6. ThatOneTime also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). 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. Roamate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ThatOneTime sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ThatOneTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Roamate's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThatOneTime's.
Roamate ships an update every 6 days, ThatOneTime every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roamate | ThatOneTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roamate, Limited | Gosugi LLC |
Customer experience
Roamate
ThatOneTime
In-app purchases
Roamate
- Premium Plan Month$9.991 Month
- Add-on Background Check$52.991 Year
- Premium Plan Annual$99.991 Year
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- Add On Background$159.991 Year
ThatOneTime
- Unlimited photos (you)$3.99
- Unlimited photos (all)$5.99
- Unlimited photos (all)$8.99
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- Unlimited photos (all)$9.99
- Unlimited photos (all)$12.99
- Unlimited photos (all)2 variants$19.99
- Trip plan: Tour Group$29.99
- Unlimited photos (all)2 variants$29.99
- Unlimited photos (all)$39.99
- Unlimited photos (all)$49.99









