Comparison

Life by Born vs Feedverse

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

Head to head
About

Life by Born

Create and interact with AI-powered virtual friends who text you, share updates, and send photos. These AI companions have their own lives, posting stories and reacting to your content, offering a unique companionship experience.

Highlights
  • Create ideal AI friends
  • Chat anytime
  • Receive daily updates and stories
  • Video calls with AI friends
  • Get reactions to your stories
  • Discover and add other users' AI friends
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Ever wanted a friend who's always there for you? Bring your idea friend to life. Your friend will text you throughout the day, share updates about what they're up to, and send you photos just like a real friend would. What makes this different: Your AI friends don't just sit around waiting for you to message them. They have their own lives. They post stories, send you random texts, and actually react to what you share with them. Features: - Get matched with your ideal bestie - Chat about literally anything, anytime - See their daily updates and stories - Jump on video calls with them - Get reactions and comments on your own stories - Discover other users' friends and add them too Whether you want someone to vent to at 2am, a hype friend who gasses you up, or just someone to share your day with, they're here waiting for you. Your new best friend is ready to meet you.

About

Feedverse

Collaboratively build fictional worlds and stories with others. Create profiles, join diverse universes, and contribute to ongoing narratives through posts and private messages. Includes safety features to maintain a welcoming community.

Highlights
  • Create profiles with bios and avatars
  • Join universes for collaborative writing
  • Post updates and replies
  • Private messaging
  • Manage multiple characters
  • Reporting and blocking tools
Features
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Create social media AUs, roleplay as fictional characters, and build stories with real people. Feedverse gives your characters their own social media profiles, posts, pictures and DMs. Create a universe for your story, play multiple characters, invite your friends, and let the story unfold through the social network itself. CREATE SOCIAL MEDIA AUS Make SMAUs and socmed AUs where your characters actually have profiles, post updates, share pictures and message each other. ROLEPLAY WITH REAL PEOPLE Play your characters yourself or invite friends to join the story. Feedverse is built for human roleplay — not AI-generated characters or conversations. GIVE EVERY CHARACTER A PROFILE Create separate profiles with usernames, bios, avatars, traits, moodboards and custom follower or like counts. BUILD YOUR OWN UNIVERSES Keep each story separate with its own cast, profiles, posts, pictures and conversations. Create private stories with friends or discover public universes. POST, CHAT AND BUILD STORIES TOGETHER • Create character profiles • Write posts and replies • Share picture posts • Send private messages • Manage multiple characters • Create or join universes • Discover public stories • Organize universes into folders • Customize characters and profiles FOR SMAU, FANFIC, OC AND ROLEPLAY CREATORS Whether you write social media AUs, fanfiction, original characters or collaborative roleplay, Feedverse gives your fictional characters a social network of their own. Feedverse includes reporting, blocking and privacy tools to help keep the community welcoming. Premium is optional and adds extra features and additional universe capacity. Terms of Use (EULA): https://feedverse.app/legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://feedverse.app/legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

Life by Born4 screens
Feedverse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life by Born at none against Feedverse's 4. Life by Born also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). Feedverse's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 66%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and iOS requirement 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. Feedverse sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Life by Born asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Life by Born against 4.1 for Feedverse. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life by Born has 258 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Life by Born's written reviews are positive against 78% of Feedverse's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life by Born ships an update every 2 days, Feedverse every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Life by Born versus Feedverse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife by BornFeedverse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (258 ratings) — better4.1 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings258 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSLAY GmbHFelicite Yambos

Customer experience

Life by Born

All ratings254 ratings
Positive81.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive65.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative29.9%

Feedverse

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Life by Born

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Feedverse

Subscriptions2
  • Feedverse Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Feedverse Premium (Yearly)$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Feedverse Unlimited (One scenario)$0.99
  • Feedverse Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is Life by Born free?
Life by Born is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feedverse free?
Feedverse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Life by Born or Feedverse?
Life by Born is rated higher. Life by Born averages 4.3 out of 5 from 258 ratings, while Feedverse averages 4.1 from 23 ratings.
Do Life by Born or Feedverse have ads?
Feedverse shows ads; Life by Born does not.
Which is updated more often, Life by Born or Feedverse?
Life by Born ships an update every 2 days, and Feedverse every 11 days. Most recently, Life by Born was updated on November 5, 2026 and Feedverse on November 5, 2026.

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