Comparison

Oldsta vs RELAY

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

Head to head
About

Oldsta

This social networking app focuses on simple photo sharing without algorithmic feeds or pressure. Users can post memories, apply filters, tag friends and hashtags, and view a clean feed of updates from their connections.

Highlights
  • Clean photo feed
  • OG filters
  • Tag friends and hashtags
  • No algorithmic feed
  • Simple interface
Features
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Tired of noisy feeds and performative posting? Oldsta brings photo sharing back to basics: a clean feed, OG filters, tags, and friends. Download Oldsta now and share a few favorites today. No endless features, no performative vibe, no pressure to be “on” 24/7. Post new memories, add filters, tag your friends and hashtags, and see what everyone’s sharing in a clean, straightforward feed.

About

RELAY

Features
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RELAY is a chat app that forgets. Every conversation keeps only the messages that fit inside its window. Whatever scrolls past the top corrupts, dissolves and is wiped from the server. Not hidden. Not archived. Gone. If you weren't there, you missed it — the way conversation worked before everything became a permanent record. It looks like an app running inside an operating system that no longer exists. Windows with bevelled edges, a taskbar, a desktop with icons you can drag around, and a chat that behaves like the IRC clients of the late nineties: nicknames in colour, a user list you can call up, channel operators, and slash commands for people who remember them. WHAT'S INSIDE • Public channels and private ones, opened with a channel key • Direct messages • Nicknames that belong to you until you change them • The full IRC hierarchy: owner, admin, operator, half-operator, voice • Commands: /op /kick /nick /query /me /ignore and the rest • A desktop with a paint program, a scores file, and a folder of games THE DESKTOP Because the app pretends to be an operating system, it came with an operating system's furniture. There's a paint program with a spray can. There's a folder with minesweeper, a ski run with something hunting you, solitaire, and a brick breaker with ten levels. There's a file that keeps your high scores — the one thing in RELAY that is allowed to remember. BOOM.EXE Hidden on the desktop is a first-person shooter in the shape of the ones that came on shareware discs. Textured walls, a shotgun, eight demons and a lever that ends the level. Sold separately, once, forever. SEVENTEEN LOOKS Every theme re-tints and re-fonts the entire app — a Windows 9x chat client, an amber terminal, a green phosphor screen, a Workbench desktop, a teletext page, a 1-bit black and white machine that turns the games monochrome too. Two are free. The rest, and the wallpapers, can be bought one at a time or all at once. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S NOT RELAY is free to download, and everything you need to chat is included: public and private channels, direct messages, all four base games, two themes and the default look. The following are optional, one-time in-app purchases — never required to use the app: - Extra themes (16 more), one at a time or all at once in a bundle - Extra wallpapers and screen savers - BOOM.EXE, the shooter No subscriptions. Anything you buy is yours forever. PRIVACY, NOT AS A FEATURE BUT AS A SHAPE You sign in with Apple and we never ask for your name or your email. Your profile is a nickname. Your messages delete themselves. There is no advertising, no analytics, and nothing to sell, because there is nothing kept. It's a chat room. It's the size of a window. Then it's gone.

Screenshots

Oldsta3 screens
RELAY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Oldsta at none against RELAY's 10. On price, ads, device support 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. RELAY sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Oldsta asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Oldsta versus RELAY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOldstaRELAY
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB19 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperOldsta LLCMiguel Vilhena

In-app purchases

None

Oldsta

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

RELAY

One-time10
  • Navy Wallpaper$0.99
  • Custom Photo Wallpaper$0.99
  • Diagonal Pattern$0.99
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  • Grid Pattern$0.99
  • Noise Pattern$0.99
  • Tiles Pattern$0.99
  • Waves Pattern$0.99
  • AQUARIUM Screen Saver$0.99
  • MAZE Screen Saver$0.99
  • PIPES Screen Saver$0.99

Questions

Is Oldsta free?
Oldsta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RELAY free?
RELAY is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Oldsta or RELAY have ads?
Neither Oldsta nor RELAY shows ads.

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