Comparison

Valid vs Lunchly

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

Head to head
About

Valid

This app facilitates anonymous positive polling within school communities. Users answer questions about friends, earn points, and receive compliments, fostering kindness and connection. It prioritizes safety through moderation and connects users only with their contacts and schoolmates.

Highlights
  • Anonymous positive polling
  • Earn aura points and climb leaderboards
  • Receive compliments and votes
  • Chat with classmates
  • School-wide activity feed
  • Moderated and safe interactions
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Compliment Your Classmates. Be kind. Don't bully. Everything is moderated. Valid is the anonymous polling app made for your school community. Answer fun, positive questions about friends and classmates, earn aura points, and see the compliments you receive. No random friend requests or strangers. Valid connects you with people from your contacts and school. Moderation and safety tools help keep every interaction positive and respectful. How It Works • Answer daily polls about friends and classmates • Vote anonymously—or choose to reveal yourself • Earn aura and climb your school’s leaderboard • See compliments and votes in your personal feed • Chat with classmates • Explore school-wide activity and trending polls By using Valid, you agree to our Terms of Service.

About

Lunchly

Easily coordinate lunch plans with friends without the clutter of group chats. Simply pick friends, a day, and a location, then see who's confirmed to attend at a glance. Ideal for open campus environments where spontaneous meetups are common.

Highlights
  • Coordinate lunch with friends
  • Select friends and a day
  • Specify meeting location
  • See who's attending at a glance
  • Update plans easily
  • Share invite codes or QR codes
Features
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Lunchly is a small, direct way to sort out lunch with your friends: ask a few people, say where you're meeting, and see who's actually coming. No group chat to scroll back through, no arguing in three places at once. HOW IT WORKS • Pick friends and a day. Anything else is optional. • Say where to meet — the community theater, Donahue, the cafeteria. Whatever your group actually says. • Going out or bringing your own. If you're going out, add where. • Everyone gets a notification and answers Going or Can't go. • You see who's in at a glance. Confirmed in green, still waiting in grey. BUILT FOR AN OPEN CAMPUS Lunchly was made for Berkeley High School, where students leave campus for lunch. It assumes you already know your friends and just need to agree on a plan — so there's no feed, no follower count, and nothing to scroll. FINDING FRIENDS Share a personal invite code or QR code, or find people already on Lunchly from your contacts. Only the contacts you choose are ever checked, and phone numbers are never stored in readable form. PLANS THAT CHANGE Move the day, change the meeting spot, add someone late. Everyone on the lunch sees what changed and gets asked to confirm again if the day moves. PRIVACY • Sign in with Apple. No password to make or forget. • A phone number is optional and only used to help friends find you. It's stored as a one-way hash, never as a number. • No ads, no tracking, no analytics sold to anyone. • Block or report anyone, and delete your account and all its data from inside the app.

Screenshots

Valid4 screens
Lunchly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lunchly at none against Valid's 1. Lunchly also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Valid's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 2) and chart position (#16 vs unranked). 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. Valid sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.49 per 7 days. Lunchly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lunchly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Valid has 12K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Valid versus Lunchly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterValidLunchly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (12K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings12K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB19 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperRevueAI, IncMICHELLE KORENSTEIN SCHORR

Customer experience

Valid

All ratings12,481 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews380 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative17.6%

Lunchly

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Valid

Subscriptions1
  • God Mode$12.497 Days
None

Lunchly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Valid free?
Valid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lunchly free?
Lunchly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Valid or Lunchly?
Lunchly is rated higher. Valid averages 4.8 out of 5 from 12K ratings, while Lunchly averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Valid or Lunchly have ads?
Neither Valid nor Lunchly shows ads.

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