Valid vs Lunchly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Valid | Lunchly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #16 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | RevueAI, Inc | MICHELLE KORENSTEIN SCHORR |
Customer experience
Valid
Lunchly
In-app purchases
Valid
- God Mode$12.497 Days
Lunchly
No in-app purchases









