The Pivot Point vs Making Sense Community
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Pivot Point
Connect with like-minded individuals in a social media platform focused on community building and conscious creation. Discover and join global communities, share diverse content, and engage in real-time conversations and events.
- Discover and join communities
- Global and personalized feeds
- Create posts (photos, videos, audio, text, documents)
- Real-time conversations
- Browse events
- Conscious creation focus
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The Pivot Point app is a social media where users can discover and join communities, browse a global feed and a personalised communities feed, create and view posts (photos, videos, audio, documents, and text), participate in real-time conversations with other users, and browse events. The Pivot Point is an invitation to participate in the transformation of humanity. An invitation to create our world consciously personally and collectively. The Pivot Point is a platform to build communities for individuals coming together to shape their lives consciously and in that play a role in shaping a conscious humanity. Grounded in the science of creation, this where we move beyond survival, to living in conscious creation.
Making Sense Community
A community for thoughtful discussion and idea exchange, prioritizing intellectual honesty and civil discourse. Members use real names and engage in focused conversations on diverse topics, fostering genuine connections.
- Real name profiles
- Focused discussion threads
- Direct messaging
- Customizable notifications
- Intellectual honesty focus
- Healthy moderation
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The Making Sense Community is a dedicated place for curious minds to trade ideas, sharpen their thinking, follow good arguments wherever they lead, and have fun doing it. This is not another social network. Members use their full, real names, and we do not optimize for engagement, outrage, or any of the other mechanisms that have made the existing platforms so poisonous. This is a community in a more traditional sense—one that is organized around shared interests and the working assumption that the people you are talking with are arguing in good faith. Topics consist of current events, politics, books, spirituality, health, film, travel, as well as episodes of the Making Sense podcast and whatever else is on your mind. The most important house rules are intellectual honesty and basic decency. Keep it civil, don’t spam or self-promote, steelman before you criticize, and don’t use AI as a replacement for your own voice. Within that, this is meant to be a genuinely good time. Inside, you'll find: • Sam showing up how he would in a chat with people he trusts: dropping links he’s come across, reacting to events in the news, floating ideas that aren't yet ready for an episode of the podcast. • Member-created threads on wide-ranging topics. • Member profiles and direct messaging, so the connections you make here don't have to stay inside a single thread. • Notifications you control, so the community is available when you want it and quiet when you don't. • Healthy moderation that protects the space for the community by removing anyone engaging in toxic behavior. Come join our community of curious, sharp, good-humored people who take ideas seriously without taking themselves too seriously. *Names and images in the screenshots have been changed for privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Pivot Point at weekly against Making Sense Community's every 2 months. Making Sense Community's advantage is ratings volume (164 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Pivot Point holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Making Sense Community has 164 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of The Pivot Point's written reviews are positive against 93% of Making Sense Community's.
The Pivot Point ships an update weekly, Making Sense Community every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Pivot Point | Making Sense Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (164 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 164 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zazen Worldwide | MAKING SENSE MEDIA LLC |
Customer experience
The Pivot Point
Making Sense Community
In-app purchases
The Pivot Point
No in-app purchases
Making Sense Community
No in-app purchases
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