Current vs .i.s.o.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Current
Discover local events and plan outings with friends effortlessly. This app consolidates all happenings in your city, from concerts to pop-ups, and streamlines group planning with clear RSVPs and smart invitations for limited spots. Organize contacts into circles for quick invites and follow favorite venues for real-time updates.
- Discover local events and venues
- Plan events with friends
- Clear RSVP system
- Wave invitations for limited spots
- Organize contacts into Circles
- Follow venues and curators
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What's happening tonight? This weekend? Right now? Current is the only app you need to discover what's going on around you and get your friends together to do it. No more group chat chaos. No more Googling "things to do." Just open Current and go. DISCOVER EVERYTHING HAPPENING AROUND YOU Current brings together every event, venue, and experience in your city, all in one place. Browse concerts, happy hours, pop-ups, festivals, open mics, game nights, and more. Follow your favorite bars, restaurants, and event companies to get updates the moment they post something new. Explore curated guides from local tastemakers who know the best spots before everyone else does. Whether you're planning ahead or looking for something right now, Current has you covered. PLAN WITH FRIENDS WITHOUT THE MESS Group chats are where plans go to die. Forty-seven messages, no decision, and someone still doesn't know what time to show up. Current fixes this. Create an event, invite your people, and get clear RSVPs; going, maybe, or not going. Everyone sees the details. Everyone knows the plan. No ambiguity, no chaos. Organize your contacts into Circles: your college friends, your work crew, your weekend warriors. So the right people are always one tap away. WAVE INVITATIONS - SMART INVITES FOR LIMITED SPOTS Got 5 tickets to the game? A dinner reservation for 8? Wave invitations are built for exactly this. Set your capacity, arrange your invite list by priority, and let Current handle the rest. Invitations go out in waves, if someone in the first group doesn't respond in time, the next person in line gets the invite automatically. No awkward "sorry, someone else already took your spot" texts. No manual tracking. Just set it and forget it. FOLLOW THE PLACES AND PEOPLE YOU LOVE Subscribe to venues and businesses to see their events, specials, and announcements right in your feed. Follow local curators and influencers who spotlight the best things happening around town. Your feed is shaped by what you actually care about, not an algorithm guessing what you might click on. BUILT FOR YOUR CITY Current isn't a massive directory pulling data from everywhere with no real insight. It's built to feel like your city's go-to source, like having a friend who knows everyone and everything happening. Dense, curated, and local. The kind of app that makes you excited about where you live. KEY FEATURES - Browse and discover local events, venues, and experiences - Create personal events and invite friends with clear RSVPs - Wave invitations for limited-capacity plans - Organize contacts into Circles for faster planning - Follow venues, event companies, and local curators - Curated guides and recommendations from people who know your city - Real-time event details: times, locations, who's going FOR BUSINESSES AND VENUES Current also offers tools for local businesses to connect with people who actually want to hear from them. Post events, manage your profile, and build a subscriber base of high-intent customers: people who chose to follow you because they're ready to go out and do something.
.i.s.o.
A calm, ad-free social space for artists and art lovers. Focuses on showcasing art without algorithmic manipulation or profit-driven exploitation. Offers detailed image information and a curated experience.
- No algorithmic feed manipulation
- Ad-free experience
- Detailed image information (lens, shutter, histogram)
- Curated discovery of art
- User profiles as portraits
- Advanced search filters
- Screenshot disabling for content protection
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Most apps want more of you. More time, more taps, more of your attention sold to whoever's buying. .i.s.o. wants less. It's a small, calm place for photographers, artists, and the people who love their work, built on the "radical" idea that you should be able to look at something beautiful without being exploited for profit. There's no algorithm here deciding what you see. No advertising snuck between the images. No artificial intelligence shaping the feed, writing the captions, or guessing what you'll tap next. Only art, made by people, shown honestly. Inside, things move slowly on purpose. You'll find photographs you'd never have come across otherwise and feeds that hold still instead of chasing your attention. A map that lights up wherever work is being made, gathered into a heatmap rather than a pin, so you can wander without anyone tracking where a photo was taken. Images shown one at a time, given room to breathe, with the lens, shutter speed, and histogram a slide away. Leave a heartbeat for the work you love or keep an inspiration for the few pieces you can't forget. Your profile reads more like a portrait than a form - your gear, your collections, the artists who shaped you. Nothing here is built to be measured against anyone else. And when you go looking, the filter actually narrows: by subject, medium, gear, or color, stacked to further refine your search. Every long exposure of water. Every street frame shot on 35mm. Exactly what you came for, and nothing sponsored in the way. It's all lovingly tended by hand. Screenshots are disabled, so your work can't be scraped, and your photographs never train a generative model or live anywhere else online. When something's reported, a person reads it, and if someone has to leave, they're told why. It costs one dollar a month, and that dollar is used purely to keep the services running. Your data isn't for sale because there's no one to sell it to. The app answers to you, because you're the one it's for. If you make things, or simply love the art people create, we would love to have you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Current at none against .i.s.o.'s 1. Current also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. .i.s.o. sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.00 per month. Current asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Current against 5.0 for .i.s.o.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Current ships an update every 3 days, .i.s.o. every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Current | .i.s.o. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Current-App | brandon owen |
Customer experience
Current
.i.s.o.
In-app purchases
Current
No in-app purchases
.i.s.o.
- .i.s.o.$1.001 Month





