Comparison

Recs vs Deline

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

Head to head
About

Recs

This app helps you discover, save, and organize places like restaurants, bars, and cafes. It uses AI to recommend new spots based on your saved preferences and allows collaborative trip planning with friends. Easily add places from social media or notes.

Highlights
  • Save spots from social media instantly
  • Organize by city, category, and custom collections
  • AI-powered recommendations based on taste
  • Collaborative trip planning with friends
  • Add spots via links, notes, or manual entry
  • Share city lists and recommendations
  • View saved spots on a world map
Features
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Recs is your personal spot guide — the place where every restaurant, bar, café, and city you want to explore actually lives. Save from TikTok & Instagram — instantly. See a spot on your feed? Share the link to Recs and we automatically extract the name, address, category, ratings, and photos. No copy-pasting. No losing it in your notes. It's saved, organized, and ready when you need it. Everything organized the way you think. Your Recs library sorts by city, category, and custom collections. Flying to New York? Pull up your New York list. Craving ramen? Check your Restaurants. Building a weekend itinerary? Your spots are already there. The world map shows exactly where your saved spots are — city by city, country by country. Rex: Your AI that actually knows your taste. Rex is Recs' built-in AI that reads your saved spots and recommends what to do next. Ask "best cocktail bars in New York" and Rex won't give you a generic top-10 list — it responds knowing you already saved Attaboy and suggests what you'd love next, with inline save buttons right in the chat. Plan trips together. Build collaborative trip itineraries with friends — add stops, set dates, create walking routes with ETAs, and export directly to Google Maps. Whether it's a Friday night out or a week abroad, every plan lives in one place. More ways to add spots: Paste a TikTok or Instagram URL — AI does the rest Paste your messy Notes app list — AI sorts it into spots and trips automatically Type a name and city — Recs finds the details Share your city lists. Follow friends, swap recommendations, and send collections via link to anyone — even if they don't have the app yet. Powered by real data. Every spot is enriched with ratings, photos, hours, menus, and addresses via Google Places. Head-to-head comparison mode lets you rank your favorites when you can't decide. Built for how you actually discover places. The For You feed surfaces spots curated for your taste right now — whether you're planning a date night, a late-night bite, or a day in an unfamiliar city. Works in 13 languages. Full dark mode. No ads.

About

Deline

Features
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Every group trip has the same three problems. Nobody knows what time anything starts. Every booking is a screenshot buried in a chat somewhere. And one person has quietly paid for most of it. Deline fixes all three. THE LINE Your trip runs as a single line down the screen, the way a metro map works. Four colored rails run alongside it: food, activities, stays and transport. Every plan is a stop on one of them, in the order it actually happens, so you can read the shape of a whole day without reading a word. Tap a stop and everything about it is there. Start and end times. The address, with directions one tap away. The booking reference. Photos from the group. What it cost and who it was split between. GETTING THINGS ONTO IT Add a stop by hand in a few taps. Or just share the confirmation. Drop in a flight PDF or a screenshot of a hotel booking and Deline reads it, then builds the stop for you: times, airports, dates, reference number. If something is missing it asks you for it instead of guessing. THE MONEY, WHICH IS THE REAL REASON Point the camera at a receipt and Deline reads it line by line. Then you tap faces against items. The two beers are yours, the table shared the bread. Currency is converted on the way in, so a 20 dollar run to 7-Eleven lands in the trip in euros and nobody opens a calculator. Costs that are not receipts go in just as fast. Split evenly, or pick exactly who was there. Then the part that matters. Deline keeps the balances up to date and reduces them to the shortest set of payments. Six people who owe each other in every direction usually settle in two or three transfers instead of fifteen. Do it mid-trip or on the way home. THE GROUP Send one link. People join with their own name and photo, and from then on everyone is looking at the same trip. Someone moves dinner an hour and it moves on five phones at once. No forwarding, no version of the plan that only exists on one person's device. FREE AND PREMIUM Deline is free, and the free version is the actual app. The line, the trip, the splitting, the settle-up. None of the trip is behind a wall. Premium raises the limits: more receipt scans, more booking imports, more photos on the trip. It also works the way group trips work. If one person on the trip has Premium, the higher limits apply to everyone on that trip. Only one of you needs to pay. Your Trip, One Line.

Screenshots

Recs4 screens
Deline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recs at none against Deline's 2. Recs also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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. Deline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Recs asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recs ships an update every 3 days, Deline weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Recs versus Deline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecsDeline
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcus HandojoAdam Hessel

In-app purchases

None

Recs

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Deline

Subscriptions2
  • Tripline Premium$3.991 Month
  • Tripline Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Recs free?
Recs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deline free?
Deline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recs or Deline have ads?
Neither Recs nor Deline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recs or Deline?
Recs ships an update every 3 days, and Deline weekly. Most recently, Recs was updated on November 5, 2026 and Deline on October 31, 2026.

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