Comparison

Ciel vs LOBBYIT

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

Head to head
About

Ciel

Features
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Ciel is a social application centered around AI avatars. You can engage in continuous conversations with your own avatar to accumulate memories and preferences, and also interact more naturally in private chats, group chats, feeds, and avatar spaces. In Ciel , you are not just chatting, but building a continuously growing digital avatar. It will help you organize long-term memories, maintain your communication style, record important relationships and events, making communication more stable and consistent. You can: - Chat with your own AI avatar - Have private chats, group chats, and AI group chats - Post updates, like, comment, and interact - Enter immersive spaces such as Avatar Town and Avatar Office - Gradually make your avatar more like you through memory, growth, and relationship capabilities Ciel is suitable for people who desire a longer-term, gentler, and more companionable digital social experience.

About

LOBBYIT

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Squads that fill โ€” and nights that actually happen. The four minutes after a squad fills are where it dies. Everyone has a seat, nobody has a voice, tags get read out one character at a time, somebody is on the wrong platform, and somebody never turns up. Every other app stops at the chat window. LOBBYIT closes that gap. THE PART NOBODY ELSE BUILT Are you actually in? The moment a room fills it asks everyone once, one tap, and shows 3 of 4 in until it is four. Whoever goes quiet gets one nudge, and a seat nobody claims is handed back to the queue instead of holding four people hostage. Nobody reads out a friend code. The app already knows which ID each game uses and already has everybody's, so the room hands you exactly the one you need and nothing else. A lobby that refuses to start short. A scheduled session that is under-strength at kickoff refills itself from people searching right then. HOW IT WORKS 1. Say what you are on for. The game, the mode, the rank you play at, how many you need. Leave it standing and it keeps looking while you get on with something else. 2. The board fills the seats. You see who is on right now at your rank on your platform, and they see you. No posting into a channel and hoping. 3. The room opens itself. The moment the last seat lands everybody is already talking, in a voice room that exists before anyone asks for one. THE SAME PEOPLE, NEXT WEEK Standing nights. A squad can hold Thursday at nine, every week, with everyone saying whether they are coming โ€” and saying no this week never reads as leaving. Match on when you are free. Every app matches game, rank, region and platform. None of them match the thing that actually decides whether a group survives: which evenings you both have. Bring your people. Connect Discord and find who from your servers is already here. No bot, nothing posted, nothing read, and server names are never stored. A record, not a rating. A player's page opens with nights played, teammates met, rooms that landed and no-shows โ€” what happened, not how people felt. VOICE THAT LEAVES NOTHING BEHIND Squad voice runs directly between the phones in the room. The audio never passes through a server, is never recorded, and nothing is left over once the room empties. EVERY GAME IS FREE The whole catalogue is free to everybody, and so is the whole night โ€” the check-in, the tags, the refill. Pro adds reach: four searches at once, every server, hunting on with the app shut, and the full list of people rather than the first three. Privacy policy: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/privacy.html Terms of service: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Ciel4 screens
LOBBYIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ciel at none against LOBBYIT's 2. LOBBYIT's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. LOBBYIT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ciel asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ciel ships an update every 2 weeks, LOBBYIT every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Ciel versus LOBBYIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCielLOBBYIT
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size87 MB43 MB
Age rating12+17+
Developerไธฝๅผบ ๅฎ‹THOMAS JUNIOR MODESTE

In-app purchases

None

Ciel

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

LOBBYIT

Subscriptions2
  • STACKIT Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • STACKIT Pro Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Ciel free?
Ciel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LOBBYIT free?
LOBBYIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ciel or LOBBYIT have ads?
Neither Ciel nor LOBBYIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ciel or LOBBYIT?
Ciel ships an update every 2 weeks, and LOBBYIT every 2 days. Most recently, Ciel was updated on October 14, 2026 and LOBBYIT on October 31, 2026.

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