Comparison

WeekendPlans vs giftstring

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

Head to head
About

WeekendPlans

Easily coordinate weekend activities with friends. Create plans, control visibility, and let friends RSVP. Organize contacts into circles for private sharing and view all your upcoming events in a feed or calendar.

Highlights
  • Create and share weekend plans
  • Control plan visibility
  • RSVP to plans
  • Organize friends into circles
  • View plans in feed or calendar
  • Friend requests and notifications
Features
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Weekend Plans makes it easy to coordinate your weekend with friends. Create a plan, choose who can see it, and let friends RSVP. Share privately, with all friends, or with circles like family, school friends, or neighborhood groups. See everything in a clean weekend feed or calendar view. Use Weekend Plans to: • Find friends by phone number • Share Saturday and Sunday plans • RSVP yes, maybe, or no • Organize friends into circles • Get notified about friend requests and new plans • Manage your account and delete your data anytime Weekend Plans helps you spend less time coordinating and more time actually doing things together.

About

giftstring

Create a unique, lasting gift by weaving together voice and video messages from loved ones. Perfect for special occasions, this app allows you to record your own message, invite others to contribute, and send a private, playable link.

Highlights
  • Record audio or video messages
  • Invite contributors via email
  • Create a single, lasting gift
  • Send private playable links
  • Delete messages anytime
  • Cancel gifts before sending
Features
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giftstring is a quiet way to gather what matters: the voice and video of the people who love someone, woven together into a single gift. Mom's eightieth, a friend's wedding, a graduation, a goodbye — moments that ask for more than a card. With giftstring, you record a short message of your own, invite the people who matter, and email it as one beautiful, lasting gift. — Record an audio or video message in seconds. — Invite contributors by email; they each add their own. — When the gift is ready, send it. The recipient gets a private link they can play anywhere. — Your recordings are yours. Delete a message anytime before the gift ships. Cancel a gift entirely if you change your mind. giftstring is built around a simple idea: the most precious thing you can give someone is a few minutes of yourself, and the voices of the people who love them. We don't sell your data, we don't use your recordings to train anyone else's AI, and you can delete everything with one tap. Made for the moments that matter.

Screenshots

WeekendPlans4 screens
giftstring4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: giftstring at 15.1 against WeekendPlans's 18. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WeekendPlans against 5.0 for giftstring. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WeekendPlans ships an update fortnightly, giftstring every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
WeekendPlans versus giftstring: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekendPlansgiftstring
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1815.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFidget Labs, Inc.Akila Kesavasamy

Customer experience

WeekendPlans

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

giftstring

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WeekendPlans

No in-app purchases

None

giftstring

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WeekendPlans free?
WeekendPlans is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is giftstring free?
giftstring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WeekendPlans or giftstring?
WeekendPlans and giftstring are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do WeekendPlans or giftstring have ads?
Neither WeekendPlans nor giftstring shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeekendPlans or giftstring?
WeekendPlans ships an update fortnightly, and giftstring every 8 days. Most recently, WeekendPlans was updated on September 28, 2026 and giftstring on September 23, 2026.

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