Comparison

Dear World vs Offing

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

Head to head
About

Dear World

Share your deepest thoughts anonymously with others worldwide. Read unfiltered stories, send virtual hugs, and connect with people through shared experiences in a judgment-free space.

Highlights
  • Anonymous diary entries
  • Global story sharing
  • Receive unfiltered stories
  • Send virtual hugs
  • Anonymous replies
  • Customizable avatar
  • Friend connections
Features
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Dear World - An Anonymous Diary What if your deepest thoughts could reach someone who truly needs them — and theirs could reach you? Write raw, honest diary entries and release them anonymously into the world. No names. No faces. No judgment. Just your words, a chosen nickname, and your gender. Every morning and evening, your feed fills with real, unfiltered stories from people across the globe — moments of joy, heartbreak, hope, loneliness, and quiet strength. Read them. Feel them. If one touches your heart, send a gentle Hug or a kind anonymous reply. In a noisy world, Dear World creates a quiet, beautiful space where humanity connects with humanity. Key Features: • Write and share deeply personal diary entries completely anonymously • Your entries are delivered to random people worldwide twice daily • Discover heartfelt, real stories in your twice-daily refreshed feed • Send warm Hugs or thoughtful anonymous replies • Add friends for meaningful connections — or stay fully anonymous • Express yourself with a fully customizable avatar • A safe, kind, and judgment-free space for honest emotional sharing Your story matters. Someone out there is waiting to read it. Someone out there needs to hear exactly what you're feeling right now. Download Dear World - An Anonymous Diary today and start sharing your heart with the world — one anonymous entry at a time.

About

Offing

Features
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no bars. no problem. Offing is a social feed that runs entirely phone to phone over Bluetooth. No wifi, no cell service, no servers, no accounts — just everyone within a few hundred metres of you. Your phone carries the crowd's posts a few hops further, and yours ride theirs. Built for the places your signal dies: festival fields, campsites, basement venues, stadium crowds, the middle of nowhere. THE FEED — Drop a post and it spreads phone to phone through everyone around you. Posts live about six hours, then they're gone from every phone that carried them. No archive, because there's no server to keep one. RADAR — See who's in range, closer to the middle = closer to you. Rings are signal strength, honestly labelled: we can't point at people, only tell how near they are. WAVES — See someone interesting? Wave. One tap, no opener required. If they wave back, a chat opens for both of you. If they don't, nothing happens and nobody's embarrassed. CHAT — Waves and messages are end-to-end encrypted. The phones relaying them carry them blind. GROUPS — Private channels for your crew. Join by scanning a QR in person; posts are sealed so relays outside the group can carry them without reading them. STORIES & PHOTOS — Photos are shrunk to a few kilobytes on your phone so they can ride the mesh. What you attach is exactly what travels. PINS & ROUTE — Found something? Pin the spot to your post and everyone who sees it gets an arrow and a distance. Found the secret taco stand? Now everyone can walk to it. POLLS — Settle where the night ends democratically. HONEST BY DESIGN • Anyone in range can see your handle and vibe tags — that's the point, it's how people find you • Your location is never broadcast and never uploaded; it only travels when you deliberately pin it to a post • Your identity key is generated on your phone and never leaves its secure storage • Blocking someone hides them everywhere on your phone and stops your phone relaying their posts • No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection — there's no server to collect it GOOD TO KNOW • Offing is only as alive as the phones around you. Get two friends on it and you've already got a mesh. • Needs Bluetooth on. Works fine with wifi and cellular off, in airplane-mode-with-Bluetooth, or where there was never signal to begin with. • Battery saver mode included for long days in the field. Make it up. There's no email, no phone number, and nothing to sign in to. Who are you tonight?

Screenshots

Dear World3 screens
Offing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Offing at none against Dear World's 3. Dear World's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Dear World sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Offing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dear World ships an update every 4 days, Offing every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dear World versus Offing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDear WorldOffing
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB29 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJeremy CortezNIKHIL KISHORE

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dear World

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$59.991 Year
None

Offing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dear World free?
Dear World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offing free?
Offing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dear World or Offing have ads?
Neither Dear World nor Offing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dear World or Offing?
Dear World ships an update every 4 days, and Offing every 6 weeks. Most recently, Dear World was updated on October 19, 2026 and Offing on October 25, 2026.

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