Lyvd. vs posting2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lyvd.
A social network focused on curating and sharing personal tastes across various categories like food, travel, and fashion. Users can share their favorite items and follow others whose taste they trust, without algorithmic content manipulation.
- Curate and share personal tastes
- Follow trusted tastemakers
- Discover new picks
- Share content of any length
- No algorithmic content feed
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Lyvd is a taste curation social network built for people who have something to say about the way they live. Curate your world. Share what you love. Follow the people whose taste you trust. Add picks from any category — restaurants, hotels, wine, fashion, beauty, music, books, travel, wellness, and more. Write as much or as little as you want. A single line or a full essay. Your shelf, your rules. Follow people whose taste inspires you and discover picks you never would have found on your own. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just the people you follow and what they love. Lyvd is for everyone. The fashion editor in New York. The mom in Ohio who knows the best restaurants in her city. The music obsessive with impeccable taste. The traveler who always finds the hidden gem. If you have taste, you have a home here. Anyone can say they love something. Lyvd is proof.
posting2
A simple, ad-free social media platform focused on human connection. It prioritizes content from your immediate network and uses an in-app polling system for community-driven changes. Funding is entirely voluntary.
- Ad-free experience
- No algorithms
- Content from your network
- In-app polling system
- Voluntary donations for funding
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Simple, humane social media. No ads, no algorithms, no neuroscience. See posts from your friends and friends of your friends. Vote on ideas and changes with the in-app polling system. Funding for this project comes from user donations and web shop sales. — posting2 is free to use. Supporting posting2 is optional via an auto-renewing monthly subscription or a one-time tip. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://posting2.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://posting2.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lyvd. at none against posting2's 8. posting2's advantage is ratings volume (410 vs 1) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. posting2 sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Lyvd. asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lyvd. against 5.0 for posting2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: posting2 has 410 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Lyvd.'s written reviews are positive against 99% of posting2's.
Lyvd. ships an update every 2 months, posting2 every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lyvd. | posting2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (410 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 98.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 410 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | William Leslie Mathis Freeland | POSTING2 LLC |
Customer experience
Lyvd.
posting2
In-app purchases
Lyvd.
No in-app purchases
posting2
- Monthly Support — $3$2.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $5$4.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $10$9.991 Month
- $3 Tip$2.99
- $5 Tip$4.99
- $10 Tip$9.99
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- $25 Tip$24.99
- $50 Tip$49.99
