Comparison

Taverns vs ALON CampUs

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

Head to head
About

Taverns

Create custom online communities for gaming groups, fandoms, or friends. Organize conversations, calls, and events with customizable spaces and tools for moderation and privacy.

Highlights
  • Customizable community spaces (Halls)
  • Synchronized watch parties
  • Voice and video calls with screen sharing
  • File uploads up to 2 GB
  • Extensive emoji and sticker support
  • Role and permission management
  • End-to-end encrypted calls
Features
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Taverns is a community and group chat app for gaming groups, guilds, clans, fandoms, roleplayers, creators, and friends. Create a Tavern, organize it into Halls, and give every conversation, call, event, and watch party a place of its own. Core community features are available without a subscription, including Stage watch parties and file uploads up to 2 GB. WATCH TOGETHER IN A STAGE • Start a synchronized watch party from a YouTube, TikTok, X, Vimeo, Twitch clip, or video-file link • Chat and react over the video, build an Up Next queue, and vote to skip CHAT, CALL, AND SHARE • Use text Halls, direct messages, group chats, threads, forums, announcements, and polls • Join voice and video calls and share your screen • Send files up to 2 GB each • Use up to 700 custom emoji and 1,000 stickers per Tavern, plus GIFs and reactions BUILD A PLACE THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS • Customize Tavern themes, backgrounds, colors, fonts, Hall icons, and profiles • Arrange Halls into categories and create public, private, or staff-only spaces • Discover public Taverns or build your own TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY OWNERS • Set roles and detailed permissions • Publish rules, plan events, manage invites, and moderate members • Keep fast chat and longer forum discussions organized SAFETY AND PRIVACY Report content or accounts, block people, choose who can contact you, manage friend requests, and control how sensitive content appears. Voice, video, and screen sharing are end-to-end encrypted when everyone is using a current Taverns app. A voice Hall is not encrypted while it is being restreamed to a third-party service. Taverns works with the same account on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, and the web. Support: https://tav.gg/support Privacy Policy: https://tav.gg/privacy Terms of Service: https://tav.gg/terms Community Guidelines: https://tav.gg/policies/community-guidelines

About

ALON CampUs

Features
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ALON Campus is a student community app for university life in the Philippines. Students can join their school community to share posts, chat, find housing, trade items, review professors, check food options, manage timetables, and use academic tools. Features include: - School-based communities - Campus boards and group chats - Housing and trade listings - Professor reviews and syllabus sharing - Food booth information - Timetable and grade calculator tools - English/Filipino/Korean support ALON helps students connect, find campus information, and manage school life in one app. Some features require account approval or school-based access.

Screenshots

Taverns4 screens
ALON CampUs4 screens

Verdict

The call

Taverns and ALON CampUs are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taverns ships an update every 3 days, ALON CampUs every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Taverns versus ALON CampUs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTavernsALON CampUs
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB122 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMEKASMITHJINCHEOL IN

In-app purchases

None

Taverns

No in-app purchases

None

ALON CampUs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taverns free?
Taverns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ALON CampUs free?
ALON CampUs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Taverns or ALON CampUs have ads?
Neither Taverns nor ALON CampUs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taverns or ALON CampUs?
Taverns ships an update every 3 days, and ALON CampUs every 2 days. Most recently, Taverns was updated on November 5, 2026 and ALON CampUs on November 5, 2026.

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