Comparison

Skept vs STACKIT

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

Head to head
About

Skept

Features
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The β€œofficial” Skept app for connecting to the Skept engine. Skept is an old-school social hive engine, inspired by how online communities and social media used to feel. The engine originally started out as DiodeMatrix Workspace in 2018, a platform used to develop software and experiments. In 2021, it was turned into a hobby-project β€œfork”, as they call it, so the system wouldn’t get lost and could continue as a community project.

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STACKIT

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Squads that fill β€” 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. STACKIT 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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

Skept4 screens
STACKIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skept at none against STACKIT's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skept ships an update every 2 days, STACKIT daily. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Skept versus STACKIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkeptSTACKIT
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS16.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size28 MB42 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperDiodeMatrixTHOMAS JUNIOR MODESTE

In-app purchases

None

Skept

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

STACKIT

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

Questions

Is Skept free?
Skept is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is STACKIT free?
STACKIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Skept or STACKIT have ads?
Neither Skept nor STACKIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skept or STACKIT?
Skept ships an update every 2 days, and STACKIT daily. Most recently, Skept was updated on October 10, 2026 and STACKIT on October 11, 2026.

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