Comparison

Loopalong vs mintboxd

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

Head to head
About

Loopalong

Log and rate restaurants, films, books, music, and more. Organize your favorites into collections and share them with friends. Discover new experiences based on the trusted taste of people you know.

Highlights
  • Log and rate diverse items
  • Create custom collections
  • Follow friends' taste
  • Share entries and profiles
  • Privacy controls
  • Cross-device support
Features
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Loopalong is your personal journal of taste. A beautifully designed home for everything you love: the restaurant that blew you away, the film you can't stop thinking about, the hotel you'd go back to in a heartbeat. Track it. Rate it. Remember it. WHAT YOU CAN LOG Restaurants, spots, hotels, films, shows, books, music, podcasts and concerts. Mark each one Love It, Like It, or Not For Me. Add a note, your own photos, the date and who you went with. Save things to your wishlist before you try them. Every entry lives in your journal, organized by category and always there when you need it. COLLECTIONS Group your favorites however you like: a weekend in Lisbon, rainy day films, date night spots. Keep a collection to yourself or share it with a link. YOUR FRIENDS' TASTE Follow friends and see what they love as they log it. A photo-forward feed shows you what the people you trust actually love. Not an algorithm, just honest taste from people you know. Explore your friends' favorites by category, read their notes, and find the places they love near you. Find out where they'd go back, what they'd skip, and what they're dying to try. YOUR PROFILE Pin your top picks, earn badges as your journal grows, and share your profile or any entry with a link. MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN Loopalong is designed for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, with layouts that make the most of the bigger screen, folded or open. PRIVACY ON YOUR TERMS Make your account private, or keep any entry just for you. You decide what you share and with whom. Log what you love. Build your collection. Share with friends.

About

mintboxd

Features
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mintboxd is the collection tracker for everything on your shelf: vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, Blu-rays, DVDs, VHS tapes, video games, books, comics, figures and trading cards. Catalogue your physical media, see it on a 3D shelf and share it with other collectors. SCAN A BARCODE, ADD IT IN ONE TAP Point the camera at a barcode or search the catalogue, and the item is in your collection. mintboxd tracks the exact edition you own, not just the title: format, release year, country, platform and condition. Different pressings of the same album, or the PAL and NTSC versions of the same game, are kept apart. That is the detail record collectors, film collectors and game collectors care about. YOUR SHELF IN 3D Photograph the front, back and spine and mintboxd turns your item into a 3D box you can rotate. Pick the case size from the mould list (LP, CD jewel case, Blu-ray, DVD, VHS, game case and more) or measure it with the camera. Build custom shelves, arrange every level, choose the colour and pull any item off the shelf to look at it. KNOW WHAT YOUR COLLECTION IS WORTH See an estimated market value for your records, games and films, based on recent eBay sales. Sort by most valuable, filter by category and follow how your collection grows. ORGANISE IT YOUR WAY - Showcase, custom shelves, wishlist and sets - Filters for music, film, games, books and figures - Trading card binders for TCG collectors - Personal notes and the story behind each item: purchased, gifted or traded, price and date SHARE AND DISCOVER Post what you add, browse other collectors' shelves and follow them. Like, comment and review. See who else owns the same edition and read their ratings. Share your shelf as an image to Instagram Stories, WhatsApp or X. YOUR DATA IS YOURS No ads, no tracking pixels, no data selling. Delete your account whenever you want, and it is really deleted. Release metadata and cover art come from open sources including TMDB, Discogs, MusicBrainz / Cover Art Archive, Open Library and IGDB / MobyGames.

Screenshots

Loopalong4 screens
mintboxd4 screens

Verdict

The call

Loopalong and mintboxd 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

Loopalong ships an update every 4 days, mintboxd every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Loopalong versus mintboxd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopalongmintboxd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB32 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperLuca Sun SilberbergMurat Bayraktar

In-app purchases

None

Loopalong

No in-app purchases

None

mintboxd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loopalong free?
Loopalong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is mintboxd free?
mintboxd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loopalong or mintboxd have ads?
Neither Loopalong nor mintboxd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loopalong or mintboxd?
Loopalong ships an update every 4 days, and mintboxd every 2 days. Most recently, Loopalong was updated on November 5, 2026 and mintboxd on November 13, 2026.

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