Nelos vs Boop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nelos
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Stay connected beyond cell coverage. Nelos is an offline messaging, location sharing, and tracking app for families and small teams using MeshCore-compatible LoRa radios. Message your team, see everyone on a map, find trackers, and coordinate even when cell service or internet isn’t available. STAY TOGETHER OFF-GRID • See teammates and compatible trackers on one map • Send team messages and direct messages over LoRa • Track family members, pets, and personal belongings with compatible trackers • Find a tracker faster with Find Mode • Create Safe Zones and get alerts when a tracker leaves them • Send help requests and coordinate responses with your teams • Create and join teams offline using QR codes READY FOR THE OUTDOORS • Download detailed offline maps worldwide • Mark campsites, meeting points, hazards, and other locations with waypoints • Review the last 24 hours of location history MORE WITH NELOS PRO Unlock multiple active teams, unlimited offline maps, and up to 90 days of location history with a one-time lifetime purchase. PRIVACY-FOCUSED No account required. No central message server. Built for families, hiking, camping, outdoor adventures, travel, volunteer teams, festivals, and other off-grid situations. COMPATIBLE HARDWARE REQUIRED Off-grid communication requires MeshCore-compatible LoRa hardware. Download maps before heading out. Location updates and message delivery depend on your devices, radio conditions, terrain, positioning availability, and permissions. Help requests are sent to your Nelos teams, not emergency services. Nelos should not be your only means of communication or safety in critical situations.
Boop
Access a vast library of Japanese text faces and emoticons directly from your keyboard. Easily find and insert kaomoji sorted by mood or searchable by keyword, with no need for copy-pasting.
- Extensive kaomoji library
- Keyboard integration
- Mood-based sorting
- Keyword search
- Customizable saved faces
- Offline functionality
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Boop is a kaomoji keyboard for iPhone: 24,563 cute Japanese text faces and emoticons, sorted by mood, searchable in a tap, and ready in every app you type in. EVERY FACE, ONE TAP AWAY Boop lives in your keyboard, so the faces come with you. Chats, DMs, notes, email, comments, anywhere there is a text field. Tap a face and it lands in your text. No copy and paste. SORTED BY MOOD 37 moods. Happy, love, sad, cats, dogs, bears, sleepy, dramatic, table flipping, shrugs, sparkles and more. Browse the mood you are in instead of scrolling one endless list. SEARCH THAT FINDS FACES Type happy, bear, angry, shrug or cat and get the faces that match, instantly, on a keyboard that feels like the real one. The whole library is indexed and searched on your phone. SAVE THE ONES YOU USE Press and hold a face to save it. Saved faces ride at the front of the keyboard, and they show up in the app too. BUILT TO FEEL FAST The library ships inside the app as a local database, so opening the keyboard, switching moods and searching never wait on anything. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. No analytics. No network code at all. ABOUT FULL ACCESS iOS asks for Full Access before any third-party keyboard can do more than type. Boop uses it for two things: keeping your saved faces in sync with the app, and haptic feedback when you tap a key. Boop has no network code, so nothing you type can leave your phone, ever. The keyboard works without Full Access too, you just lose sync and haptics. Kaomoji, emoticons, Japanese emoji, text faces, lenny faces, ASCII faces, whatever you call them. They are all in here.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nelos at 15.1 against Boop's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nelos ships an update every 4 days, Boop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nelos | Boop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | The Quyen Le | Madhav Oberoi |
In-app purchases
Nelos
No in-app purchases
Boop
No in-app purchases









