Challme vs Rova Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Challme
Turn everyday life into fun challenges with friends through creative photo, video, audio, drawing, and text tasks. Discover and vote on creations, follow friends, and join or create custom challenges. Express yourself with editing tools and unlock rewards by climbing leaderboards.
- Daily creative challenges
- Photo, video, audio, drawing, text entries
- Swipe to vote on creations
- Follow friends and community
- Create custom challenges
- Duo and Event modes
- Photo and drawing editors
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Challme is the app that turns your everyday life into fun challenges with friends! Every day, a new challenge awaits you. Photo, video, audio, drawing, memory, or text: it's your turn to play, your way. Post your creation, discover everyone else's, and vote with a swipe: nailed it or not? WHAT YOU CAN DO • Take on the daily challenges and let your creativity run free • Vote for the best creations with a simple swipe • Follow your friends and discover a creative community • Join themes that match your vibe • Create your own challenges and send them to your friends • Duo Challenges: take a photo together, merged into a single image • Event Mode: liven up a party or gathering like a giant quiz — your guests join in by scanning a QR code, even without an account EXPRESS YOURSELF Photo editor with filters, full drawing editor, add music… Customize your profile with avatar frames and unlock badges. LEVEL UP Earn points, build streaks, climb the leaderboard, and unlock rewards. Meet Chally, your mascot who's with you every step of the way! Join Challme and take on the challenge. Ready?
Rova Social
Experience a social network focused on chronological feeds, free from algorithms and ads. Share photos, videos, and engage in real conversations with robust privacy and content controls.
- Chronological feed
- No algorithmic suggestions
- Ad-free experience
- Profile as a portfolio
- Threaded comments and reactions
- Photo and video sharing
- Direct messaging
- Adjustable privacy and content controls
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Rova is a social network that shows you everything, in the order it happened. No algorithm deciding what you see. No ads in your feed. No "suggested for you" filling the gaps. If you follow someone, you see what they post, newest first, every time. CHRONOLOGICAL BY DEFAULT Your Following feed is exactly that: the people you chose, in order. Discover, Trending and Live are there when you want to find something new, and they stay in their own tabs instead of taking over your timeline. A PROFILE THAT IS YOURS Photos, videos and posts gathered in one place, with a grid view, filters by media type, and view counts on your work. Your profile reads as a portfolio, not a pile of things someone else decided to surface. REAL CONVERSATION Comments and reactions from actual members. Threaded replies, reactions beyond a single like, and polls for when you would rather ask than tell. BUILT FOR PHOTO AND VIDEO Share photos and videos, shoot straight from RovaCam with effects, and keep a long video playing in Picture in Picture while you carry on scrolling. Galleries, GIFs and music links all render inline. MESSAGES Direct messages with photos, GIFs and link previews. CONTROLS THAT ACTUALLY CONTROL SOMETHING Private account. Invisible mode hides your online status and activity. Autoplay, timeline speed and hands-free playback speed are all adjustable. Mute words and people you would rather not see. SAFETY Report posts, profiles, comments and messages. Block or mute anyone. Automated screening plus human moderation, and a zero-tolerance policy for abusive behavior. MEMBERSHIP Browsing Rova is free. Rova Membership is an optional auto-renewing subscription that unlocks posting, comments, likes, reposts, polls and messaging. - Rova Membership: $1.99 per week, including a 7-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase - The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID subscription settings - Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription Terms of Service: https://rovasocial.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://rovasocial.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Challme at none against Rova Social's 8. Rova Social's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and device support 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. Rova Social sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Challme asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Challme against 5.0 for Rova Social. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rova Social has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Challme ships an update weekly, Rova Social every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Challme | Rova Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Romain Trioux | Robert Green |
Customer experience
Challme
Rova Social
In-app purchases
Challme
No in-app purchases
Rova Social
- Rova Membership7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- 400 Gold$4.99
- 820 Gold$9.99
- 1,660 Gold$19.99
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- 4,200 Gold$49.99
- 8,500 Gold$99.99
- 21,500 Gold$249.99
- The Vault: 43,500 Gold$499.99









