Comparison

Offing vs Jolts

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

Head to head
About

Offing

Features
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no bars. no problem. Offing is a social feed that runs entirely phone to phone over Bluetooth. No wifi, no cell service, no servers, no accounts — just everyone within a few hundred metres of you. Your phone carries the crowd's posts a few hops further, and yours ride theirs. Built for the places your signal dies: festival fields, campsites, basement venues, stadium crowds, the middle of nowhere. THE FEED — Drop a post and it spreads phone to phone through everyone around you. Posts live about six hours, then they're gone from every phone that carried them. No archive, because there's no server to keep one. RADAR — See who's in range, closer to the middle = closer to you. Rings are signal strength, honestly labelled: we can't point at people, only tell how near they are. WAVES — See someone interesting? Wave. One tap, no opener required. If they wave back, a chat opens for both of you. If they don't, nothing happens and nobody's embarrassed. CHAT — Waves and messages are end-to-end encrypted. The phones relaying them carry them blind. GROUPS — Private channels for your crew. Join by scanning a QR in person; posts are sealed so relays outside the group can carry them without reading them. STORIES & PHOTOS — Photos are shrunk to a few kilobytes on your phone so they can ride the mesh. What you attach is exactly what travels. PINS & ROUTE — Found something? Pin the spot to your post and everyone who sees it gets an arrow and a distance. Found the secret taco stand? Now everyone can walk to it. POLLS — Settle where the night ends democratically. HONEST BY DESIGN • Anyone in range can see your handle and vibe tags — that's the point, it's how people find you • Your location is never broadcast and never uploaded; it only travels when you deliberately pin it to a post • Your identity key is generated on your phone and never leaves its secure storage • Blocking someone hides them everywhere on your phone and stops your phone relaying their posts • No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection — there's no server to collect it GOOD TO KNOW • Offing is only as alive as the phones around you. Get two friends on it and you've already got a mesh. • Needs Bluetooth on. Works fine with wifi and cellular off, in airplane-mode-with-Bluetooth, or where there was never signal to begin with. • Battery saver mode included for long days in the field. Make it up. There's no email, no phone number, and nothing to sign in to. Who are you tonight?

About

Jolts

Experience a social feed where every video is precisely one second long. Create and share your own one-second clips or discover an endless stream of content from creators worldwide. It's designed for instant gratification with no filler.

Highlights
  • One-second video recording
  • Trim any video to one second
  • Endless feed of looping clips
  • Discover trending content
  • Profile runtime measured in seconds
  • Privacy controls including blocking and muting
Features
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Every video on Jolts is exactly one second long. Not two. Not five. One. That's the whole idea — and it changes everything. No filler, no intros, no "wait for it." Just the best second, over and over, from people all around the world. MAKE A JOLT Tap record and the camera stops itself at exactly 1.000 seconds. Or pull any video from your library and slide to choose your second — the app trims it perfectly every time. Add a caption, some #hashtags, and post. WATCH JOLTS Your feed is an endless run of one-second loops. Swipe up for the next one. Every clip loops instantly, so a great second hits you again and again. Follow creators you love and their seconds land in your Following lane; the For You lane brings you the best of everything else. FIND YOUR PEOPLE Discover trending Jolts, search #hashtags and @creators, and scroll straight through anyone's profile — every video they've posted, one second at a time. A profile with 30 posts? That's a 30-second visit. Nobody wastes your time on Jolts. MADE FOR SPEED - A camera that can't ramble: it stops itself at 1.000s - Pick your perfect second from any longer video - Likes, comments, shares, and mentions - Pin your best Jolts to the top of your profile - Private accounts, blocking, muting, and reporting built in from day one - Your total profile runtime, measured in seconds, because that's all it takes Jolts is brand new. The people who join now are the ones everyone else will be following later. One second. Make it count.

Screenshots

Offing4 screens
Jolts4 screens

Verdict

The call

Offing and Jolts are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Offing versus Jolts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffingJolts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB32 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNIKHIL KISHOREMichael Page

In-app purchases

None

Offing

No in-app purchases

None

Jolts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Offing free?
Offing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jolts free?
Jolts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Offing or Jolts have ads?
Neither Offing nor Jolts shows ads.

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