Comparison

Gametize vs Luma

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

Head to head
About

Gametize

This platform enables users to create and participate in games designed for engagement and education. It offers a user-friendly interface for building interactive challenges and allows players to earn points and virtual rewards by completing real-world tasks. Users can also connect with others, view submissions, and interact through an in-app chat.

Highlights
  • Create and play games for engagement
  • Earn points and virtual rewards
  • Compete with other users
  • Participate in diverse challenges
  • Interact via in-app chat
  • Join games with unique codes
Features
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The World’s Simplest Gamification platform. Gametize allows you to create and play games to engage and educate your audience. With a user-friendly interface and powerful gamification features, Gametize is the perfect tool for educators, trainers, and marketers who want to make learning or engagement fun and effective. Here are some of the key features that make Gametize the ultimate app for fun and challenge: - Play real-world challenges to earn points and virtual rewards - Compete and interact with like-minded individuals or teams who share your interests - Easily access games you're currently playing or browse available games - Join a game by entering a unique code - Participate in a variety of challenges, such as writing comments, uploading photos, engage in minigames or solving quizzes and puzzles - Check out other players' challenge submissions and interact with them through the in-app chat feature

About

Luma

Discover and host local events, from tech meetups to social gatherings. Easily create event pages, sell tickets, invite guests via SMS or email, and manage check-ins. Connect with other attendees and build your social circle.

Highlights
  • Event discovery
  • Event hosting
  • Ticket selling
  • SMS and email invites
  • Guest check-in
  • In-app chat with attendees
  • Beautiful event pages
Features
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DISCOVER EVENTS NEAR YOU Find popular upcoming tech, crypto, wellness, and social events around you. After registering for an event, you can easily share it with your friends or on your socials. At the event, pull up your event ticket or Apple Wallet pass for seamless entry. CHAT WITH (NEW) FRIENDS Don’t be that "Ugh, want to add me on IG / LinkedIn?" person. If you attend an event with someone, you can easily look them up and chat with them right from within Luma. HOST AN EVENT Host delightful events with ease. Create a beautiful event page, send email and SMS invites, collect registrations, and chat with your guests. With Luma taking care of reminders, ticketing, checking in and more, you can focus your full attention on the event itself. BEAUTIFUL EVENT PAGES You can create a beautiful event page in just a few seconds. Just choose a cover image, name, location and time for your event. We’ll take care of the rest. For cover images, you can choose from our fun gallery of party posters, bbq invites, happy hour photos and many more. SELL TICKETS You can create a new event, start selling tickets, and market your event all within Luma. It takes just a few minutes to connect your bank account and then you’ll receive next day payment as guests buy tickets. SMS AND EMAIL INVITES Now you’ve created your event — who is going to come? You can sync your contacts and easily send a mass SMS invite message. In addition, Luma makes it incredibly easy to invite past guests again and to send email invites. CHECK IN GUESTS If you want to track attendance, you can check in guests with our built in QR code scanner and check in system. Guests will be able to show their QR code to scan in — or you can look them up by their name or email. You can add cohosts to your event who can also check in guests and manage the event together. SUBSCRIBE TO LOCAL CALENDARS From running clubs to AI calendars, discover fun events and clubs around you. Keep up with their events and make new friends.

Screenshots

Gametize4 screens
Luma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Luma at 4.9 against Gametize's 3.0. Luma also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (81% vs 50%). Gametize's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Luma holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Luma has 20K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Gametize's written reviews are positive against 81% of Luma's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gametize ships an update fortnightly, Luma every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Gametize versus Luma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGametizeLuma
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (20K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews80.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings220K — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
Best chart rank—#79 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGametize Pte. Ltd.Luma Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Gametize

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Luma

All ratings19,665 ratings
Positive98.9%
Neutral0.6%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews413 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral3.9%
Negative15.5%

Bugs and requests

Gametize

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Luma

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatibility with older devices
  • Inability to remove or leave group chats

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save/bookmark events
  • Improved search and discovery options
  • Better guest management tools
  • Seamless calendar integration
  • Customizable event notifications

In-app purchases

None

Gametize

No in-app purchases

None

Luma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gametize free?
Gametize is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Luma free?
Luma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gametize or Luma?
Luma is rated higher. Gametize averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Luma averages 4.9 from 20K ratings.
Do Gametize or Luma have ads?
Gametize shows ads; Luma does not.
Which is updated more often, Gametize or Luma?
Gametize ships an update fortnightly, and Luma every 5 days. Most recently, Gametize was updated on November 1, 2026 and Luma on November 7, 2026.

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