iF Daily Design vs Luma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iF Daily Design
Explore award-winning designs from around the globe across numerous categories. Find daily inspiration by searching for specific disciplines, themes, brands, or designers. Stay updated with the latest design news and insights through articles.
- Discover award-winning designs
- Browse 45 countries and 82 categories
- Search by discipline, theme, brand, or designer
- Access iF DESIGN AWARD Gold projects
- Read articles from iF Magazine
- Share designs with friends
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Discover award-winning designs from 45 countries across 82 categories, including 74 projects that have been honored with the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD Gold. Inspiration for every day: search quickly and easily by design discipline, theme, favorite brand or designer. Share the awards with your friends and gain insights into the world of design with the latest articles from iF Magazine.
Luma
Discover local events, connect with attendees, and host your own gatherings. Easily create event pages, send invites, sell tickets, and manage check-ins. Seamlessly integrate with your contacts and calendars.
- Discover local events
- Host and manage events
- Sell event tickets
- Send SMS and email invites
- Check in guests with QR scanner
- Chat with event attendees
- Create beautiful event pages
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Luma at 4.9 against iF Daily Design's 4.0. Luma also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). iF Daily Design's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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.
Luma holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Luma has 18K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of iF Daily Design's written reviews are positive against 81% of Luma's.
iF Daily Design ships an update every 3 months, Luma every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 11, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iF Daily Design | Luma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (18K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 18K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #44 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iF International Forum Design GmbH | Luma Labs, Inc. |
Customer experience
iF Daily Design
Luma
Bugs and requests
iF Daily Design
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
iF Daily Design
No in-app purchases
Luma
No in-app purchases
