Comparison

True vs Brocast

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

Head to head
About

True

This app offers a private social networking experience focused on genuine connections with trusted individuals. It prioritizes user privacy by avoiding targeted advertising and data selling, creating a safe and positive space for sharing.

Highlights
  • Private by default sharing
  • No ads or tracking
  • User data ownership
  • Focus on real friends
  • Safe and positive environment
Features
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Focused on people you really know, we’re making social a safe, happy place again without targeted advertising. • It’s the quality of relationships, not quantity, that make us happier. We’re building new ways to tell your story and strengthen your community • We don’t spy on you, read your cookies or follow you around the internet. You own your data, forever, and we’ll never sell or share it with anyone It’s time to try an honest solution. We’re thrilled to get you back to things that matter. • Private by default – photos, and updates only with people you trust. • No ads. No tracking. Ever. – we never sell your data. • Real friends, real life – original content from people you actually know, not influencers or brands. • Safe and positive – a drama-free space designed to make social a happy place again. The True Story True was founded in a lovely little mountain town filled with giant redwoods, beautiful valleys and neighbors who look after each other. It’s this real-life Happy Valley that inspired us to build a company that gets back to things that matter. Real friends and real life without commercial interruption. It’s the quality of our relationships, not the quantity, that make us happier. It’s the joy of making new friends and connecting with old ones that strengthen our sense of community. Somehow, in a rush for growth and profit, these feelings have been lost. Social today no longer feels like a Happy Valley, it’s more like we’re all living in a big creepy commercial. Big social companies are in the middle of our relationships. They’re taking our best intentions and selling them to the highest bidder. Well, we’re just not going to do that anymore. Why Should I Trust You Guys? There’s a lot of talk about privacy. Every few weeks, another big company gets caught in a new scandal. But there is never anything really done about it and we go on accepting the problem. The crazy thing is, this is never going to stop. As long as these companies make money by selling our personal information, they will always find ways to collect it. But we never signed up for this. We didn’t post our lives, families and personal relationships for sale. We did not agree to let these companies make money from being in the middle of our friendships. We believe you should be free to share your life without big brands competing for your attention. You should own your information and decide what you want to do with it. 3rd parties should never have access to your data. You should not be the product. We believe your privacy matters. We take it into consideration with every decision we make. You should believe we respect your privacy and trust we’ll do the right thing with your information. What’s Different About It? We just don’t think you can be yourself in a world of perfect pictures awash in a sea of influencers. Old-school social is for blasting your life to people you don’t really know, measured by standards you will never achieve. So we’ve built a new kind of threaded sharing that is private by default. Until now, no one has tried this before. It gives you control over things you want to share and who you want to share them with. By combining beautiful, edge-to-edge storytelling with private messaging, it’s the best of both worlds. What do we all love? Updates from real friends. But original thoughts and stories have gone missing in big social. Sadly, most content today is created by companies with an agenda. We share an endless stream of news and ideas pushed by these companies and no longer share our real lives. So we built a platform that only allows original content. There are no political arguments here. You come to True to see real updates from friends. Content they created themselves, not clickbait designed to hold your attention and manipulate opinion. True lets you… be you. Real sharing from real friends, we’re making social a safe, happy place again.

About

Brocast

This social networking app allows users to connect with friends through intimate and emotionally expressive messaging. Users can create accounts with unique 'bromotions' and customize chats with colors and descriptions. Group chats are also supported for communicating with multiple friends simultaneously.

Highlights
  • Emotionally expressive messaging
  • Customizable 'bromotions'
  • Personalized chat themes
  • Group chat functionality
  • No email or phone number required
  • Internet-based communication
Features
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Brocast! Brocast is a free chat app for Iphones and other smartphones. Other chat apps are useful for communicating with other people, but they never really seem to convey the true emotions that are you are feeling with the message. Brocast is a more intimate chat app where you can build a true connection with your bros, by sending them messages which truly convey what you are feeling! Create a Brocast account with a corresponding bromotion which best describes who you are and what you're feeling. No email or phone number needed! Brocast uses an internet connection to send and receive messages. Add your other bros and start communicating on a whole new level with Brocast! After you added your bro you can customize the chat with a color or a special description. Within this chat you and your bro are free to share your deepest emotions by sending emotional messages. If it gets to difficult to converse using only emojis you can possibly append your emotion with some plain text. You can even create a Bro Group (Broup) where you can communicate with multiple Bro's at the same time! Try this out with all your bros! (Note: "Bro" is gender neutral so both your male, female and other friends can become your bro in this app)

Screenshots

True4 screens
Brocast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Brocast at 5.0 against True's 4.2. Brocast also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). True's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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

Brocast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: True has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of True's written reviews are positive against 100% of Brocast's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

True ships an update every 3 weeks, Brocast every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
True versus Brocast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrueBrocast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB57 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHello Mobile Inc.Zwaar Dev

Customer experience

True

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative10.3%

Brocast

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

True

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Posts revert to older dates
  • Cannot read email for verification
  • Cannot view or open notifications (likes, comments, friend requests)
  • Cannot get verification code by email
  • App crashes or freezes
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  • Cannot access other albums
  • Camera roll is a mess
  • Cannot use own GIFs
  • Confirming account is a nightmare
  • Cannot confirm phone number
  • Cannot set password
  • Phone seizes up when writing reviews
  • Location history not fully captured
  • No response from support
  • Cannot upload own GIFs (no animation)
  • Spam notifications from 'Alex'
  • App keeps showing error messages

Requested features

7 requests
  • Allow editing of posted text
  • Allow pictures and videos as comments
  • Provide a way to download photos
  • Dark mode
  • Evernote integration or export options
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  • Add missed location logs
  • Improve contact access

Brocast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

True

No in-app purchases

None

Brocast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is True free?
True is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brocast free?
Brocast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, True or Brocast?
Brocast is rated higher. True averages 4.2 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Brocast averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do True or Brocast have ads?
Neither True nor Brocast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, True or Brocast?
True ships an update every 3 weeks, and Brocast every 2 months. Most recently, True was updated on October 23, 2026 and Brocast on October 14, 2026.

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