Givebear vs MadinaApps. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

MadinaApps offers branded mosque app and website, and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving MadinaApps means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Givebear fits masjids whose first job is collecting donations and whose board wants the full cost before anyone books a call: a lobby kiosk at a published one-time price with no monthly device fee, an online giving page, zakat and sadaqah fund routing, Ramadan campaigns, event registration, and donor records that populate from every channel.

Compared with MadinaApps, Givebear's kiosk for the masjid entrance is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

Score both platforms on published pricing versus request-a-quote, donation kiosk hardware and total device cost, branded mobile app and website needs, Stripe account and donor data ownership, and ramadan campaign and year-round giving workflows. Use last Ramadan as the test case: set up the same funds and receipt wording in a free Givebear account and check whether it produces the report your board asked for from MadinaApps.

A move does not have to be all-or-nothing: a masjid can keep a MadinaApps app and website while the donation side moves. Export donor contact and gift history before any contract change, repoint giving links and lobby QR codes at the new giving page, and confirm the in-app donate button can open an external giving page so app users follow the move.

Givebear imports contacts and past gifts from a CSV, so the MadinaApps export is the first step. Create your funds in Givebear before importing the MadinaApps file, since fund names in it do not create funds on their own. Saved cards move only if MadinaApps and Stripe support a transfer; otherwise recurring donors restart their gift on your new page, so announce the change a few weeks ahead.

Before cutover, list every place a donor can reach MadinaApps: website buttons, email footers, printed QR codes, and event pages. Repoint the ones you control; a printed code that sends donors to MadinaApps keeps working only as long as MadinaApps keeps that page up.

What the site never shows, anywhere, is a price (verified June 2026): no pricing page, no kiosk cost, no monthly fee, no processing rate. A treasurer preparing a budget line for the board cannot pull a single dollar figure from madinaapps.com without booking a demo and waiting on a quote. Its site claims 750+ mosques, and the branded app and website at the center of the product suit masjids that want prayer times, announcements, programs, and giving in one place.

The rest of the mosque market gives a buyer more to work with. MOHID publishes a $999 kiosk plus $25/mo per device (waived with donor-pay) and software at $99/mo Basic or $199/mo Professional on annual billing, per mohid.net/pricing, verified June 2026: about $2,487 in the first year for one kiosk on Basic before processing, less if the device fee is waived. The Masjid App lists a $995 kiosk with a $350/mo subscription, per themasjidapp.net, verified June 2026: $5,195 in year one. Givebear publishes everything up front: the kiosk is $999 to $1,099 one-time with no per-device subscription, and the platform plan is a flat platform fee from 1.9% to 5.9% depending on plan (one rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum.

Before a masjid buys any donation kiosk it should have four numbers in writing: the one-time hardware price, the monthly software fee per device, the per-tap rate on a card or phone, and where the money settles. The published answers across this market vary by thousands of dollars. Masjid Solutions lists its kiosk at $1,095.95, per masjidsolutions.net, verified June 2026. The Masjid App pairs a $995 kiosk with $350/mo, per themasjidapp.net, verified June 2026. MOHID's donor-pay model runs cards at 3.32% + $0.32, per mohid.net/pricing, verified June 2026. None of those four numbers appears anywhere on MadinaApps' site (verified June 2026).

Givebear's answers are public and short. The kiosk is a one-time purchase at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or floor stand), there is no per-device software charge, and the plan is a flat platform fee from 1.9% to 5.9% depending on plan (one rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. The hardware runs Stripe Terminal, so a donor taps a card or phone and the gift settles into the masjid's own Stripe account rather than a vendor's. Each tap also writes to the same donor records as the online giving page, which is what turns Ramadan reporting and year-end receipts into a query instead of a spreadsheet merge.