Why 2 copies of same App?

Mavericks is dumb.
So I download an App from the develpers website, and I start using it. It has an option to "Review" the app, so I click on it, but it sends me to the App Store where I am supposed to leave this review.
But since I didn't download the App from the App Store, it asks me to download and install. Thinking that perhaps Mavericks would recognize that I already have the App, it would tell me that and not download another copy from the App Store. But it does! So it downloads another copy, seemingly the same version.
But the weird thing - even though the versions say that they are the same, the icon colors are different!!!!! And now I have 2 copies of the same App, running independently of each other!!!!! How weird it that!!!!!
So now I can only leave a review based on the one I downloaded from the App Store, but I also have the app from the developers' website.
So which is one is the legit copy? And if the copy from the developer sends me to the App Store to review it, why is the App from the App store smaller in size in my Application folder compared to the one from the developer, and why are the icon colors different and some other parts during the App look different in style and colors when running??????
This stuff confounds me.
Please tell me why this stuff happens.
Thank you.

Nevermind!
I found the answer.
Some basic portions of the App had to be removed for approval to be put on the App Store. That is the explanation for some Apps having 2 verisons.
That is the stupidest thing I've heard, since Apple wants to be better at doing things than others, but way to confuse the consumer.
Thanks anyways!

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