Comparison

Hylo vs Communities Cooperative

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

Head to head
About

Hylo

Organize and grow your community with a unified platform for management, messaging, and collaboration. Reach members globally with tools for communication, file sharing, and targeted discussions. Designed for groups of all sizes, it facilitates effective teamwork and goal achievement.

Highlights
  • Community management
  • Direct and group messaging
  • File sharing
  • Searchable Topics
  • Membership directories
  • Offers and Requests
  • Network affiliation
Features
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Hylo is the easiest way to organize & grow your community. Hylo brings together community management, messaging and collaboration all in one place. No matter what size your group is, Hylo gives you the tools to you need to be be more organized, creative, and effective. Use Hylo’s web and mobile apps to reach people wherever they are to create together and make your goals a reality. Hylo is used all over the world in more than 80 countries by community groups, companies, coworking spaces, non-profits, social movements, start-up accelerators, schools, and more. Hylo helps you: • Communicate with your group and manage your membership. • Organize conversations, share files, and collaborate using easy-to-search Topics that preserve knowledge and target the right people. • Stay connected with direct and group messaging. • Stay up to date with customized subscriptions, notifications & email digests. Compared to other team communication tools, Hylo gives you more: • Rich membership directories allow you to see who is in your groups and networks and what their skills are. • Turn conversations into collaboration with "Offers" and "Requests." • View posts from all your communities at once or focus on one community at a time. • Group affiliated communities together into a Network, and share content within and between groups, or with the entire network. • Hylo is designed to work better for large groups than other tools so you can focus on what matters most and and make things happen. About Hylo: Hylo was created to support people coming together to solve the great challenges of our time. Our mission is to empower communities to build a world that works for everyone. We never sell ads or user data, and we will always offer a free version of our software. Learn more and come say hello at www.hylo.com .

About

Communities Cooperative

A nonprofit, cooperative social network focused on connecting people and building communities. It prioritizes user control, privacy, and genuine connections over algorithmic feeds and advertising. Features include long-form posts, groups, and private sharing options.

Highlights
  • Nonprofit cooperative model
  • User-funded and governed
  • No ads or tracking
  • Friend model for connections
  • Long-form posts with comments/reactions
  • Public and private sharing
  • Group creation and organization
Features
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Communities is a social network that will be a nonprofit, cooperative designed to help people connect, build community, and organize. Funded by users. Governed by the people who use and build it. No ads. No tracking. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just friends and community. Communities uses a friend model, rather than a follower model. It's a place to build connections with people you know, rather than build audiences. It currently supports long-form posts with comments and reactions. Posts can have attached photos or links. They can be public and shareable or private to your friends only. Communities also supports groups, both private and open, which can be used to organize your community. Events, local feeds, tagging, videos and more are all on the way.

Screenshots

Hylo4 screens
Communities Cooperative4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Communities Cooperative at 5.0 against Hylo's 4.6. Hylo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Communities Cooperative holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hylo has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hylo ships an update every 2 weeks, Communities Cooperative every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hylo versus Communities Cooperative: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHyloCommunities Cooperative
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB29 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperHylozoic, Inc.Communities Social, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Hylo

No in-app purchases

None

Communities Cooperative

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hylo free?
Hylo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Communities Cooperative free?
Communities Cooperative is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hylo or Communities Cooperative?
Communities Cooperative is rated higher. Hylo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Communities Cooperative averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hylo or Communities Cooperative have ads?
Neither Hylo nor Communities Cooperative shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hylo or Communities Cooperative?
Hylo ships an update every 2 weeks, and Communities Cooperative every 5 weeks. Most recently, Hylo was updated on November 1, 2026 and Communities Cooperative on November 8, 2026.

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