Crossroads Trading vs MapChat Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crossroads Trading
Discover fashionable, eco-conscious resale clothing. Sell gently used items for cash or trade, and shop name-brand and designer pieces at great prices. Find stores, check hours, and reserve your spot in line.
- Find nearby stores
- Check store hours and services
- View seller queue
- Reserve a spot in line
- Receive turn notifications
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With more than 100 “Best of” awards, Crossroads has been leading the resale fashion industry for over 25 years. Our fashionable and eco-conscious customers sell gently used clothing for cash or trade; shop for name-brand and designer clothing at amazing prices and help keep clothing out of landfill. The Crossroads app lets you: - Find a store near you. - Check store hours, services, and number of sellers in line. - Reserve a spot in line. - Receive a notification when it is your turn.
MapChat Social
Discover local nightlife and connect with people in real life. Find venues, see who's there, and join coordinated meetups to make new friends and experience your city.
- Map of bars, venues, and events
- Filter by venue features (happy hour, music, patio)
- See who is currently at venues
- In-app chat for making plans
- Organized meetups and bar crawls
- Connect with new people in your city
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Your city is full of people you'd love. You just haven't met them yet. MapChat shows you where they are tonight. Open the map, see which spots near you are busy right now, check in, and wave at someone. If they wave back, a chat opens. Then you go say hi in person. No endless feed. No swiping. Just a reason to go out and people to go out with. HOW IT WORKS See who's out tonight. A live map of the places near you, with live headcounts so you know who's there before you commit. Check in when you want to be seen. You show up at a venue only when you choose to check in, and you can hide anytime. Wave to break the ice. A wave is a low-pressure hello. Chats open only when it's mutual, so nobody gets cold-messaged. Play games with the room. 14 games you play with the people around you, including Who Wants to Be a Butterfly, Imprompto, Emoji Off, Pair Play, trivia, poker and spades. A new live game every day. Make plans. Bar crawls, trivia nights, themed nights, spontaneous meetups. Join one or start your own and pack the bar. FIND YOUR SPOT A curated catalog of bars, lounges, restaurants, cafes and third places, filterable by happy hour, live music, karaoke, trivia, dog-friendly patios, dance floors and more. No fake reviews, no star ratings, no pay-to-play rankings. Just what each place is actually like, checked by real people. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO MOVED HERE New to LA, DC, Boston or New York? Finished college and discovered that making friends as an adult is weirdly hard? MapChat is for people who want their city to feel like theirs. PRIVACY FIRST Your exact location is never shown to strangers. You appear only at venues you check in to, only while you want to. Block or hide anyone at any time. We use your location to help you find things, not to track you or sell your data. NOW LIVE IN Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston and New York City, with more cities on the way. Request yours in the app. WHY WE BUILT THIS Loneliness is the defining problem of our generation, and the apps built to connect us mostly made it worse. Every other app wants more of your attention. We want less of it. MapChat wins when you close the app because you're busy being with people. Free. Come out and play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MapChat Social at 100% against Crossroads Trading's 18%. MapChat Social also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Crossroads Trading's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 5). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MapChat Social holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossroads Trading has 30 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Crossroads Trading's written reviews are positive against 100% of MapChat Social's.
Crossroads Trading ships an update every 6 weeks, MapChat Social fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossroads Trading | MapChat Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Crossroads Trading Co. | Benjamin Boehlke |
Customer experience
Crossroads Trading
MapChat Social
Bugs and requests
Crossroads Trading
Reported bugs
10 issues- App did not populate with all locations nearby upon first launch
- Waitlist function sometimes fails to add user
- App kicks users off waitlist randomly
- App adds names multiple times or not at all to waitlist
- App removes users from waitlist without notification
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- App sometimes shows store as closed when it's not
- App doesn't work without WiFi
- Sign in tab disappears intermittently
- App doesn't allow adding to waitlist
- App doesn't work on latest iteration of iPad
Requested features
12 requests- Map view option
- Invest in a quality app
- Enable location sharing
- Improve app design
- Add check-in option
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- Fix waitlist functionality
- Ensure app works for all locations
- Add support for all US states
- Make sign-in tab consistently available
- Enable waitlist sign-up
- Improve app reliability
- Add dark mode option
MapChat Social
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crossroads Trading
No in-app purchases
MapChat Social
No in-app purchases
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