MTI Connect vs Towns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MTI Connect
Connect with industry professionals, access valuable resources, and engage in discussions to enhance your business's image, value, and productivity. This platform puts essential industry insights and networking opportunities directly into your hands.
- Connect with industry peers
- Download and view resource documents
- Discuss vital industry issues
- Access business-enhancing tools
- Mobile industry insights
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MTI Connect is the Metal Treating Institute’s connection to people, resources and industry discussions focused on maximizing the image, value and productivity of your business. In the palm of your hand, you will be able to connect with people, download/view resources documents and discuss industry issues that are vital to the success of your business.
Towns
This app merges group chat functionality with a self-custody cryptocurrency wallet. Users can discuss financial markets, share investment ideas, and securely manage their digital assets directly within the application.
- Group chat for friends
- Self-custodied wallet
- Secure USDC purchase
- Send and receive assets
- Manage assets on your terms
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Towns combines group chat with a self-custody wallet — so you can gather your community, talk markets, share ideas, and hold your assets directly. - Group chat built for communities - Self-custodied wallet — you control your keys - Send, receive, and manage assets on your terms - Your wallet. Your keys. Your conversations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Towns at 4.8 against MTI Connect's 1.0. Towns also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (94 vs 1). MTI Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.4). 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.
Towns holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Towns has 94 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MTI Connect ships an update every 12 months, Towns every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MTI Connect | Towns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (94 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 69.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 94 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Metal Treating Institute Inc. | Here Not There, Inc. |
Customer experience
MTI Connect
Towns
In-app purchases
MTI Connect
No in-app purchases
Towns
No in-app purchases
