Joontos vs MyPlace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Joontos
Connect with neighbors for shared car trips, choosing your ride companions and splitting gas costs directly. This app facilitates peer-to-peer carpooling without taking a commission, prioritizing user choice and privacy.
- Browse neighbors for commutes
- Choose your ride companions
- Split gas and wear costs directly
- Real-time location sharing during rides
- User-initiated ride agreements
- Bilingual support (English/Spanish)
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Joontos is carpooling with the neighbors you already share a commute with. You browse real people going your way, pick who you want to ride with, meet at a corner, and split what the gas costs. That's it. You choose. Not an algorithm. Joontos doesn't assign you a stranger and tell you to get in. You see who is going your way and you decide. So does the other person. A ride only happens when both of you say yes. No money moves through the app. Joontos works out a fair split of gas and wear for the trip, and then gets out of the way. Whatever you and your neighbor already use to send each other money, use that. Joontos doesn't take a cut, because Joontos never touches it. Nobody is working here. The person driving is not a driver. They were already making the trip. This isn't a job, there is no fare, and no one is a customer. The car's location, only while it's coming. While a ride is live, the driver's location is shared with their rider, so nobody is standing on the wrong corner wondering. The rider's location is never shared with anyone. When the ride ends, the driver's location is deleted. In English and Spanish, properly. Not a menu translated at the last minute. The whole app, both languages, written for people who speak them. Built for Los Angeles, for the drive everyone here already makes.
MyPlace
Connect with people you know and their trusted networks for safer home-sharing experiences. Build private, connected communities based on real-life relationships.
- Build individual networks
- Uses phone contacts for connections
- Safe and private home-sharing
- Connects friends and friends-of-friends
- Curated group creation
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You already share homes in groups on chat, on social, and real life. MyPlace makes that natural behavior smarter - designed uniquely for home-sharing with the widest, safest distribution possible. Our app builds individual networks by using your phone contacts to identify who you know - your contacts, your friends, and their friends. Why use MyPlace? Because staying with someone you have a real link to feels better, safer, and more natural than rolling the dice on strangers. MyPlace is for friends, friends-of-friends, and curated groups. Always private. Always connected. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Joontos at none against MyPlace's 1. Joontos also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). MyPlace's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2) and chart position (#144 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads 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. MyPlace sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $95.99 per year. Joontos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Joontos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyPlace has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Joontos's written reviews are positive against 85% of MyPlace's.
Joontos ships an update every 5 days, MyPlace every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Joontos | MyPlace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #144 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ron Hogen | MyPlace Inc |
Customer experience
Joontos
MyPlace
In-app purchases
Joontos
No in-app purchases
MyPlace
- MyPlace Subscription$95.991 Year









