Community Lab vs Bailiwik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Community Lab
Explore and experiment with a platform designed to transform communities. Discover new ways to engage and build connections within your group.
- Community exploration
- Platform experimentation
- Community transformation tools
- Engagement features
- Discovery tools
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Hivebrite Community Lab is your dedicated space to explore, experiment, and discover how our platform can transform your community.
Bailiwik
Connect with people who share your physical spaces, like neighborhoods or workplaces. Create or join communities to foster a sense of belonging and facilitate real-world interactions. Discover local events and deals, and get to know your neighbors.
- Create and curate place-based communities
- Connect online and offline
- Member directory
- Discover and promote local events
- Access local merchant deals
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Bailiwiks are communities that share a place: a neighborhood, a co-working office, a dog park -- anywhere people come together on a regular basis. Create a community that makes the people who share a place feel welcome and connected -- or join one created by someone else. Get to know the people you see every day, and turn your shared place into a real community that connects online and off! Put yourself at the center of the community. Create and curate a community for a place you care about. • Turn a place into a real community that connects online and off. • Make people feel welcome. Bailiwiks are hosted and curated by real people. That could be you! • Chat with the people around you. Get to know the people you see every day. • Put names to those familiar faces with our member directory. • Find nearby events -- or promote your own, for free. • Get deals from local merchants -- or offer your own, for free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Community Lab at none against Bailiwik's shown. Community Lab also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Bailiwik's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Community Lab against 5.0 for Bailiwik. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bailiwik has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Community Lab ships an update monthly, Bailiwik every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Community Lab | Bailiwik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | KIT UNITED | Bailiwik Inc. |
Customer experience
Community Lab
Bailiwik
In-app purchases
Community Lab
No in-app purchases
Bailiwik
No in-app purchases
