Comparison

Spaces vs Deel

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

Head to head
About

Spaces

Find and book flexible workspaces like meeting rooms, private offices, or co-working desks. Choose by the hour or day without contracts. Access thousands of locations globally for your professional needs.

Highlights
  • Book meeting rooms
  • Private offices
  • Co-working desks
  • Business lounges
  • Hourly and daily booking
  • Global locations
Features
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Sick of working in noisy coffee shops? Need to hold a meeting in a professional environment? Spaces is the world's largest provider of short-term workspaces, with over 4000 locations, in over 120 countries. Our centers offer meeting rooms, private offices, co-working desks and business lounges. Just choose the space that you need, book via our app and show up. Book by the hour or by the day. No contracts, no sign-up fees. Create your free Spaces account today and use our app to book a great space to work, wherever you need. Any type of workspace: Meeting rooms, private offices, co-working desks or business lounges. Pick the space that suits your needs. Any duration: Book by the hour, by the day, or upgrade to our unlimited Businessworld monthly subscription. Easy to use: No contracts to sign. Just book via the app and show up at the IWG center. Spaces everywhere: With over 4,000 locations around the world, you will find a space anywhere you need.

About

Deel

Manage your global workforce from anywhere. This platform streamlines hiring, payroll, and HR tasks for international teams. Handle payments, expenses, time off, and contracts directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Global hiring and payroll
  • Expense management
  • Time off requests and tracking
  • Timesheet submission and review
  • Contract management
  • Access to employee perks
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Deel is the only global-first people platform designed to streamline hiring, paying, managing, and developing an international workforce—efficiently and compliantly. Access all of Deel’s features right from your mobile, whether a business or a worker, and handle time-sensitive tasks on the go—right from your phone. Withdrawals • Securely transfer funds to your preferred accounts Expenses • Upload, approve, and manage expense submissions PTO • Request, approve, and track time off requests Time sheets • Submit and review time sheets Perks • Explore and take advantage of perks from household names Contracts • Review and approve contracts on the go

Screenshots

Spaces4 screens
Deel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deel at 51% against Spaces's 7%. Deel also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 118). Spaces's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

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

Deel holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deel has 3.1K ratings behind it against 118, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of Spaces's written reviews are positive against 51% of Deel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spaces ships an update fortnightly, Deel weekly. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spaces versus Deel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpacesDeel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (118 ratings)4.8 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews7.4% of reviews50.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1183.1K — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size244 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPathway IP II GmbHDeel

Customer experience

Spaces

All ratings118 ratings
Positive55.9%
Neutral4.2%
Negative39.8%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive7.4%
Neutral8.8%
Negative83.8%

Deel

All ratings3,080 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive50.6%
Neutral3.1%
Negative46.3%

User reviews

Spaces

From 118 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 App works okay
  • 👍 Good app
  • 👍 Top app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Horribly buggy
  • 🐛 Buggy mess
  • 🐛 Poor UX and design
  • 🐛 Scam
  • 🐛 Annoying

Deel

From 3.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Seamless experience
  • 🚀 Convenient and accessible
  • 🚀 Personalized and feature-rich

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Broken SSO login
  • 🐛 Continuous app freezing and glitching
  • 🐛 Inability to set a PIN
  • 🐛 Clunky interface for certain features
  • 🐛 Incorrect payments and payroll issues

Bugs and requests

Spaces

Reported bugs

36 issues
  • Door unlock is a buggy mess
  • App crashes constantly
  • App won't load after update
  • App forgets login details after updates
  • App keeps erroring and restarting login process
Show 31 more
  • App does not work on phone
  • Confirmation email not arriving after update
  • Login stopped working after update
  • Slow to load Bluetooth options
  • Secure link for login sent too slowly
  • Email authentication issues
  • App signs out automatically
  • App not working
  • Cannot register, stalls
  • Progress indicator animation badly drawn
  • App asks to add payment account daily
  • Cannot book coworking space
  • Virtual key never works
  • Login screen shows blank screen
  • App requires download for internet access
  • App automatically chooses Greek language
  • App doesn't work
  • Cannot login or register
  • Unacceptable content-type text/html error
  • App doesn't remember details
  • Code sending issues (text and email)
  • App prevents using Apple Wallet
  • App doesn't generate password automatically
  • App doesn't support iPhone XS Max full screen
  • App crashes all the time
  • Cannot change credit card details for months
  • App doesn't accept Citibank Mastercard
  • Duplicate reservations with no warnings
  • App doesn't let you book office space since December update
  • Registration process too short for email delivery
  • App doesn't work with Office 365 email addresses

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add Apple Pay
  • Add Apple Watch app
  • Make app available on Apple Watch
  • Make app usable in landscape mode on iPad
  • Improve UI for finding Wi-Fi code
Show 6 more
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve font size and contrast for readability
  • Allow adding pass to iPhone Wallet
  • Improve login process with password managers
  • Add option to save payment methods
  • Make check-in a one-click system

Deel

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Inability to submit support requests

Requested features

3 requests
  • Live chat option
  • Dark mode
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

In-app purchases

None

Spaces

No in-app purchases

None

Deel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spaces free?
Spaces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deel free?
Deel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spaces or Deel?
Deel is rated higher. Spaces averages 3.4 out of 5 from 118 ratings, while Deel averages 4.8 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Spaces or Deel have ads?
Neither Spaces nor Deel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spaces or Deel?
Spaces ships an update fortnightly, and Deel weekly. Most recently, Spaces was updated on September 22, 2026 and Deel on September 22, 2026.

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