Perkbox vs MatesPlace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perkbox
Access exclusive employee perks, discounts, and wellbeing resources. Recognize colleagues, track savings, and manage your benefits all in one convenient app. Enhance your everyday with employer-provided advantages.
- Thousands of deals and discounts
- Instant savings and savings tracker
- Colleague recognition and greeting cards
- Wellbeing resources (fitness, mindfulness)
- Employee benefits management
- Workout and yoga videos
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With Perkbox, you get more from your everyday: save money with perks and discounts, look after your wellbeing with our library of resources, celebrate your teammates and get the most out of your benefits. Everything your employer offers you is now in one easy-to-use app, right at your fingertips. Discover great savings, recognition, wellbeing support, and benefits, all in one place. • Perks • - Access thousands of deals and discounts from top brands worldwide - Enjoy instant savings on vouchers, online and in-store - Track how much you’ve saved with our handy Savings tracker • Recognition • - Celebrate colleagues for their achievements and milestones - Send and receive recognition from anyone in your company - Collaborate on greeting cards to mark special moments together • Wellbeing • - Tap into a library of resources covering fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and more - Follow along with workout, yoga, and pilates videos - Focus on a new area each month with highlighted playlists • Benefits • - Explore employee benefits designed to support your everyday needs - See everything your employer provides in one simple place
MatesPlace
Find flats and flatmates in the UK through your social network. Connect with friends of friends for secure and trusted housing options. Ideal for students, professionals, and those new to the UK.
- Find flats and flatmates
- Connect through friends of friends
- Secure and trusted housing
- Control search by connection degree
- Award-winning customer support
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MatesPlace is the only app to help you to find flats and flatmates through friends of friends. Whether you're looking for a spare room or whole house in the UK, using MatesPlace you have the reassurance and security of finding a place through friends of friends and your wider social network. You can control the search to your preferred degrees of connection, meaning safer, trusted and more reliable places to live. We’ve helped thousands of people find their perfect flatmates and flatshare, becoming friends for life. Whether you’re doing an internship, leaving university, moving to the UK or just looking for a change – we’re here to help. We’re all about quality over quantity which is why everything we’ve achieved has been through word of mouth and recommendations. Our award-winning customer support team can help you with your search. If you require support, find a bug or want to provide feedback, you can message us and look forward to a speedy response.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perkbox at 4.8 against MatesPlace's 3.7. Perkbox also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). MatesPlace's advantage is review sentiment (57% vs 18%). On price, update cadence, monetization model and device support 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. MatesPlace sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Perkbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Perkbox holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of Perkbox's written reviews are positive against 57% of MatesPlace's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Perkbox ships an update every 3 weeks, MatesPlace every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perkbox | MatesPlace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (13 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.5% of reviews | 56.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Perkbox Limited | mymatespace ltd |
Customer experience
Perkbox
MatesPlace
User reviews
Perkbox
From 13 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good idea for workplace
- 👍 Saves money on shopping
- 👍 Good way to reward employees
- 👍 Can get high % discounts
- 👍 Free coffees are appreciated
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 App is slow and unusable
- 🐛 Vouchers not working
- 🐛 Poor value for employees
MatesPlace
From 3 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Innovative concept of using social connections
- 👍 User-friendly and modern design
- 🤝 Great for finding trusted flatmates
- 🌍 Useful for finding accommodation remotely
- ✅ Reliable and safer than other platforms
Room to improve
- ❌ Inactive/outdated listings
- ❌ Poor search and filtering options
- ❌ Expensive for premium features
- ❌ Difficult to post ads
- ❌ Users don't reply
Bugs and requests
Perkbox
Reported bugs
47 issues- App crashes when inputting money value
- App crashes when purchasing vouchers
- App crashes on launching vouchers
- App crashes on opening
- App freezes
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- Login screen freezes
- App logs out permanently
- Cannot log in after update
- Email address doesn't exist after code entry
- Code disappears and doesn't work
- Cannot redeem points for vouchers
- Order gets to last stages and loads for hours then crashes
- Cannot use or buy anything for weeks
- App gets stuck on loading screen
- White page and loading signal
- App doesn't load
- Spinner displayed instead of login screen
- App buffering and won't open
- Secure parking unavailable
- Transaction failed and money deducted
- Chat to us feature shows error
- Error when viewing balance
- Broken letters in error message
- Codes don't work or display as used
- Gift card code not recognized
- App shows 'some sort of error' on login
- App doesn't accept password
- Linking card error
- Perks are expired as live ones
- App requires update but none available
- Stuck on blue load up page
- Oops message when clicking perks
- App forgets login details
- App doesn't work since latest update
- App fails to log in
- Server message
- Error encountered on home page
- App doesn't connect to payment/banking
- Needs powerful WiFi to work, not 4G
- Error message on the app
- App doesn't save favourites
- Loses place when scrolling through vouchers
- New app sends user to dodgy website
- Cannot get a signal to open voucher
- App doesn't work on iPhone 12
- User doesn't exist error
- Cannot do it through company domain
Requested features
13 requests- Add a favorites or wish list feature
- Improve accessibility for VoiceOver users
- Allow vouchers to automatically update as 'used'
- Make it easier to transfer vouchers to wallet
- Add a search function for perks
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- Improve the layout of offers
- Streamline the redeem process
- Fix the modal redeem close button
- Allow users to paste passwords
- Make it easier to top up cards
- Allow users to sync with their account
- Add dark mode option
- Allow users to favorite perks at the top of the home screen
MatesPlace
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes frequently
- App logs out on closing
- Cannot report problems, sign out, or delete account
- Messages not sending completely
- Posts not being verified
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- Search saving not working
- Filters not working correctly
- Loading of places is bad
- App freezes when writing bio
- Outdated listings not removed
Requested features
9 requests- Add age range filter
- Allow distance filter below 5 miles
- Integrate Facebook friends for connections
- Improve search refinement
- Add option to sort by price low to high
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- Add filters for parking, en-suite, etc.
- View flats from a map
- Automatically remove leading zero from phone numbers
- Allow filtering by pet-friendliness
In-app purchases
Perkbox
No in-app purchases
MatesPlace
- Ready to go$11.99
- Taking it easy$22.99
- Waiting for the one$24.99
