Foxie. vs Joinstar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Foxie.
This social network focuses on connecting users through real-world activities and gatherings. Discover events, join group chats, and message other users to engage with your community.
- Action-driven social network
- Discover activities and gatherings
- Three distinct content feeds
- Join and comment on events
- Create and detail your own activities
- Direct messaging and group chats
- Map-based activity discovery
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Foxie is an action driven social network. What is an action driven network? Foxie is focused on truly connecting and engaging with the world around you through activities and gatherings. How? You have three ways of viewing what's going on around you in the world. 3 feeds One of the world, everyone's post, one of your friends, and one of the posts from the maps that people have pinned an activity from the map. You see the posts and you get the details about them like the time and place and you can join the activity and see who's going. You're also allowed to comment on it and more! You also can set the activity up with as much as details as you like. You have the ability to message other users, be a part of the group chats. You can also discover users, activities on discovery and much more. You can go to maps and see the activities going on around you by other's pins. Foxie is great for anyone that wants to find new friends in a city, is traveling, wants to attend events with another person and many more use cases. PS. We don't sell your data, we don't have any algorithms , no vanity metrics, we don't have ads or any of that stuff you dislike.
Joinstar
Discover and connect with people in your network who are traveling to the same destinations or live in places you're visiting. Never miss an opportunity to meet up with friends again.
- Connect with people traveling to same places
- Find friends visiting your hometown
- Discover people living where you travel
- Never miss meetups with friends
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Joinstar connects you with people in your network that are traveling to the same places as you, living in the places you are traveling to, or visiting your hometown. With Joinstar, you will never miss out on chances to meet up with your friends again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Foxie. at free against Joinstar's ad-supported. Foxie. also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 — 4.9 for Foxie. against 5.0 for Joinstar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Foxie. has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Foxie. | Joinstar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Edison Espinosa | Joinstar LLC |
Customer experience
Foxie.
Joinstar
In-app purchases
Foxie.
No in-app purchases
Joinstar
No in-app purchases
