Komyoon vs FriendCircle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Komyoon
This app serves as a professional directory for the commercial creative industry. It helps users discover and connect with artists and production specialists for projects, and allows creatives to be discovered by industry professionals. It's designed for producers, agencies, and brands looking for talent.
- Discover commercial creative talent
- Connect with artists and production specialists
- Share talent with your team
- Find photographers, illustrators, directors, and more
- Business-to-business platform for industry professionals
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KOMYOON is the creative directory built for commercial professionals. Whether you’re producing a global campaign or searching for fresh voices in a niche, KOMYOON makes it easy to discover talent, share with your team, and connect with both artists and production specialists. Producers, creatives, agencies, and brands use KOMYOON to find, share, and hire the right talent for every project—quickly and with confidence. Our platform features a broad mix of emerging and established talent, including: Photographers Illustrators Directors Animators CGI artists and studios Production specialists and crew (hair & makeup, wardrobe stylists, set designers, and more) The platform brings together the creatives, crew, and producers who shape commercial work. KOMYOON is a business-to-business platform designed exclusively for industry professionals who work at the intersection of creativity, production, and brand storytelling. Discover. Be Discovered. Where Creativity Meets Opportunity.
FriendCircle
Share photos and links privately with your real friends, without ads or algorithms. Connect using your phone number and see posts chronologically. Focus on genuine connections, not performance metrics.
- Private photo and link sharing
- No ads or sponsored content
- Chronological feed
- Connect via phone number
- No likes or engagement metrics
- Mutual friend connections
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Share photos with the people who actually matter. No strangers, no analytics, no ads. Just your real friends, your own FriendCircle. FriendCircle is a private moment sharing app built around one idea: social media should be about your actual friends. Not followers. Not fans. Not an algorithm deciding who deserves your attention. HOW IT WORKS Sign up with your phone number. No email, no password, no username. FriendCircle checks your contacts to show you who's already here. Send a friend request, and when they accept, you're connected. That's the only way in. Every connection is mutual, every friend is someone you already know. Your feed is chronological. Posts appear in the order they were shared, not ranked by an algorithm. Share photos and links with captions. Comment on your friends' posts. That's it. No likes, no reshares, no metrics telling you how well your life is performing. WHAT MAKES FRIENDCIRCLE DIFFERENT What you WON'T find here: • Ads or sponsored content • In-app purchases or subscriptions • An algorithm deciding what you see • Like counts, follower counts, or engagement scores • Public profiles or discoverability by strangers FriendCircle is Social media as it should be. Life Happens Offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FriendCircle at every 4 days against Komyoon's monthly. FriendCircle also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
FriendCircle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 13 respectively.
Komyoon ships an update monthly, FriendCircle every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Komyoon | FriendCircle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Komyoon Inc. | SETSUDO, K.K. |
Customer experience
Komyoon
FriendCircle
In-app purchases
Komyoon
No in-app purchases
FriendCircle
No in-app purchases









