Flatmate Finders vs SWEC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flatmate Finders
Find your ideal home or flatmate with personalized searches, detailed profiles, and secure communication features. The app offers free in-app calls and notifications for new matches and messages, ensuring a quick and safe search experience.
- Personalized searches
- Detailed user profiles
- Instant messaging
- Free in-app calls
- Home listing reviews
- Match notifications
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Personalised searches, detailed profiles, instant messages and free in-app calls ensure that you find the perfect home or flatmate quickly, easily and safely. Every home listing is reviewed by our team to help you get the best results. You'll receive notifications about new matches and messages so you don't miss out. Suitable for people of all ages, shared and vacant homes, short to long-term stays, singles/couples/friends, LGBTI+, pet friendly homes, and all rent budgets.
SWEC
Stay connected with church services, sermons, and community events. Access the Bible, engage with social media, and support the church's mission.
- Watch live and past services
- Listen to sermons
- Read the Bible
- Connect via social media
- Join community groups
- Support church initiatives
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Stay up to date with South-West Evangelical Church (SWEC) across our English and Mandarin services using our handy app. † WATCH the latest service “live” with the sermon “outline” and past services. † LISTEN to the latest sermon and past sermons. † READ the Bible while watching the latest service or listening to the latest sermon or for your own personal “quiet time.” † CONNECT with us through Facebook and Instagram, special events, Community Groups, and our kids, youth and playgroup programs. † PARTNER with us through serving and financial giving. SWEC is a church in the south-west of Sydney that aims to be vibrantly Biblical, Spirit-led and missional. Our vision is to grow worshipping communities overflowing with the good news of Jesus so that people from all nations will experience Christ’s transforming love and Lordship. The mission of SWEC is to make, mature, mobilise and multiply disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SWEC at none against Flatmate Finders's 13. SWEC also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Flatmate Finders sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. SWEC asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flatmate Finders ships an update every 3 weeks, SWEC every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flatmate Finders | SWEC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | FLATMATE FINDERS PTY LTD | Brett Jackson |
Customer experience
Flatmate Finders
SWEC
Bugs and requests
Flatmate Finders
Reported bugs
8 issues- App is very slow and sometimes does not load
- Messages not loading
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Filters are ignored
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- App deactivates profiles without clear reason
- Issues with dark mode
- Message field could be bigger
Requested features
15 requests- Allow setting hard filters for matches
- Improve filtering options (gender, couples, pets, budget)
- Add tenant review system
- Implement landlord background checks
- Allow cutting and pasting mobile numbers
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- Enable calling directly from the app
- Filter out inactive users
- Show last online date on profiles
- Filter by move-in date preferences
- More gender options
- Remove sexuality as a filter criterion
- Improve the matching algorithm accuracy
- Allow deleting profiles from matches feed
- Larger message field
- Improve dark mode functionality
SWEC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flatmate Finders
- Audio and video call service2 variants$2.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$7.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$9.99
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- Flatmate service for 14 days$12.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month2 variants$14.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$19.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$22.99
SWEC
No in-app purchases
