Bailiwik vs Proxi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bailiwik
Connect with people who share your physical spaces, like neighborhoods or workplaces. Create or join communities to foster a sense of belonging and facilitate real-world interactions. Discover local events and deals, and get to know your neighbors.
- Create and curate place-based communities
- Connect online and offline
- Member directory
- Discover and promote local events
- Access local merchant deals
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Bailiwiks are communities that share a place: a neighborhood, a co-working office, a dog park -- anywhere people come together on a regular basis. Create a community that makes the people who share a place feel welcome and connected -- or join one created by someone else. Get to know the people you see every day, and turn your shared place into a real community that connects online and off! Put yourself at the center of the community. Create and curate a community for a place you care about. • Turn a place into a real community that connects online and off. • Make people feel welcome. Bailiwiks are hosted and curated by real people. That could be you! • Chat with the people around you. Get to know the people you see every day. • Put names to those familiar faces with our member directory. • Find nearby events -- or promote your own, for free. • Get deals from local merchants -- or offer your own, for free.
Proxi
This app provides a dedicated space for local groups to organize, communicate, and coordinate activities. It offers structured channels and threads to manage conversations and planning, moving away from chaotic group texts.
- Manage clubs and groups
- Organize conversations into channels
- Coordinate events and activities
- Structured discussion with threads
- Manage roles and permissions
- Receive relevant notifications
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Proxi helps run clubs, tennis clubs, and pickleball groups stay organized. Proxi is a community-based app built for real, local groups that meet in the real world — run clubs, tennis clubs, pickleball groups, teams, and neighborhood communities. Instead of noisy public feeds or messy group texts, Proxi gives each group a dedicated place to organize, coordinate, and communicate. Create or join a community, organize conversations into channels, and keep planning focused with threads. Whether you’re scheduling weekly runs, coordinating matches, managing open play, or sharing updates, Proxi keeps your group in sync without the chaos. What you can do with Proxi - Manage a run club, tennis club, or pickleball group - Coordinate practices, matches, and recurring events - Chat in structured channels instead of endless group texts - Reply in threads to keep planning and discussion organized - React to messages and stay up to date on activity - Manage roles like owner, admin, and member - Get notified when something actually matters Proxi is built for smaller, real-world communities — not followers, not algorithms, not ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bailiwik at none against Proxi's 1. Bailiwik also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 3). Proxi's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Proxi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bailiwik asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bailiwik against 5.0 for Proxi. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bailiwik has 15 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.
Bailiwik ships an update every 3 weeks, Proxi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bailiwik | Proxi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bailiwik Inc. | Christian Toouli |
Customer experience
Bailiwik
Proxi
In-app purchases
Bailiwik
No in-app purchases
Proxi
- Start 3 New Conversations$14.99









