Circles.World vs BostApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circles.World
A mobile-first social platform for communities to connect, share resources, and organize discussions. It allows admins to manage members, send targeted messages, and segment information effectively. Members can receive updates via email or push notifications.
- Community member management
- Segmented information sharing
- Real-time notifications
- Multi-channel messaging
- Private one-to-one messages
- Manage multiple communities
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A social platform designed specifically for the needs of communities: Circles provides one place where you can include everyone, share resources and focus the conversation. With its mobile first design and simple interface, the platform helps you segment information and keep everyone in your community organized and involved. As an admin you can manage your community members on the move and stay connected to your leaders and team. Have confidence that you are reaching each community member in the way that works for them: by email, web or mobile app. All while allowing you to manage all of your communities in one place. You can: * Send a message once and know it will reach everyone in your group * Add members on the fly * Stay informed - get real time notifications about things happening within your community * Enable push notifications for your members * Allow your community members to send and receive messages in the way that works for them: either email or via push notifications * Send private one-to-one messages * Host a discussion within your community * Segment information into: resources, photos & announcements * Manage multiple communities in one place * Provide your community members with a simple log-in experience (no password login) So round up your people and get stuff done...
BostApp
Connect with your local community through posts, direct messages, and location-based exploration. Discover events, share information, and find people nearby for social connections or local deals.
- Location-based posts
- Direct messaging
- Community exploration
- Post categorization
- User interaction (like, comment, bookmark)
- Customizable notification areas
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Bost is a social media app that connects you with people around you and allows you to socialize with your local community via posting, messaging and exploring other users in your area! The greatest feature about Bost is that it provides you with relevant posts from users near your current location, which can be specified as precisely as in a same town, on a same street, and even at a same building. Under one of these categories (commercial promotion, social connection, information inquiry, and news & alerts), you can create a post with picture and choose its coverage area ranging from near you to whole world! You can like, dislike, bookmark and comment on posts from other users, or send a direct message to the author. You will be notified if your post received a response, plus you can set the area where you would like to read posts from as well as language preference. It is our mission to connect you with local community. As an individual, you can use Bost to: find social events in your area, reach out to your neighbors to help find lost pet, get notified about what happened in surrounding area, ask information or have discussion with people that are around you, post a note about an upcoming garage sale at neighborhood, seek a roommate from nearby, invite neighbors to your party, and even converse with someone sitting in the same night club! Last but not the least, you can find a lot of good deals from local merchants. As an organization, you can use Bost to promote sales, run a campaign in local area and relate to local residents. Join Bost to significantly expand your social connections with real people in the same area. You can explore public users based on their location, age group, gender and social status, and directly contact them for free. Happy Bosting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Circles.World at 100% against BostApp's 50%. Circles.World also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). BostApp's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Circles.World holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Circles.World's written reviews are positive against 50% of BostApp's.
Circles.World ships an update every 4 months, BostApp monthly. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Circles.World | BostApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laura Waters | Bost Medios |
Customer experience
Circles.World
BostApp
In-app purchases
Circles.World
No in-app purchases
BostApp
No in-app purchases









