Planetary Social vs Knotra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planetary Social
A peer-to-peer social media platform focused on personal connections and censorship resistance. It prioritizes user ownership of content and relationships, operating without algorithms or advertisements. Compatible with other Secure Scuttlebutt protocol apps, it works both online and offline.
- Peer-to-peer data sharing
- Censorship resistant network
- User ownership of content
- No advertisements or algorithms
- Offline and off-grid functionality
- Open source
- Compatible with Secure Scuttlebutt apps
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Peer to peer social media for humans, not algorithms. Planetary passes data from friend to friend, creating a network that is personal, censorship resistant, and minimizes abuse and spam. Planetary gives you ownership over your relationships and content, and is compatible with any app using the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol. In Planetary there are no advertisements or artificial intelligence algorithms trying to make you feel a certain way. Your content lives on your device and the devices of those around you, it isn't owned or controlled by a corporation. Experience social networking where you're the customer, not the product. Unlike most social media, Planetary: - Does not sell your data. - Is naturally spam-resistant. - Compatible with other apps including Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfox, feedless, and more. - Works off-grid and offline. - Allows you to take your friends with you if you decide to move to another client. - Is open source! No one company should own the Internet’s public spaces, which is why we’re building on —and contributing back to— the open source Secure Scuttlebutt ecosystem. Their core technologies let us recreate a social network experience, but in a decentralized way that no one organization can dominate.
Knotra
Connect with like-minded individuals in focused community spaces. Discover and join discussions around shared interests, from hobbies to technology, and build more meaningful social connections.
- Discover communities
- Join topic-based conversations
- Create posts and reply
- Follow conversations
- Connect with people
- Personal social experience
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Knotra is a community platform for people who care about gaming, technology, AI, and the conversations happening around them. Discover communities, follow topics you care about, create posts, share images and videos, and join discussions with people who have similar interests. Knotra is built around community-driven discovery. Recommend posts you think deserve more attention, bury content that adds little value, and help shape what rises across the platform. Discover what matters Explore communities focused on gaming, technology, AI, and other shared interests. Join the conversation Create posts, reply to discussions, react to comments, and connect with people around the topics you care about. Recommend the best content Recommend great posts and help useful conversations reach more people. Bury the noise Community feedback helps reduce low-value content and keeps discussions more useful. Community and editorial stories together Discover posts from the community alongside Knotra editorial coverage, giving you news, discussion, and different perspectives in one place. Personalized discovery Find communities and conversations based on the topics and content you interact with. Whether you're following the latest game release, discussing new technology, keeping up with AI, or just looking for a better place to talk about the things you're interested in, Knotra gives you a community built around conversation rather than endless noise. Join Knotra and help shape what gets discovered.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Knotra at 5.0 against Planetary Social's 4.1. Planetary Social's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Knotra sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Planetary Social asks for nothing beyond the download.
Knotra holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planetary Social has 37 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planetary Social ships an update every 9 days, Knotra every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planetary Social | Knotra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Verse Communications Inc | Knotra LLC |
Customer experience
Planetary Social
Knotra
In-app purchases
Planetary Social
No in-app purchases
Knotra
- Knotra Pro$6.991 Month
- Knotra Pro Yearly$59.991 Year









