Comparison

Proximity by Zonzon vs SagMal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Proximity by Zonzon

Connect with neighbors based on shared interests and priorities within your private community. This app facilitates real-life connections and helps you make plans with people nearby, moving beyond random scrolling and public social media.

Highlights
  • Private, property-based community
  • Connect based on shared interests
  • Prioritized matching for best-fit connections
  • Facilitates real-life meetups and events
  • Private one-on-one conversations
  • Create or join community groups
Features
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Zonzon is a private community app built for real-life connection inside your property. Instead of endless scrolling, random posting, or matching with strangers across town, Zonzon helps you meet nearby neighbors based on shared interests, compatible priorities, and the kinds of plans you’d actually follow through on. Whether you live in an apartment, condo, or HOA community, Zonzon turns your property into a more connected network—so meeting people nearby feels easier and more natural. What makes Zonzon different? ○ Private by design Zonzon is property-based. The people you see are part of your real community, not strangers from all over the city. ○ Built around shared interests Choose what you actually want to do—work out, grab food, walk dogs, ride, hike, explore, and more. Your interests shape who you see. ○ Better introductions, not more noise Zonzon is not a dating app, not public social media, and not a complaint board. It is a private introduction system designed to help neighbors meet intentionally. ○ Prioritized matching Rank what matters most to you. Zonzon surfaces neighbors who align with your strongest shared interests and best-fit priorities first. ○ Chat when you’re ready When there’s a strong match, start the conversation and decide whether you want to meet up. You stay in control. ○ Make real plans Create or join groups for workouts, dinners, rides, meetups, and more. RSVP, schedule events, and move from “we should hang out sometime” to actually doing it. What you can do on Zonzon • Meet neighbors who share your interests • Start one-on-one conversations with strong matches • Create or join groups inside your community • Plan dinners, workouts, walks, rides, and other meetups • See what’s happening in your building or community • Discover new people nearby without the pressure of public posting Designed for real-world follow-through Zonzon was redesigned to reduce confusion, lower pressure, and make the value obvious from the start: this is a calm, guided system for real introductions inside physical communities. The experience emphasizes interest-based connections and meaningful action over passive browsing. If you’ve ever thought: It would be great if I knew a couple of neighbors. I’d meet people if it were easier. I wish there were a better way than random posting or awkward introductions. Zonzon was built for that. Download Zonzon and start meeting the people already around you.

About

SagMal

This app prioritizes user privacy with anonymous registration, double-encrypted messaging, and server-side message deletion. It offers features to disguise contact names and photos, making it ideal for discreet communication.

Highlights
  • Anonymous registration (no email/phone)
  • Double-encrypted messaging
  • Server-side message deletion
  • Contact and photo disguise
  • Secure Swiss servers
  • Optional chat encryption key
Features
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SagMal ("Tell Me" in German) is a new chatting app like no other, where the foremost is your privacy. • You provide absolutely nothing of your personal details when registering. No phone, no e-mail. Therefore, there is no way your personal data can be stolen or given away. • We use doble encoding using state-of-the art encoding algorithms. You can easily encode any chat and it won’t be even obvious that it’s encoded (see 3 first screenshots) to your significant other or any official. • Messages are deleted from the server as soon as they're delivered. And the servers are based in neutral Switzerland, unreachable to most of the the Big Brothers. • It’s very easy to change pictures and names of your contacts so that your significant other or the authorities won’t suspect who you’re talking to. • This app is ideal for: o Wife/husband cheaters, you will be very difficult to catch o Anyone who is not willing to receive targeted advertisement, or who simply doesn’t want to give away your personal details o Anyone willing to go or to organize a meeting that has not been authorized by the State. The Big Brother will have a hard time catching you We use double encoding with state-of-the-art encoding algorithms where nobody (even us) can decode your messages. To enable double-encoding set the chatroom password at the beginning and let it know to whoever you're chatting to right away. For extra safety do not use chat to inform about your chatroom password. Note that your chat messages are encoded anyways (even if you don't provide an extra password), but with this additional password you get a second encoding on top of the first one. And not only text but all the images are encoded as well. Here is an incomplete list of SagMal chat features: - No need to give your phone or E-mail when registering. Just the good old way of providing a username and a password. - We delete all messages from our servers as soon as they are delivered. - There are no "bots" like in some other messaging apps that can provide anyone with your registration information, nicknames, etc. - Our servers and hosting are located in neutral Switzerland. - Your personal data can't be stolen from our servers - just because there is no personal data available - we don't know your e-mail and phone number. - But this is not all - for each chat window you have the possibility to encode the chat contents with a unique key that we won't know. You just let this key know to your chat counterpart. - Using a key you can easily encode your chat. This is the way to have private conversations that won't be seen by your husband or your wife, your parents or authorities. Also photos will be encoded as well! - SagMal chat app protects you from your "Big brother" - there is no way they will know that you plan to go to a meeting where you're not supposed to go. - Very easy to delete messages, from both, yours and your counterpart devices. You can also set how long a message will live before it will be automatically deleted. - Possibility to have multiple accounts on the same device. Very easy to switch between accounts. - Delete a contact or add it to a blocked list is easy by swiping a contact to the left. - Refresh contact list or data from the server by pulling the view down. - Messages just sent are in italic font, received by the server are in normal font and received by the user are in bold. Please let us know if you find any bugs or wish to see some improvements or new features. The app is free to send text, audio messages, images and small videos (up to 10 MB per day). If you want to send larger media files you can purchase a subscription which renews monthly . Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sagmalchat.com/privacysmch

Screenshots

Proximity by Zonzon4 screens
SagMal3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SagMal at 5.0 against Proximity by Zonzon's 4.0. Proximity by Zonzon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SagMal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Proximity by Zonzon asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SagMal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Proximity by Zonzon has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Proximity by Zonzon ships an update monthly, SagMal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Proximity by Zonzon versus SagMal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProximity by ZonzonSagMal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB105 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZonzon IncVassili Kaplan

Customer experience

Proximity by Zonzon

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

SagMal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Proximity by Zonzon

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SagMal

Subscriptions1
  • Images and Videos$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Proximity by Zonzon free?
Proximity by Zonzon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SagMal free?
SagMal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Proximity by Zonzon or SagMal?
SagMal is rated higher. Proximity by Zonzon averages 4.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while SagMal averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Proximity by Zonzon or SagMal have ads?
Neither Proximity by Zonzon nor SagMal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Proximity by Zonzon or SagMal?
Proximity by Zonzon ships an update monthly, and SagMal fortnightly. Most recently, Proximity by Zonzon was updated on September 17, 2026 and SagMal on June 14, 2026.

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