SwipeRed vs Locals.com
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SwipeRed
Empower yourself to support causes and candidates you care about. Connect with friends to share information and advocate for your chosen campaigns through personalized messages and social media.
- Advocate for causes and candidates
- Connect with friends for outreach
- Share campaign information
- Send personalized texts and emails
- Engage with candidates
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SwipeRed puts the power to make positive change in our community and country in your hands. Have you ever thought you want to help a cause or a candidate but don’t have much time, or you don’t know what to do and what to say? SwipeRed is your answer. If gives you the tools to advocate for the campaign, issue or cause that you and your friends care the most about. With SwipeRed’s relational outreach you connect with your friends to share exciting information and shape the world. Say you are supporting a candidate for House, you can engage with the candidate, you can share the candidate's point of view with your friends through social media or sending them a personalized text or email right from your phone.
Locals.com
Connect directly with creators and communities you admire. This platform prioritizes user control and creator ownership, offering features like live streaming, community feeds, and content libraries. Support creators independently without algorithmic interference.
- Direct creator support
- Algorithm-free content feeds
- Creator data ownership
- Live streaming with chat
- Community feeds and posts
- Content libraries (video/audio)
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Directly support the creators you love. Control your content and avoid the algorithms. Built from the ground up to champion the needs of creators, Locals does not sell your data and creators have unprecedented ownership over theirs. With features like live-streaming with chat, community feeds and posts, and content libraries for video and audio, the Locals app is an all-in-one solution to interact with the content you love, while directly supporting the independence of the communities and creators you care about. Power to the people. Not the platform. On Locals. https://locals.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Locals.com at 4.7 against SwipeRed's 4.0. Locals.com also leads on ratings volume (42K vs 9) and chart position (#113 vs unranked). SwipeRed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Locals.com sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. SwipeRed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Locals.com holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locals.com has 42K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SwipeRed ships an update every 2 months, Locals.com every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SwipeRed | Locals.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 4.7 (42K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 53.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 42K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #113 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Buzz360 LLC | Locals Technology Inc |
Customer experience
SwipeRed
Locals.com
Bugs and requests
SwipeRed
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Locals.com
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Disappearing notifications
- Orientation issues on iPad
- Inconsistent audio/video sync
- Unreliable live stream playback
Requested features
5 requests- Download option for offline viewing
- Better nested comments and community management
- Improved integration with Rumble platform
- Customizable notification settings
- Picture-in-picture mode for video playback
In-app purchases
SwipeRed
No in-app purchases
Locals.com
- Monthly: 50 coins + 20 bonus$7.991 Month
- 20 Coins$1.99
- 50 Coins$4.99
- 50$7.99
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- 100 Coins$9.99
- 100$14.99
- 150 Coins$14.99
- 200$19.99
- 210 Coins$20.99
- 300 Coins$29.99
- 360 Coins$35.99
- 500 Coins$49.99









