SwipeRed vs Up n Around
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.
Up n Around
Easily see which friends are available for spontaneous meetups. Set your free time with a tap, and instantly create group chats to make plans. Focus on hanging out, not endless coordination.
- One-tap availability setting
- Live view of friends' availability
- Instant group chat creation
- Lock screen and widget support
- Private by default
- Countdown timer for availability
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Up n Around is the simplest way to turn free time into real plans. Set how long you’re free with one tap and your friends see you’re around. See who else is up for something right now — no endless texting, no “maybe later.” When a few people are free, spin up a group chat and go. • One-tap availability — show you’re free for 30 minutes or a few hours. It counts down and clears itself. • See who’s around — a live view of which friends are up for something right now. • Instant group chats — get the free people into one thread and make it happen. • Lock Screen & widgets — adjust your availability without opening the app (Live Activity, Dynamic Island, home widget, Apple Watch). • Private by default — you control who sees you’re free. No public feed, no follower counts. Stop planning. Start hanging out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Up n Around at 5.0 against SwipeRed's 4.1. Up n Around also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 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.
Up n Around holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively.
SwipeRed ships an update every 2 months, Up n Around every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SwipeRed | Up n Around |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buzz360 LLC | David Pontes |
Customer experience
SwipeRed
Up n Around
In-app purchases
SwipeRed
No in-app purchases
Up n Around
No in-app purchases
