Comparison

Circle Communities vs That Glasgow Witch

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

Head to head
About

Circle Communities

Stay connected with your online communities on the go. This app lets you participate in discussions, join live streams, and track events for any Circle.so community you're a part of. It's designed for both members and creators to manage their community interactions seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Community discussions
  • Live stream hosting and joining
  • Event tracking
  • On-the-go community management
  • Message notifications
Features
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The official companion app for your Circle community is here! If you’re a member or creator of a Circle.so community, our app allows you to keep up with your discussions, events, and messages on the go. Join and host live streams, keep track of upcoming events, and never miss a beat on any of your Circle communities.

About

That Glasgow Witch

This app provides a community space for exploring Scottish folk practice, seasonal living, witchcraft, and spiritual connection. It offers teachings, guided resources, discussion forums, and workshops for a grounded, non-dogmatic spiritual practice.

Highlights
  • Seasonal teachings and reflections
  • Witch's Wheel and daily energies calendar
  • Scottish folk practice resources
  • Guided meditations
  • Workshops and structured learning
  • Discussion spaces
Features
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Fàl is an online community space rooted in Scottish folk practice, seasonal living, witchcraft, and everyday spiritual connection. Created by That Glasgow Witch, Fàl offers a steady place to gather, learn, reflect, and build a living practice in community. The app brings together seasonal teachings, folk practice, guided resources, discussion spaces, book recommendations, calendar support, and workshops for those who want depth without dogma. The name Fàl speaks to the idea of a boundary, hedge, or enclosure: a protected space that is also a threshold. Inside the app, that spirit shapes the community. Fàl is a place for kindness, accountability, respect, curiosity, and meaningful spiritual practice. Within the app, members can explore the community in a way that suits their practice. The Hedge offers an introduction to Fàl, with selected materials from across the wider community. This gives new members a way to explore the space, experience the tone of the work, and access choice resources before moving more deeply into the app. First Footing includes a discussion board, book club, and daily energies calendar. This space supports regular connection, shared reflection, and conversation around seasonal practice, spiritual learning, books, and the rhythms of everyday life. The deeper practice area includes The Witch’s Wheel calendar, book recommendations, older folk material, guided meditations, and focused discussion spaces on subjects such as astrology, herbalism, Scottish folk practice, seasonal ritual, and related areas of spiritual work. This area is designed for those who want a more developed practice space with resources they can return to throughout the year. The teaching area brings together curated workshops and structured learning. These teachings offer guided exploration of practice, history, ritual, and spiritual craft in a way that can be revisited at your own pace. Inside Fàl, members can access: Seasonal teachings and reflections connected to the Wheel of the Year The Witch’s Wheel calendar and daily energies calendar Scottish folk practice resources, including saining, hearth work, threshold magic, plant wisdom, charms, divination, offerings, and ancestral connection Updates, resources, and teachings from That Glasgow Witch Fàl is for witches, pagans, folk practitioners, and spiritually curious people who want to build a grounded practice in their real life. Whether you are new, returning, or already deeply rooted in your craft, the community is designed to support steady learning, personal reflection, and connection with others walking a similar path. Fàl is not about fear, performance, or gatekeeping. It is a living community for those drawn to seasonal rhythm, Scottish folk custom, ancestral connection, land-based practice, and the magic of ordinary life.

Screenshots

Circle Communities4 screens
That Glasgow Witch4 screens

Verdict

The call

Circle Communities and That Glasgow Witch both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of That Glasgow Witch's written reviews are positive against 65% of Circle Communities's. Circle Communities's advantage is ratings volume (87K vs 1.1K) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Circle Communities against 5.0 for That Glasgow Witch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Circle Communities has 87K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Circle Communities's written reviews are positive against 95% of That Glasgow Witch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Circle Communities ships an update fortnightly, That Glasgow Witch every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Circle Communities versus That Glasgow Witch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircle CommunitiesThat Glasgow Witch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (87K ratings)5.0 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.0% of reviews94.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings87K — better1.1K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#78 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB91 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCircleCo IncCRAOIBHE-CAORAINN LTD

Customer experience

Circle Communities

All ratings87,000 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews812 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral8.9%
Negative26.1%

That Glasgow Witch

All ratings949 ratings
Positive99.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%

Bugs and requests

Circle Communities

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Disappearing messages and notifications
  • Inability to access certain communities
  • Malformed data errors and login issues
  • Compatibility problems with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save draft posts and comments
  • Improved text editing and cursor control
  • Better video playback controls and functionality
  • Syncing notifications and activity across devices
  • More customization and personalization options

That Glasgow Witch

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Circle Communities

No in-app purchases

None

That Glasgow Witch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Circle Communities free?
Circle Communities is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is That Glasgow Witch free?
That Glasgow Witch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Circle Communities or That Glasgow Witch?
That Glasgow Witch is rated higher. Circle Communities averages 4.9 out of 5 from 87K ratings, while That Glasgow Witch averages 5.0 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Circle Communities or That Glasgow Witch have ads?
Neither Circle Communities nor That Glasgow Witch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Circle Communities or That Glasgow Witch?
Circle Communities ships an update fortnightly, and That Glasgow Witch every 6 weeks. Most recently, Circle Communities was updated on October 30, 2026 and That Glasgow Witch on October 28, 2026.

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