Locals.com vs deskpop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
deskpop
This app serves as a daily challenge and community platform for fingerboard enthusiasts. Users can post video clips of their tricks, vote on submissions, and engage with a community of skaters. It offers a space to share content, build profiles, and stay inspired within the fingerboarding world.
- Daily fingerboard challenges
- Post and vote on trick clips
- Community feed for sharing
- Follow other skaters
- Build user profile and streaks
- View winners and top placements
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deskpop is where fingerboarding lives. one trick a day, a feed full of clips, and now a marketplace to buy, sell, and trade gear. every day there's a new challenge. film your make, post it, and the community decides who takes the top spots. the best clip gets printed on the front page. come back tomorrow and run it again. in deskpop you can: post your clip for the daily challenge vote on tricks and help pick tomorrow's challenge see who got printed and browse past top placements buy, sell, and trade decks, tuning, ramps, and gear in the marketplace dm other skaters to talk shop or lock in a trade share clips, photos, polls, and text posts in the community feed comment, reply, like, and follow other skaters build your stash — streaks, badges, and every clip you've filed whether you're learning the basics, filming bangers at your desk, or just lurking for inspiration, deskpop makes fingerboarding feel like a scene instead of a solo thing.
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Verdict
Locals.com and deskpop both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 96% of deskpop's written reviews are positive against 53% of Locals.com's. deskpop also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 weeks). Locals.com's advantage is ratings volume (42K vs 31) and chart position (#145 vs unranked). On price, rating and ads 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. deskpop asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Locals.com against 4.8 for deskpop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locals.com has 42K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Locals.com's written reviews are positive against 96% of deskpop's.
Locals.com ships an update every 4 weeks, deskpop every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Locals.com | deskpop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (42K ratings) | 4.8 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42K — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #145 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Locals Technology Inc | Adam Delaney |
Customer experience
Locals.com
deskpop
Bugs and 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
deskpop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
deskpop
No in-app purchases









