Locals.com vs Lyvd.
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
Lyvd.
A social network focused on curating and sharing personal tastes across various categories like food, travel, and fashion. Users can share their favorite items and follow others whose taste they trust, without algorithmic content manipulation.
- Curate and share personal tastes
- Follow trusted tastemakers
- Discover new picks
- Share content of any length
- No algorithmic content feed
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Lyvd is a taste curation social network built for people who have something to say about the way they live. Curate your world. Share what you love. Follow the people whose taste you trust. Add picks from any category — restaurants, hotels, wine, fashion, beauty, music, books, travel, wellness, and more. Write as much or as little as you want. A single line or a full essay. Your shelf, your rules. Follow people whose taste inspires you and discover picks you never would have found on your own. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just the people you follow and what they love. Lyvd is for everyone. The fashion editor in New York. The mom in Ohio who knows the best restaurants in her city. The music obsessive with impeccable taste. The traveler who always finds the hidden gem. If you have taste, you have a home here. Anyone can say they love something. Lyvd is proof.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lyvd. at 100% against Locals.com's 53%. Lyvd. also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Locals.com's advantage is ratings volume (41K vs 1) and chart position (#126 vs unranked). On price 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. Lyvd. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lyvd. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locals.com has 41K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Locals.com's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lyvd.'s.
Locals.com ships an update every 4 weeks, Lyvd. every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locals.com | Lyvd. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (41K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #126 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Locals Technology Inc | William Leslie Mathis Freeland |
Customer experience
Locals.com
Lyvd.
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
Lyvd.
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
Lyvd.
No in-app purchases
