Comparison

Swimplace vs GM10

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

Head to head
About

Swimplace

Discover and create real-world communities around places you love. Engage with groups for shared activities, plan events, and connect with friends in organized spaces. Focuses on meaningful interactions without likes.

Highlights
  • Create and join place-based communities (Pools)
  • Discover local activities with 'Around Me' mode
  • Organize conversations with 'Spaces' (channels)
  • Share media and tag comments
  • Private, invite-only, and public Pool options
  • Friend system based on mutual following
Features
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People open Swim to explore and engage with life around them. Swim is a fun platform where you create and access communities around places. You see what’s going on around you by simply opening the app. You engage with groups (we call them Pools) of people who do fun, interesting things together in the real world. You create your own communities at the places you love and give access to the people you like. Use the Around Me mode to discover what’s going on around you in the real world, and engage with others at your own pace through Public Pools in places as diverse as streets, cafes, clubs, and university campuses. There are also Pools designated as By Invite, which you can see and ask for access. These Pools are usually created by people engaged in neighborhood sports leagues, book clubs, or hiking groups. Create your own Private Pools to hang out with your friends, chat, share media, or plan your weekend with no algorithm deciding what you see and when you see it. You can create a Pool in less than a minute, geo-tag it and designated it as Public (for everybody to see and access), By Invite (visible but accessible only to members) or Private (invisible to all except the people you invite). Designate Spaces in your Pool (like channels) so that you and your friends can have different conversations, neatly organized, rather than one infinite thread where everything is chaotic. You can share media and open conversations around it by tagging comments, so that your chats and your media are easy to follow and find. Use your Pools as the new visual and organized way to chat and stay in touch with people you care about, and the places you love. Swim is designed with no 'likes' to promote more meaningful interactions. People become your 'Friends' in Swim when you follow them and they follow you back, reciprocity just like in real life.

About

GM10

Connect with fellow trading card enthusiasts on a dedicated social platform. Discover news, engage with the community, buy, sell, and even run your own brand shop. Find local shows to bridge the generation gap in collecting.

Highlights
  • Community engagement and news
  • Find local trading card shows
  • User profiles with transaction history
  • Online buying and selling
  • In-app randomizer for breaks
  • Brand shops for selling merchandise
Features
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GM10 is the social platform for everything trading cards. We’re collectors who have built a collector-focused application that connects the trading cared hobby by bringing the best of everything into one platform. These collector-focused tools include: - We’re community first, our goal is to showcase the best parts of the hobby by being the primary place for members of the community to engage with one another, learn more about the hobby with breaking news and interact with the community by posting about it. - The generation gap in trading is real, with our fun and nostalgic design, we’re looking to engage those young and old from wherever you call home in one place, you can even find out where the nearest upcoming show is going down so you can better bridge that divide. - Being community-first always, everyone on GM10 has a profile that they can create to help put a face/avatar to the name. We hope both parties on a deal can learn about each other’s interests, where they call home, their collection and even their previous transactions. - Say so-long to only having two options on an online marketplace, you can buy and sell your cards online with just a few clicks. - Come break with us, we’ve developed an in-application randomizer that takes the pain away from your breaks. - GM10 unlocks the next level of collecting by enabling you to make collectibles your business. With a sleek marketplace that is designed with the collector in mind we hope you’ll have a very profitable experience on the app for years to come - We’ve dedicated a significant amount of our development to building out Brand Shops, you can establish your own shop where you and your friends/business partners can collaborate to sell your own branded merchandise or products to the broader market. We hope you will join us and help build the community as we all look to slab it, stream it, sell it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Swimplace4 screens
GM104 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swimplace at none against GM10's 8. Swimplace also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). GM10's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 6). On price and update cadence 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. GM10 sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Swimplace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Swimplace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 22 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Swimplace versus GM10: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwimplaceGM10
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.7 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews—94.4% of reviews
Number of ratings622 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB138 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerswim Inc.Matthew Billman

Customer experience

Swimplace

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GM10

All ratings22 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%

In-app purchases

None

Swimplace

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

GM10

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Premium$24.991 Month
One-time6
  • BLUE$1.99
  • RED$3.99
  • PURPLE$7.99
Show 3 more
  • GOLD$9.99
  • BLACK$14.99
  • GEM$19.99

Questions

Is Swimplace free?
Swimplace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GM10 free?
GM10 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Swimplace or GM10?
Swimplace is rated higher. Swimplace averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while GM10 averages 4.7 from 22 ratings.
Do Swimplace or GM10 have ads?
GM10 shows ads; Swimplace does not.
Which is updated more often, Swimplace or GM10?
Swimplace ships an update weekly, and GM10 weekly. Most recently, Swimplace was updated on November 3, 2026 and GM10 on November 3, 2026.

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