Comparison

Swimplace vs Automatic Network

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

Automatic Network

Connect with property owners, retailers, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and designers to bring projects to life. This platform facilitates connections between capital, ideas, and talent, accelerating project development. Members also gain access to exclusive industry insights and knowledge.

Highlights
  • Connect with property owners and industry professionals
  • Facilitates capital, ideas, and talent connections
  • Builds professional relationships automatically
  • Share insider industry knowledge and insights
  • Discover and connect with key industry players
Features
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THE COOL PLACES ECOSYSTEM IN YOUR POCKET Connect with property owners and the retailers, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and designers that bring those properties to life. Automatic connects capital, ideas, and talent so wonderful projects happen faster. AUTOMATIC BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS, AUTOMATICALLY Relationships drive business growth and Automatic helps members grow relationships with the doers that make things happen. Find your people with Automatic. GROW YOUR KNOWLEDGE, GROW YOUR OPPORTUNITIES More than just connections, Automatic members share insider knowledge. Insights and information unavailable anywhere else - learn from industry icons and see the world in a different light.

Screenshots

Swimplace4 screens
Automatic Network3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Swimplace at 13.0 against Automatic Network's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. 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 — 5.0 for Swimplace against 5.0 for Automatic Network. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Swimplace versus Automatic Network: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwimplaceAutomatic Network
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB140 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developerswim Inc.Pecos Management, LLC

Customer experience

Swimplace

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

Automatic Network

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Swimplace

No in-app purchases

None

Automatic Network

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swimplace free?
Swimplace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Automatic Network free?
Automatic Network is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Swimplace or Automatic Network?
Swimplace and Automatic Network are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Swimplace or Automatic Network have ads?
Neither Swimplace nor Automatic Network shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swimplace or Automatic Network?
Swimplace ships an update weekly, and Automatic Network weekly. Most recently, Swimplace was updated on November 3, 2026 and Automatic Network on November 8, 2026.

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