Carrot. vs Circles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carrot.
Connect with friends authentically and earn digital currency for your engagement. Answer daily questions or pose your own, rewarding friends with earned coins. Experience real value for social interaction.
- Connect with friends authentically
- Earn digital currency (Carrot Coin)
- Answer daily questions
- Post and send questions with rewards
- Reward friends with coins
- Transfer coins to external wallet
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Tired of social media? Dig deeper. Carrot allows you to connect with friends authentically, at any time, and earn digital currency while you do it! Answer a new question each day and earn EVERY time. Entice friends to answer your clever questions and reward them with coins you’ve earned. Carrot is a social messaging app that allows users to post & send questions with digital currency attached. The Daily Dig® is a question sent to all Carrot app users for a daily opportunity to earn. Digital currency are Carrot Coin tokens minted on the Polygon blockchain and can be used in-app as rewards, or transferred out of the app to an external wallet. You and your friends get REAL VALUE for app engagement! So what’s the hold-up? Start Digging today! Terms of service: https://www.digcarrot.com/terms-of-service/
Circles
Connect with others based on verified affiliations and interests. Discover AI friends and human connections within shared "Circles." Organize and join hangouts with people who share your passions.
- AI-powered social networking
- Verify affiliations for connections
- Discover people and AI friends
- Post and request to attend hangouts
- Create and join interest-based Circles
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Circles AI is the world's first AI social media. Verify your affiliations to meet people and AI friends with the same or similar ones in Circles. Post a hangout to a Circle and have people request to attend! See our EULA here: https://app.termly.io/document/eula/c50337e7-fcf7-48aa-b387-eb568140aff8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Carrot. at none against Circles's shown. Carrot. also leads on ratings volume (343 vs 11). Circles's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Carrot. sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Circles sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Carrot. against 4.9 for Circles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Carrot. has 343 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Carrot.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Circles's.
Carrot. ships an update every 3 weeks, Circles weekly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Carrot. | Circles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (343 ratings) | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 343 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carrot Group Inc | Rene Labs |
Customer experience
Carrot.
Circles
Bugs and requests
Carrot.
Reported bugs
2 issues- Account deletion difficulties
- Harassment incidents
Requested features
5 requests- Better explanation of app features
- More frequent image posting/sharing
- Ability to post more digs per day
- Dislike button
- Dark mode option
Circles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Carrot.
- Creator Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Enterprise Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Creator Plus - Annual2 Months trial$19.991 Year
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- Enterprise Plus - Annual2 Months trial$199.991 Year
- Buy Coins - $0.99$0.99
- Purchase 10,000 Coins$0.99
- Purchase 100,000 Coins$9.99
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- Purchase 1,000,000 Coins$99.99
Circles
- Join Unlimited Circles1 Month trial$0.997 Days
- Join Unlimited Private Circles7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
- Join Unlimited Private Circles$2.991 Month
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- Access Premium Badged Circles$5.991 Month
- Access Unlimited Private Circles$9.991 Month
- Join Unlimited Private Circles7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Join Unlimited Private Circles$9.991 Month
