Upstate Curious vs Rec League
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Upstate Curious
Discover local gems and connect with your community in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. Find recommended restaurants, shops, and services, or ask for local advice. Meet new people and share your experiences in this vibrant region.
- Local discovery feed
- Crowdsourced Q&A
- Community profiles
- Direct messaging
- Interest-based connections
- Local groups
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We love the Hudson Valley + Catskills region! We love exploring every nook and cranny of the mountains and forests and farms and towns - and all the incredible restaurants and shops and art galleries and other places to visit. As residents, we also love (and need!) to know where to find a great dentist, electrician, therapist, or upholsterer, dog groomer, or babysitter depending on the day! And since one of the best parts about living in or visiting this special area are the people, we think that new ways to meet up online and (eventually!) IRL is also a pretty great idea. “Upstate Chat” is the main feed where you can share your finds or the view from your backyard (including videos and photos). By using hashtags like #restaurants, #outdoors, #townname, #county, etc., we can make things easy to find - and the section for “Popular Hashtags” will be just that. “Hotline” is where you go to ask a question you need to crowdsource - from a roofer who turns up on time to the best pizza in Ulster County to an easy hike with dogs. You can add searchable interests and a bio to your profile to connect more easily with other members - there’s a DM feature right in the app, but you can share all your social profiles as well. Upstate Curious was created for residents, visitors, weekenders, and fans - and we cover Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Greene, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, and neighboring countries. The more the merrier! The Upstate Curious Team members will be posting their finds and tips for #upstateliving - and there are special groups for buyers and sellers to get their own burning questions answered!” This app was created by the Upstate Curious Team of Keller Williams Realty Hudson Valley North.
Rec League
Discover and share recommendations for anything, from products to places. Organize your favorite finds into curated collections and follow users with similar tastes. Monetize your expertise through paid memberships.
- Recommend anything
- Organize into collections
- Follow users
- Earn money via memberships
- Share favorite things
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Rec League is where real people exchange real recommendations. How it works: - Recommend anything - from ski boots to playlists to where to eat in Rome. - Organize your recommendations into collections. - Follow people whose taste you admire. - Earn money through paid memberships.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rec League at weekly against Upstate Curious's every 6 months. Rec League also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (491 vs 144). Upstate Curious's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Upstate Curious against 4.9 for Rec League. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 491 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Upstate Curious's written reviews are positive against 94% of Rec League's.
Upstate Curious ships an update every 6 months, Rec League weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Upstate Curious | Rec League |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (144 ratings) | 4.9 (491 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 144 | 491 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Brenn-White Group LLC | Lyric Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Upstate Curious
Rec League
In-app purchases
Upstate Curious
No in-app purchases
Rec League
No in-app purchases









