Skopic vs Sway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skopic
Connect with your local community through shared information and real-time collaboration. This app facilitates knowledge sharing within groups like schools, neighborhoods, and interest communities, fostering meaningful connections beyond personal updates.
- Community-driven connections
- Real-time communication
- Collaboration tools
- Knowledge sharing
- Local group focus
- Interest-based communities
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Skopic is a community-driven social app designed to help people connect through useful information, not just personal posts. It enables real-time communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing within local groups like schools, neighborhoods, colleges, interest communities.
Sway
Organize with others to influence real-world policy changes. Join or create groups focused on specific topics and receive a voter guide during elections based on your group affiliations. Larger groups gain more influence with elected officials.
- Organize for policy change
- Join topic-based groups
- Start your own groups
- Receive voter guides
- Increase group influence
- Connect with elected officials
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Sway is a platform that helps anyone organize to become influential over real-world policy changes. You can join groups on different topics, or start your own. At election time, you'll get a voter guide from the groups you're in. The larger a group, the more influence it will have with elected officials who want their votes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skopic at 5.0 against Sway's 4.3. Sway's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Skopic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sway has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Skopic ships an update every 6 months, Sway every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skopic | Sway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #208 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Skopic, Inc. | Sway Networks |
Customer experience
Skopic
Sway
In-app purchases
Skopic
No in-app purchases
Sway
No in-app purchases
