Kindred Home Swapping vs MyPlace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kindred Home Swapping
This members-only platform facilitates home exchanges, allowing renters and owners to travel by swapping homes with a trusted community. Earn credits by hosting and use them to book stays, with concierge services handling logistics like cleaning and supplies.
- Members-only home exchange
- Travel with trusted community
- Earn credits by hosting
- Concierge services for logistics
- Access homes in North America and Europe
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Kindred is a members-only home swapping network that harnesses the power of a trusted community to unlock a lifestyle rich with travel and human connection. By exchanging homes and apartments with peers, both renters and owners alike can access the opportunity to travel between homes across North America and Europe. HOW IT WORKS Using Kindred is simple: you give a night to get a night. Members can swap homes 1-for-1, or book stays with credits earned by hosting others. For each night you host a member, you receive a credit to book a stay of your own at any Kindred home. Once booked, your Kindred concierge takes care of all of logistics to make hosting and staying a breeze - from professional cleaning, to providing access to our members-only hosting essentials marketplace - so you can focus on enjoying your trip. HOW TO JOIN We are accepting applications at https://livekindred.com. FEEDBACK We’d love your feedback as we build this product and community! Please reach out to hello@livekindred.com with any questions or feedback.
MyPlace
Connect with people you know and their trusted networks for safer home-sharing experiences. Build private, connected communities based on real-life relationships.
- Build individual networks
- Uses phone contacts for connections
- Safe and private home-sharing
- Connects friends and friends-of-friends
- Curated group creation
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You already share homes in groups on chat, on social, and real life. MyPlace makes that natural behavior smarter - designed uniquely for home-sharing with the widest, safest distribution possible. Our app builds individual networks by using your phone contacts to identify who you know - your contacts, your friends, and their friends. Why use MyPlace? Because staying with someone you have a real link to feels better, safer, and more natural than rolling the dice on strangers. MyPlace is for friends, friends-of-friends, and curated groups. Always private. Always connected. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kindred Home Swapping at none against MyPlace's 1. Kindred Home Swapping also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 25). MyPlace's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 61%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. MyPlace sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $95.99 per year. Kindred Home Swapping asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Kindred Home Swapping against 4.8 for MyPlace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kindred Home Swapping has 1.7K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Kindred Home Swapping's written reviews are positive against 85% of MyPlace's.
Kindred Home Swapping ships an update weekly, MyPlace every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kindred Home Swapping | MyPlace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.7K ratings) — better | 4.8 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kindred Concepts Inc | MyPlace Inc |
Customer experience
Kindred Home Swapping
MyPlace
Bugs and requests
Kindred Home Swapping
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues and account verification problems
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Inaccurate availability and booking information
Requested features
6 requests- Improved search and filtering options
- More transparent host rating system
- Flexible date changes and cancellations
- Better in-app messaging and communication
- Streamlined onboarding and profile management
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- Enhanced app stability and performance
MyPlace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kindred Home Swapping
No in-app purchases
MyPlace
- MyPlace Subscription$95.991 Year
