So.crew vs real
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
So.crew
Connect with verified airline crew members worldwide. Discover local recommendations, chat with friends, and see who's nearby during layovers. Temporary group chats are automatically deleted after your stay.
- Discover local tips and tours
- Chat with verified crew friends
- Crew Radar to see nearby users
- Temporary city-based group chats
- Connect with fellow airline crew
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SoCrew – For Airline Crew, By Airline Crew SoCrew is the ultimate social app for verified airline crew. Connect, explore, and make the most of every layover. Key Features: • Discover local tips & crew-recommended tours • Add and chat with verified crew friends • Crew Radar: see who’s nearby within 25km • Temporary city-based group chats – auto-delete after layovers Your crew, Your layovers, Your stories
real
This social network encourages real-life interactions by connecting you with nearby friends for spontaneous or planned activities. It prioritizes genuine human connections over algorithmic feeds, keeping your location private.
- Connect with available friends nearby
- Schedule activities with friends
- Announce community events
- Discover nearby old friends
- Privacy-focused location sharing
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real leverages technology to help us disconnect from screens and have more human-to-human interactions. It's a healthier social network: has real people, with real relationships, doing real-life activities. It effectively eliminates uncertainties associated with such activities: not knowing who is nearby, who is available, and who should initiate interactions. real overcomes these challenges while keeping one's whereabouts hidden from everyone else. Uniquely, it is not driven by any algorithms but is based on our real-life behavior. Main Features: - up for: make yourself available and get connected to your available friends in the area - let's hang: schedule specific activity with your friends and they get invited if nearby - community bulletin: let everyone in your community know of an event (e.g., a yard sale) - missed connections: real will let you know if an old friend happens to be close by
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Verdict
So.crew and real are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 — 5.0 for So.crew against 5.0 for real. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
So.crew ships an update every 4 weeks, real monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | So.crew | real |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Plan Better | Sandalwood Research LLC |
Customer experience
So.crew
real
In-app purchases
So.crew
No in-app purchases
real
No in-app purchases
