Nearly vs Rubicone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nearly
Connect with people in your immediate vicinity through group chats organized by location. Discover and join conversations happening around you to foster local community engagement.
- Create group threads for specific locations
- Chat with people nearby
- Discover local conversations
- Foster community engagement
- Real-time location-based chat
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Create group threads for places and chat with people nearby
Rubicone
Connect with others through secure and private communication. Share your thoughts and feelings in personal columns, and interact with content through comments and direct messages. Build your audience and foster new connections.
- Secure communication
- Confidential information sharing
- Member registration
- Personal columns
- Content interaction
- Direct messaging
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Rubicone is a social software that provides users with secure and confidential communication and information dissemination services. Membership Users can register as a member to get followers, favorites, private messages and other functions. Columns Users can open their own column, and publish column stories, share their feelings and attract fans. Interaction Users can leave comments to the column, contact with the author of the column, make friends or establish business cooperation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nearly at none against Rubicone's 16. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Rubicone sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Nearly asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Nearly against 5.0 for Rubicone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Nearly ships an update weekly, Rubicone every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nearly | Rubicone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harry Moy | HEXELK LLC |
Customer experience
Nearly
Rubicone
In-app purchases
Nearly
No in-app purchases
Rubicone
- 專欄時長2 variants$1.00
- 專欄時長2 variants$2.00
- 參與宣傳$10.00
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