Refactoring Community vs Patio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Refactoring Community
Connect with a global network of software engineers and managers to advance your career. Access exclusive content, live events, and expert interviews. Members also receive discounts on coaching and developer tools.
- Live community events
- 300+ original essays
- Expert interviews
- Global network of 1500+ professionals
- Discounted coaching
- Dev tool discounts
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Join a professional community of software engineers and managers to grow your network and support your career. Community members get access to: •Live community events, facilitated by professional coaches, run monthly, like masterminds and the book club •A treasure trove of 300+ original essays about engineering and management practices. •Expert interviews to some of the most thoughtful tech leaders in the world, like Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and DHH. •A network of 1500+ managers and developers from all over the world. •A selection of engineering coaches available at discounted rates for members. •Deals and discounts to the most popular dev tools, worth more than $100,000. The community is backed by the Refactoring newsletter, which goes out weekly to 140,000+ subscribers and is one of the most popular tech newsletters in the world.
Patio
This app allows users to create distinct "patios" for different aspects of their lives, enabling casual sharing of updates, photos, and thoughts with specific audiences. It offers a more focused way to connect with friends and communities around shared interests.
- Create themed 'patios' for life events
- Share text, photos, and links
- Control audience for each patio
- Follow updates from friends
- Public or private interest-based patios
- Casual, text-like sharing
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Patio is a new way to share with friends. Make patios for different parts of your life — trips, daily fits, close friends, gym updates, baby pics, local recs, sports, hobbies, or anything else you want to share. A patio is like a chat with followers. Text updates, photos, links, thoughts, and moments, then let the right people follow along. Unlike sharing to one profile to everyone you've ever known, Patio gives every part of your life its own space and audience. Use Patio to: • Share more casually with friends • Create private spaces for specific people • Follow updates from the people you care about • Make public or private patios around your interests • Share as easy as texting
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Patio at every 5 days against Refactoring Community's every 4 months. Refactoring Community's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 — 5.0 for Refactoring Community against 5.0 for Patio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Refactoring Community ships an update every 4 months, Patio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Refactoring Community | Patio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Refactoring ETS | Pelican Studios, Inc. |
Customer experience
Refactoring Community
Patio
In-app purchases
Refactoring Community
No in-app purchases
Patio
No in-app purchases
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