Projectpal vs Beacon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Projectpal
Connect with other young women in NYC to find roommates, discover city events, and join topic-based communities for advice and recommendations. Share insights on everything from beauty and dining to apartment hunting and local spots.
- Roommate finder
- City event discovery
- Topic-based communities
- Local recommendations
- Advice sharing
- Beauty and lifestyle tips
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Welcome to girl internet. Projectpal connects girls to the coolest people, places, and things. All in one world built for you. Discover communities around the topics you actually care about. From beauty secrets and apartment advice to your latest obsession, favorite brands, and everything currently taking over your group chat. Ask questions. Share opinions. Find recommendations. Connect with girls who get it. Explore curated guides to the best things to do, try, buy, and talk about — powered by girls with taste. Because the best discoveries have always come from other girls. We just built a place for them to live. Step into girl world.
Beacon
This app shows your friends' real-time locations on a map when they are out. It focuses on immediate presence without traditional social media feeds or posts. See who is nearby with a simple visual indicator.
- Real-time location sharing
- Map-based interface
- Friend discovery
- No feeds or posts
- Simple presence indicator
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Beacon is how you find your friends when they're already out and how they find you. No feeds. No posts. Just a flame on a map that says, I'm in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Projectpal at 16.4 against Beacon's 26.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Projectpal against 5.0 for Beacon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Projectpal ships an update fortnightly, Beacon every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Projectpal | Beacon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Project Pal, Inc. | Qwarter |
Customer experience
Projectpal
Beacon
In-app purchases
Projectpal
No in-app purchases
Beacon
No in-app purchases
