The Chisel vs Praxima
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Chisel
Easily book and pay for haircuts and shaves with just a few taps. Check real-time availability and reserve your preferred time slot. Securely pay for services and tip using your card on file, eliminating the need for cash.
- Book haircuts and shaves
- Check real-time availability
- Reserve time slots
- Secure card payments
- Digital tipping
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Our app lets you: - book and pay for a haircut or shave in a few taps. - Check availability and reserve a time slot that fits your schedule. - Use your card on file to quickly and securely pay for your service and tip so you never need cash on hand.
Praxima
Discover and plan visits to art exhibitions in New York City. Create custom gallery walks, save your favorite pieces with notes and photos, and organize your art experiences.
- Browse NYC gallery exhibitions
- Filter by neighborhood and venue
- Interactive map view
- Build and share gallery walks
- Photograph artworks and scan wall text
- Write and save notes
- Organize entries into collections
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Praxima is a companion for looking at art in New York City. Know what is worth your time. Browse what is on view across Chelsea, the Lower East Side, Tribeca, SoHo, and beyond — what just opened, what closes this week, what people are going to see. Plan a walk between shows with travel times that make an afternoon feel possible. Praxima keeps up with you while you are out. Arrive at a gallery and it offers to check you in; pass near a show you saved and it can tell you. Rate what you saw while it is still fresh, and keep a running record of every show you have been to. See through other people's eyes. Follow the members and venues whose looking you trust, and share your own when you want to. What stays private stays private. What you can do: — Browse exhibitions across New York City galleries and museums — Find shows on an interactive map, filtered by neighborhood or style — Build and share gallery walk itineraries — Check in as you arrive, rate what you saw, and keep the record — Follow members and venues whose looking you trust — Read what others wrote about the same exhibition — Photograph artworks, scan wall text, and keep your own notes Praxima is made in New York by people who look at art.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Praxima at weekly against The Chisel's every 6 weeks. The Chisel's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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 The Chisel against 5.0 for Praxima. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively.
The Chisel ships an update every 6 weeks, Praxima weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Chisel | Praxima |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Corio LLC | Praxima, Inc. |
In-app purchases
The Chisel
No in-app purchases
Praxima
No in-app purchases









