Prosaurus vs barrio.social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prosaurus
This social networking app focuses on respecting user attention by offering project planning, job insights, and creative tools without ads. It provides specialized features for software development, music, art, and writing, with a user-funded model.
- Multi-channel configurable chat
- News and Weather Widgets
- Blog creation and reading
- Creative project tools (lyrics, art, writing)
- Project management boards
- Company portals and job board
- Extensive profile with job history
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Most social networks are designed to capture your attention. This one is designed to respect it. Prosaurus combines the best of todays top social networking applications with the ability to chat directly with your friends, plan your projects, even get insights about new job opportunities all without having to deal with robot generated AI garbage and no ads ever. With specialized tools you will be able to work on software development projects, music projects, art projects, or writing. Just about anything you can think of we either have a tool for it, or we will be making one soon. Got a great idea? just send us a message in our help desk section and we'll get to adding it as soon as we can. But how do we do it without ads? it's simple, you pay for it. just a small fee. We don't have a giant company to keep employed because we just started. Also, we refuse to take money from venture capitalists who would likely pressure us to add stuff we don't want. Unlike other companies, we charge you only what is absolutely necessary to get only the tools you actually need. Sign up now for free to get a taste of what we have to offer and then decide if you would like to have more. There is no obligation. pay for a month, try it out, if you don't like it, stop paying it's that simple. Features: A) Multi-channel configurable chat with many rooms on one page B) News Widget C) Weather Widget D) Date/Time Widget E) Blog Features (read other peoples blogs or create your own) F) Tool Shed 1) Lyric Lab - a place for musicians and songwriters to share ideas 2) Art Gallery - Store and display your art collection 3) Project Management / Kanban boards - Track your projects with others G) Company portal also lets you create groups for your company and manage projects in them. 1) Job board - Promote open positions at your company or get hired by someone else H) Profile page 1) Profile page has extensive job history and skills section to promote your abilities to others I) Friends - Connect to and find new friends, collaborate, get stuff done! Terms of Use: https://www.prosaurus.com/terms
barrio.social
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barrio.social is a private social network for your real neighbourhood. Not followers. Not an algorithm. Just the people around you — the ones you actually know, or want to know. Your barrio is a living map of your network. See who knows who. Discover friends of friends. Every connection has a story. Events are how the barrio moves. Create one, invite who you trust, let it travel through the network. Your neighbours find out because someone they know is going — not because of an ad. Invite-only. No strangers. No noise.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: barrio.social at none against Prosaurus's 1. barrio.social also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Prosaurus sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. barrio.social asks for nothing beyond the download.
Prosaurus ships an update every 2 weeks, barrio.social every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prosaurus | barrio.social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cherry Blossom Development | Wilmer David Garcia Quiroz |
In-app purchases
Prosaurus
- Breakroom Premium$3.991 Month
barrio.social
No in-app purchases









