Outerly vs COMMONS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Outerly
Discover curated walking groups for social outings in your city. Answer personality questions to get matched with strangers for planned routes and secret endpoint meetups. Currently available in select East Coast cities.
- Curated group matching
- Planned walking routes
- Secret endpoint meetups
- Personality-based matching
- City-specific outings
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Find your people, one walk at a time. Outerly matches you into a small, curated group of strangers for a fully planned walking outing in your city. You answer some personality questions and book your outing, and we'll do the rest. You'll get a starting point where you meet your group, a snapshot of each participant you've been matched with, a locally-made walking route, and an endpoint at a secret location where all of the small groups that day meet up together. Currently live in DC, Baltimore, and Philly, with new locations added regularly!
COMMONS
This app helps you organize and discover real-world plans and events happening near you. Quickly create gatherings, see who's interested or committed, and manage event details in dedicated chats. Find or create groups for recurring activities and connect with people who share your interests.
- Create plans in seconds
- RSVP with 'In' or 'Interested'
- Dedicated chat for each plan
- Browse daily plans
- Join interest-based groups
- Set plan visibility (open/closed)
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COMMONS is where real plans with real people are happening now. Not a feed of what everyone did last weekend. A list of what's actually happening this week, near you, that you can join with one tap. MAKE A PLAN IN SECONDS Pick a time, drop a place, add a line about the vibe. That's it. No invite spreadsheet, no reply-all thread, no waiting three days for six people to answer. IN OR INTERESTED Not every plan deserves a commitment. Tap "You're in" when you're sure, or "Interested" when you're curious. Everyone can see where things stand, so plans either come together or quietly don't. EVERY PLAN HAS A CHAT Details live where they belong. Each plan gets its own group chat for the running-late texts, the who's-bringing-what, and the last-minute change of venue. YOUR WEEK, ONE DAY AT A TIME Scroll the days ahead and see what's open. Filter down to just your plans, or browse everything happening around you. FIND YOUR PEOPLE Join groups built around things you already do — the Saturday long run, the Tuesday climbing session, the book club that meets when it meets. Recurring plans stay with the group instead of getting buried in a thread. OPEN OR CLOSE-KNIT Some plans are just for your people. Others are open to anyone who wants to show up. You choose who sees each one. Commons is for the morning run, the pickup game, the last-minute dinner, the show nobody wanted to go to alone. Make the plan. See who's in.
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Verdict
Outerly and COMMONS are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 — 4.9 for Outerly against 5.0 for COMMONS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Outerly ships an update every 2 days, COMMONS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Outerly | COMMONS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Urban Outdoors | On Commons LLC |
Customer experience
Outerly
COMMONS
In-app purchases
Outerly
No in-app purchases
COMMONS
No in-app purchases







