MySurrey vs Hey.Café
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MySurrey
This app serves as a central hub for city services, consolidating existing tools and introducing new features for residents. It provides access to job and event listings, local amenities, and news updates, making it easier to engage with the community.
- Job, Event, and News listings
- Youth-friendly amenity finder
- Location of local facilities
- Add events to calendar
- Share city news and events
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This app is a one-stop-shop for Surrey residents that will include existing mobile apps from the City like Rethink Waste and Surrey Request, as well as introduce new services. This app is the first of its kind for municipalities in BC. Features include: •Job, Event and News listings •Youth-friendly listings of the closest skate parks, youth centres, pools and arenas •Location of the closest libraries, off-lease dog parks, tennis courts, water parks, arenas with information including hours of operation and features available at that location •Ability to easily add city events to their smartphone calendar and share city events and news stories over email or social media.
Hey.Café
This social network allows users to create and join interest-based communities called cafés. It prioritizes user safety, data privacy, and a spam-free experience with no advertisements.
- Create and join interest-based communities (cafés)
- No advertisements
- User data privacy prioritized
- Safe space with rules against spam and hate speech
- Easy to use interface
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Hey.Café is a new social network designed to be easy to use. When you join you can create new conversations and join communities that we call cafés based on your interests, and it's free to use. - Communities Relax and join local groups that we call cafés. We have groups for developers, photographers and just about everything else. Maybe even you will create a new café to share content with others who share the same interests. - No ads We want everyone to feel safe and in control of your data, and that is why everything has been built from the ground up. The service contains no ads at all. Your data is your data and we don't want it, and we don't sell it. - Social networking for everyone Hey.Café is a safe space with rules against spam, abuse, and hate against race or sexual identity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hey.Café at 75% against MySurrey's 31%. Hey.Café also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Hey.Café holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of MySurrey's written reviews are positive against 75% of Hey.Café's.
| Parameter | MySurrey | Hey.Café |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | City of Surrey - British Columbia | Anthony Rossbach |
Customer experience
MySurrey
Hey.Café
In-app purchases
MySurrey
No in-app purchases
Hey.Café
No in-app purchases
