Konstella vs Automatic Network
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Konstella
This app facilitates communication and community building for parent organizations like PTAs and PTOs. It enables the creation of announcements, newsletters, volunteer sign-ups, and event postings, while also simplifying fee collection and donations. Parents can also form interest-based social groups to connect with each other.
- Create announcements and newsletters
- Manage volunteer sign-ups
- Organize events
- Collect fees and donations
- Form interest-based social groups
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Konstella streamlines communications and helps parent organizations (i.e. PTA & PTOs) build close-knit parent communities. - By allowing committee chairs and room parents to create short announcements, long newsletters, volunteer sign-up sheets, and events, Konstella streamlines communications and makes school and classroom needs transparent to parents. - By helping parent organizations and room parents collect fees and donations, Konstella makes fundraising easy for treasurers and fundraiser volunteers. - By letting parents create interest-based Social Groups, such as Playdates for parents of young children and Hiking Parents for active parents, Konstella connects parents. This app is only useful if your school is running Konstella.
Automatic Network
Connect with property owners, retailers, and designers to bring real estate projects to life. This platform facilitates connections between capital, ideas, and talent, accelerating project development. Members also gain access to exclusive industry insights and knowledge.
- Connect property owners with retailers and designers
- Facilitates capital, ideas, and talent connections
- Builds professional relationships automatically
- Share insider industry knowledge and insights
- Discover industry icons and new perspectives
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THE COOL PLACES ECOSYSTEM IN YOUR POCKET Connect with property owners and the retailers, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and designers that bring those properties to life. Automatic connects capital, ideas, and talent so wonderful projects happen faster. AUTOMATIC BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS, AUTOMATICALLY Relationships drive business growth and Automatic helps members grow relationships with the doers that make things happen. Find your people with Automatic. GROW YOUR KNOWLEDGE, GROW YOUR OPPORTUNITIES More than just connections, Automatic members share insider knowledge. Insights and information unavailable anywhere else - learn from industry icons and see the world in a different light.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Automatic Network at 5.0 against Konstella's 4.6. Konstella's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 3) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Automatic Network holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Konstella has 1.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Konstella ships an update every 3 days, Automatic Network weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Konstella | Automatic Network |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Konstella Inc. | Pecos Management, LLC |
Customer experience
Konstella
Automatic Network
Bugs and requests
Konstella
Reported bugs
6 issues- Can't delete an odd committee thread even after leaving the group
- No longer spell check and the bullets/numbers don't work
- Scrolling issues, can't select and copy text, can't bookmark or set aside important messages, can't open links from messages, impossible to organize messages and events
- Impossible to update my kids school, no way to contact Konstella, no way to remove the old profile and add a new one
- Group chat function issues - messages not loading, group disappearing and reappearing
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- App contains features not available via the website; the website contains features not available on the app
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Messages need Like buttons
- Mute button to selectively mute members
- Ability to have dates hyperlinked to iPhone calendar
Automatic Network
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Konstella
No in-app purchases
Automatic Network
No in-app purchases
