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Head-to-head

TownSq Community vs Modern Community

TownSq Community 4.7★ · Free to download 40
Winner Tie
Modern Community 4.8★ · Free + IAP 45

TownSq Community is a dedicated HOA management app with significant usability issues, while Modern Community is a match-3 puzzle game with misleading advertising and difficulty spikes.

Full reviews: TownSq Community · Modern Community

TownSq Community, an HOA management app, struggles with basic functionality, design, and support, leading to user frustration. Modern Community, a match-3 puzzle game, is praised for its story and lack of ads but heavily criticized for misleading advertising and excessively difficult levels that push in-app purchases.

Head to head

Features & Functionality tieR1R4R9R10
TownSq Community TownSq Community aims to provide HOA management features like payments, requests, news, and document access, but users report numerous issues. Core functions like making payments, sending messages, and changing privacy settings often fail R1R4R9R10. Users also desire features like online form submission, better document organization, a calendar view for events, and the ability to edit or delete posts and attachments .
Modern Community Modern Community offers a match-3 puzzle game with a storyline, decoration options, and side challenges . Players appreciate the interactive story and decorating choices . However, many users feel the game is not as advertised, expecting cleaning or simulation games instead of match-3 puzzles R63R64R79R88. Some features like same-sex romance are advertised but not present R64.
Ease of Use & Design edge: Modern CommunityR1R2R3R6
TownSq Community TownSq Community is frequently described as poorly designed, unorganized, clunky, and not intuitive R19R22. Users struggle with setup, navigation, especially switching between multiple communities R1R3, and reading text due to small fonts and dark mode compatibility issues R21R27. The app often looks like a cell phone screen on an iPad, lacking proper formatting R2R6R21.
Modern Community Modern Community has a visually appealing design and engaging storyline . However, the core match-3 gameplay is often criticized for being too difficult, with levels requiring too few moves, leading to frustration . Some users find the game repetitive, especially with old levels and storylines .
Reliability & Performance edge: Modern CommunityR1R8R9R10
TownSq Community TownSq Community users report frequent bugs and glitches, including the app freezing during setup, payments not processing, messages crashing the app, documents disappearing, and push notifications failing to lead to content R1R8R9R10. The app is described as 'sketchy' and 'buggy' R8.
Modern Community Modern Community generally performs well, with users appreciating the lack of ads . However, some users experience issues with the game not opening or quitting unexpectedly . There are also concerns about the game's algorithm potentially cheating or being designed to force purchases .
Price & Value edge: TownSq CommunityR1R19R22R36
TownSq Community TownSq Community is free to download, and while it offers essential HOA functions, its numerous bugs and usability issues diminish its value R1R19R22. Users are often forced to use it by their HOA, not by choice, highlighting a lack of perceived value R36.
Modern Community Modern Community is free to download but heavily relies on in-app purchases (IAP) due to its high difficulty . Users feel forced to buy coins and boosters to progress, with some spending significant amounts . There are also complaints about misleading IAP pricing, with users being charged more than expected .
Customer Support tieR5R8R25R27
TownSq Community TownSq Community receives mixed reviews regarding support. Some users praise specific individuals for clear and polite assistance R5. However, many report poor or unresponsive support, difficulty contacting anyone, and a lack of means to provide feedback within the app R8R25R27. The developer's release notes are also criticized for being uninformative .
Modern Community Modern Community has some positive mentions of amazing customer support . However, at least one user reported contacting support for help with an impossible level and receiving no assistance .
Pick TownSq Community if

You are required to use TownSq Community by your HOA and need a direct channel for community communication and payments, acknowledging that you might encounter significant technical issues and a clunky user experience R3R36.

Pick Modern Community if

You enjoy match-3 puzzle games with a strong storyline and decoration elements, and you are either willing to tolerate high difficulty levels or make in-app purchases to progress .

Evidence note: The reviews for Modern Community are overwhelmingly about it being a game, specifically a match-3 puzzle game, despite its name suggesting a community management app. This creates an asymmetry in comparison, as TownSq Community is indeed an HOA/community management platform. The comparison focuses on the user experience within their respective intended purposes.

Frequently asked

Is Modern Community a community management app or a game?
Modern Community is primarily a match-3 puzzle game with a storyline and decoration elements, despite its name and some misleading advertisements R63R79R88R118.
Why do users criticize Modern Community's ads?
Users criticize Modern Community's ads for being misleading, often depicting a cleaning, simulation, or dating game with queer-coded elements that are not present in the actual match-3 puzzle gameplay R61R63R64R65.
Does TownSq Community work well on iPads?
No, TownSq Community is not formatted for iPad, appearing like a cell phone screen and making it difficult to read content like HOA newsletters R2R6R21.
Are payments reliable on TownSq Community?
Many users report issues with payments on TownSq Community, including autopay not working, payments failing to process, the app returning to the home screen, or even processing payments multiple times R10R13R17R41.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R1] TownSq Community 1/5 · US Set Up Issues: I have the app downloaded, selected sign up, received and confirmed email. Confirm my info and enter and confirm password, then it just spins, nothing happens. Can't even get into app.
  2. [R4] TownSq Community 2/5 · US Unable to save privacy settings: My address continues to display even when I don’t have the option checked. I try to make other changes to privacy settings and there’s no option to actually save the changes, so they’re discarded.
  3. [R9] TownSq Community 3/5 · US Messaging doesn’t work: Have tried multiple times to get messages to work and it doesn’t. It works for other residents but not for us
  4. [R10] TownSq Community 1/5 · US Autopay not working: Auto pay option on IOS App is not working even with the latest update.
  5. [R2] TownSq Community 4/5 · US Question: Why can’t this app become full screen on iPad
  6. [R3] TownSq Community 3/5 · US Needs work: I’m glad my HOAs master and condos offer an app to have easy payments and request, but viewing news and event notifications across 2 communities is clunky for sure. The switch community is also not great, hidden deep in the app.
  7. [R6] TownSq Community 3/5 · US It be nice if this app was formatted for ipad!: Att: IT Dept. or App Developer, Can the Town Square App please be formatted to be IPad friendly to fit the iPad screen ? So it doesn’t look like a cell phone screen ? Sam
  8. [R8] TownSq Community 5/5 · US Disappearing Documents: Suddenly documents are disappearing from folders. Update from 1 week ago may be faulty. Here we go again, now cannot switch between communities when homeowners participate in multiple. Always sketchy, poor support.It’s not a community enhancement, rather a headache for community managers and homeowners. Too bad. The concept is good.
  9. [R19] TownSq Community 1/5 · US Horrible app: What A poorly designed app for its intended purpose of managing a condo association. Unorganized, disjointed and a jumbled mess that is so not user friendly. BAD
  10. [R22] TownSq Community 1/5 · US People must be out of their minds giving this app good ratings… I wonder if it’s all scam…: Super user-unfriendly, poorly organized, cluttered and cumbersome to use. I absolutely hate using it.
  11. [R36] TownSq Community 3/5 · US The app you have to use- not by choice: I have to use this app to pay my condo fee. It’s not super easy to use and the light green type makes it hard to read. My BIGGEST GRIPE is that it does not support account nicknames on payment sources. That would make things easier instead of just a list of partial numbers.
  12. [R5] TownSq Community 5/5 · US Town Square Updates!: Geraldo is always very clear and polite when assistance is needed to navigate the platform. Great Job!
  13. [R25] TownSq Community 1/5 · US Not helpful: The usefulness of this app is dependent upon the timely response from the property management company. Unfortunately mine isn’t so responsive.
  14. [R27] TownSq Community 3/5 · US Font too small: Font is too small and is in light colour. Making it very difficult to read the content without glasses. And app does not have feature to contact support or provide feedback. Hence writing a review. Hope someone will look into it.
  15. [R63] Modern Community 3/5 · US Not what you think: Honestly, the game on the ad showed a girl cleaning up and trying to look good, which was super interesting to me cause cleaning or sim games are fun to me but it’s completely different it’s like landscapes or something puzzles and stars which isn’t really that fun to me cause you get stuck on it and get frustrated leading to deleting the game. My overall opinion may be differe
  16. [R79] Modern Community 1/5 · US Glorified Candy Crush: Don’t let the ads fool you. It is just candy crush plus a bunch of reading.
  17. [R88] Modern Community 1/5 · US False advertising: Don’t let the add fool you it’s nothing but matching cubes each time you complete it you get one star to click and pick what you want the furniture to look like
  18. [R118] Modern Community 1/5 · US The ads lie - False advertising: Seriously don’t waste your time with this. The ads made this look almost like a Sims type game but maybe with a storyline and choices. The ad made it look interesting and exciting. But in actuality it’s just a stupid match 3 game and fixing things up with limited choices. Like Gardenscapes & others. I don’t understand why false advertising seems legal now. But anyt
  19. [R61] Modern Community 2/5 · US Ai Slop + Racist Ads: The game itself is just fine tbh, I like the concept and how involved you get to be in the townspeople’s lives, everyone has their own story. What I DONT like are these stupid, unrelated AI SLOP ads everywhere! The ads have nothing to do with the gameplay or the sweet stories in the game. They also constantly depict a Black fireman as an abusive or deadbeat dad when I’m the g
  20. [R64] Modern Community 1/5 · US not as advertised: i frequently see ads for this game that are queer code but there is no content, no way to same sex romance, no ability to change the gender of the female main character. played it a while but it’s really in-your-face hetero … and i’m tired of having no that shoved in my face after seeing queer-baiting ads.
  21. [R65] Modern Community 5/5 · US Great: Good game but false advertisement
  22. [R21] TownSq Community 3/5 · US iPad version: I like the town Square community app, but I deducted two stars for the time being since there is no iPad version. An iPad version of this app would maximize screen size as it is hard to read my HOA newsletters using the iPhone version of the app on an iPad. I will gladly give the app a higher score if an iPad version comes out.
  23. [R13] TownSq Community 1/5 · US Payments: I’m trying to make a payment and when I do it takes me back to the Home Screen. Fix this glitch please.
  24. [R17] TownSq Community 4/5 · US Having issue paying my hoa: When I click on make payment the it just loads and loads. Is there an issue at the moment ? Please help. Thanks
  25. [R41] TownSq Community 4/5 · US Has some bugs: App is good for viewing your account info but a bit wonky when trying to enter information. Lately when I try to pay my HOA dues, the app won’t bring up my keyboard so that I can enter my account number. I have to go my computer and use the HOA website.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store