Creative Preview vs Streams
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Preview
Test mobile ads directly on your smartphone or tablet before they go live. Scan QR codes or enter creative URLs to preview display and video ads. Review reporting metrics within the app's console.
- Preview display and video creatives
- Test ads on smartphone or tablet
- Scan QR codes for preview
- Manually add creative URLs
- Review reporting metrics
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Make sure you know how consumers will experience your ad when it goes live. Creative Preview helps you test mobile ads directly on a smartphone or tablet. Scan a QR code from a Google Marketing Platform product to preview an ad on your device, or manually add a creative URL. Test on your device using the supported mobile ad SDKs or in any mobile browser, and review reporting metrics in the app's console. Use Creative Preview to: * Preview and test display and video creatives directly on your mobile device. Supported mobile ad SDKs: * Google Mobile Ads * Interactive Media Ads (IMA) Permissions Notice: * Camera: Needed to scan QR codes. * Microphone: Needed to preview creatives using mobile ads SDKs that support audio recording. * Storage: Needed to attach photos, videos, and local files for submitting app feedback. It's also needed to save your preview list and app settings.
Streams
This app consolidates team communication, decisions, and follow-ups into a single organized space. It streamlines discussions, preventing ideas and details from getting lost. Features include focused groups, ad-hoc discussions, threaded conversations, and task management.
- Focused team groups
- Ad-hoc discussion groups
- Threaded conversations
- Private comments
- Tasks, Notes, Events, Messages
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Work moves quickly. Your team should too. Streams brings conversations, decisions, and follow-ups together in one organized space. Now your ideas won’t get lost, details won’t get buried, and people won’t get left out. Instead of juggling scattered chats, long email threads, and endless tools, Streams gives your team a single hub where discussions stay structured, context stays intact, and everyone stays in sync. With Streams, you can: - Rally your team in focused, purpose-built groups. - Kick off discussions instantly with ad-hoc groups. - Keep chats sharp with tidy, thread-first conversations (plus private comments). - Loop in the right people across your organization. - Drive action with Tasks, Notes, Events, Messages, and more all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Streams at none against Creative Preview's shown. Streams also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Creative Preview's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (40% vs 17%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Creative Preview holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Creative Preview's written reviews are positive against 17% of Streams's.
Creative Preview ships an update every 4 months, Streams every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 27, 2026 and June 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Preview | Streams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (24 ratings) — better | 3.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zoho Corporation | |
Customer experience
Creative Preview
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In-app purchases
Creative Preview
No in-app purchases
Streams
No in-app purchases
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