Parse.ly vs OONI Probe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parse.ly
Gain immediate insights into your website's audience and content performance. Track trending posts, view real-time metrics, and analyze specific authors or sections on the go. Understand what resonates with your readers and how they discover your content.
- Real-time audience insights
- Top trending posts
- Key metrics and graphs
- Author and section filtering
- Sort posts by various metrics
- Real-time traffic stats
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Parsely provides clear audience insights about what’s being read on your website, right now. The app provides on-the-go access to your real-time Parsely dashboard so you’re not missing anything your audience is telling you. The app allows you to: - See top trending posts for your site or your entire network of sites - View today’s graphs and key metrics in real-time - Focus on specific authors, sections, or tags from your site - Sort top posts by metric: visitors, page views, social shares, social referrals, search referrals, and engaged time if activated for your account. - Follow any post’s performance with real-time traffic stats and referral sources. - Run Parsely analytics side-by-side with your site using multitasking on the iPad. The Parsely iOS App requires a Parsely account.
OONI Probe
This app helps you detect internet censorship and surveillance systems by examining website and app blocking. It also measures your network's speed and performance, providing data that can serve as evidence of interference. All collected data is published openly to promote transparency.
- Examine website and app blocking
- Measure network speed and performance
- Detect censorship and surveillance systems
- Collect evidence of internet censorship
- Publish open network measurement data
- Free and open source software
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Are websites and social media apps blocked? Is your network unusually slow? Run OONI Probe to find out! With this app, you will examine the blocking of websites and instant messaging apps, measure your network's speed and performance, and check whether systems that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance are in your network. OONI Probe is developed by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software project (under The Tor Project) that aims to uncover internet censorship around the world. Since 2012, OONI’s global community has collected millions of network measurements from more than 200 countries, shedding light on multiple cases of network interference. ▶ Collect evidence of internet censorship You can check whether and how websites and instant messaging apps are blocked. The network measurement data you will collect may serve as evidence of internet censorship. ▶ Detect systems responsible for censorship and surveillance OONI Probe tests are also designed to uncover the presence of systems (middleboxes) that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance. ▶ Measure the speed and performance of your network You can measure the speed and performance of your network by running OONI's implementation of the Network Diagnostic Test (NDT). You can also measure video streaming performance with the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) test. ▶ Open data OONI publishes network measurement data because open data allows third parties to verify OONI findings, conduct independent studies, and answer other research questions. Openly publishing OONI data also helps increase transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can explore and download OONI data here: https://ooni.io/data/ ▶ Free software All OONI Probe tests (including our NDT and DASH implementations), are based on free and open source software. You can find OONI software projects on GitHub: https://github.com/ooni. Curious to learn how OONI Probe tests work? Learn more: https://ooni.io/nettest/ To receive updates from the OONI-verse, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OONI Probe at 4.5 against Parse.ly's 3.9. OONI Probe also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Parse.ly's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
OONI Probe holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OONI Probe has 84 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Parse.ly's written reviews are positive against 58% of OONI Probe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Parse.ly ships an update every 4 months, OONI Probe every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parse.ly | OONI Probe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 58.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Automattic | The Tor Project |
Customer experience
Parse.ly
OONI Probe
In-app purchases
Parse.ly
No in-app purchases
OONI Probe
No in-app purchases









