The Quint vs Let's Mike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Quint
This news platform delivers award-winning journalism with a focus on in-depth investigations, fact-checking, and multimedia storytelling. It covers underreported issues and social justice topics, supported by a reader-powered membership model for independent reporting.
- Award-winning journalism
- In-depth investigations
- Fact-checking unit (WebQoof)
- Multimedia storytelling (documentaries, explainers)
- Exclusive shows and podcasts
- Reader-powered membership model
- Coverage of underreported issues
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The Quint is a leading Indian digital news platform renowned for its high-quality, award-winning journalism that prioritizes depth, integrity, and impact. Its journalists have secured prestigious accolades, including multiple Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, RedInk Awards, WAN-IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards, INMA Global Media Awards 2025, and recognitions in Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism Awards 2025. This reflects strong journalism quality through rigorous, ground-reported enterprise stories, in-depth investigations, fact-checking via the IFCN-certified WebQoof unit, and multimedia excellence in documentaries, explainers, and visual storytelling. The Quint emphasizes exclusive coverage via Special Projects — powerful long-form investigations, impactful documentaries (on urban walkability, public transport failures, hate crimes like 'Uncovering Hate', hijab bans, cow vigilantism), and series like 'Caught in the Middle' (middle-class issues), 'Naukri Crisis' and citizen journalism platform 'My Report'. Exclusive shows and programs include video-heavy originals on YouTube, podcasts like 'The Big Story', and deep dives into social justice, policy, and underreported issues. To sustain this independent, fearless reporting amid challenges, The Quint focuses on a reader-powered membership model. The Quint's Members gain ad-free access, paywalled premium content, exclusive goodie bags, opinion columns, and priority to unlimited stories, videos, and podcasts. The Quint has a dedicated community that funds and champions its mission to "question everything" and deliver stories others avoid or miss — earning praise for reliability, depth, and real-world impact in India's evolving media landscape.
Let's Mike
Access global and hyper-local news through audio, video, and text formats. This application provides authentic and unbiased news content, delivering information directly to your device.
- Audio news broadcasts
- Video news content
- Text news articles
- Global news coverage
- Hyper-local news
- Unbiased reporting
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Let’s Mike is the leading mobile aaplication that broadcasts News and relevant information on Radio App in audio, video and text format . Lets mike delivers global and hyper local authentic, unbiased news. Ab khabren Radio App pe yeh hai More Than Radio
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Let's Mike at 100% against The Quint's 37%. Let's Mike also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). The Quint's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
Let's Mike holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Quint has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of The Quint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Let's Mike's.
The Quint ships an update every 5 days, Let's Mike weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Quint | Let's Mike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Quintillion Media Private Limited | FULMINOUS SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED |
Customer experience
The Quint
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In-app purchases
The Quint
No in-app purchases
Let's Mike
No in-app purchases
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