V2EX vs R2V
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
V2EX
This app offers a comprehensive experience for exploring community discussions, posts, and comments. It provides features like image viewing, notifications, and account management. Advanced options include viewing comment threads, customization, and secure login.
- Full theme, comment, and node experience
- Image viewing similar to Twitter
- Unread notification reminders
- View comment conversations
- Customizable reading settings
- Secure login with 1Password
- Automatic daily sign-in
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V2EX - 开源好用的非官方客户端 基础功能 ---------------------------------- - 主题、评论 、节点 … 等功能的完整体验。例如翻页、评论、收藏、帖子详情与评论图文支持、超链点击支持智能解析 ...等等。 - 查看图片体验与twitter类似，保证看图体验 - 及时的未读通知提醒 - 用户账户相关功能 特色功能 ---------------------------------- - 评论支持查看对话，上下文更清晰（将某条评论相关的评论提取出来单独查看，无关的剔除） - 多配色（亮色、暗色），自定义字号行距等阅读设置 - 1Password 登陆 ，登陆TOKEN失效自动重登，多账号管理与一键切换 - 自动签到 ---------------------------------- 更多功能与细节等待你的探索，并且你也可以参与进来，向我提出任何你想要的功能，或直接在Github上贡献代码。
R2V
A third-party client for a creative worker community, offering features like customizable home feeds, detailed topic previews with text selection and decoding, user profile viewing, and personalized settings for layout and display.
- Customizable home feed sorting
- Detailed topic previews
- Text selection and base64 decode
- User profile viewing and editing
- Personalized display settings
- Daily check-in
- Image QR code recognition
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R2V 是一款 ”V2EX创意工作者社区“ 的第三方 App。 ## 主要功能 1. 主页帖列表 - 自定义栏目排序 - 可添加节点到首页标签中 2. 主题预览 - 查看主题详情 - 支持文本选择，以及 base64 decode - 相关回复会话模式预览 - 回复主题， base64 文本 encode - 用户信息 Bottomsheet 3. 主题发表 4. Imgur 图床 5. 查看用户资料 - 发表的主题 - 发表的回复 - 修改用户资料 6. 自定义偏好设置 - 显示/隐藏头像 - 布局风格选择（标准/紧凑） - 已读/已读更新提示 - 自动刷新 7. 主题设置，默认主题外，提供其他强调色主题 8. 搜索设置 9. `r2v` url scheme - 主题页： r2v://v2ex.com/t/:id - 节点页：r2v://v2ex.com/node/:name - 用户主页：r2v://v2ex.com/member/:username 10. 其他 - 每日签到 - 图片二维码识别
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: R2V at 4.6 against V2EX's 4.0. V2EX's advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 60%) and ratings volume (29 vs 9). 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.
R2V holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of V2EX's written reviews are positive against 60% of R2V's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
V2EX ships an update every 2 months, R2V every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | V2EX | R2V |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (29 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | 嘉伟 杨 |
Customer experience
V2EX
R2V
In-app purchases
V2EX
No in-app purchases
R2V
No in-app purchases
