YouTrend vs TrueReels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YouTrend
Discover the most popular videos across a wide range of categories, from cinema and sports to music and technology. Easily browse, view, and share trending content with friends.
- Trending video discovery
- Categorized content
- Easy sharing
- Wide variety of topics
- View most viewed videos
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Using YouTrend you will discover the most trending videos of this moment categorized! Cinema, sports, entertainment, games, Vlogs, engine, music, pets, travel, events, comedy, advice, style, training, science, technology and much more! All the most viewed videos in each category sorted so you can easily view and share them with your friends! Do not hesitate and download it now!
TrueReels
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Tap play and you are already in the middle of it: a radiation alarm going off in Sweden, a hijacker stepping out of a plane into the dark, a lake in Cameroon killing a valley overnight. TrueReels is true history in short vertical episodes, most of them under two minutes, built as series so one story leads straight into the next. The pictures and voices are made with AI. Every episode is written from sources you can read in the app. Every series starts with a free episode, and one more story is free each day. WHAT'S PLAYING RASPUTIN. The murder story everyone repeats, and the piece of forensic evidence it cannot survive. RADIUM. Young women painting glowing watch dials, told to sharpen the brush between their lips. THE ROMANOVS. Forty-four bone fragments beside a road, nearly ninety years late. POMPEII. The "mother" in the plaster cast was a man. It took ancient DNA to say so. TESLA. Three taps on a Colorado hillside that he took for Mars. TITANIC. An ice warning that passed through the ship's own radio room and was relayed onward. EARHART. One cryptic transmission, the last her support ship ever heard. DYATLOV PASS. Nine hikers, an intact tent, and knife cuts made from the inside. MARY CELESTE. Full sails, six months of food, ten people gone. THE WOW! SIGNAL. Seventy-two seconds in 1977. Silence since. TAMBORA. Snow in New England in July, and the volcano thousands of miles away that caused it. Also playing: Chernobyl, Edison, Houdini, D.B. Cooper, Roanoke, Alcatraz 1962, Lituya Bay, Tunguska, Lake Nyos, the Somerton Man and the Mandela Effect. Twenty-two series in all, each one running in order, so a subject unfolds the way a season does. WHERE IT COMES FROM Before a script is written, a fact sheet is built from inquiry records, archives, newspapers of the time, published letters, papers and books. Each fact is saved with a quote from the page it came from, and a check looks for that quote in the source text. The narration is then checked against the sheet. Tap Sources on any episode to read the quotes and open the pages. HOW IT WATCHES Full screen, portrait, one thumb. Tap the right side of the picture for the next episode and the left side to go back. The controls fade after a few seconds, and the first tap brings them back. Tap Facts while an episode plays to see a line quoted from its source, with the source underneath. When an episode ends, the next one you can watch starts in five seconds, or tap Back to series. Continue watching picks up where you stopped, and moves on to the next episode when you finish one. My List holds the series you found at 1am until lunchtime. REMINDERS After your first finished episode the app asks once if you want a reminder. If you say yes and have not opened TrueReels in a week, it suggests a story. It sends one more at 10 days and one at 20 days, and then stops. Say no and it never asks again. WHAT IT COSTS The first episode of every series is free and needs no subscription. So is Today's story, one more episode each day, shown at the top of Home. All Access opens every episode in the library: $4.99 a week, $14.99 a month, or $39.99 a year. The annual plan starts with a 3-day free trial. The weekly and monthly plans have no trial. TrueReels All Access is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, or, on the annual plan, when the 3-day free trial ends. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription before it ends. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://truereels.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://truereels.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: YouTrend at none against TrueReels's 3. YouTrend also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). TrueReels's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price and ads 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. TrueReels sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. YouTrend asks for nothing beyond the download.
YouTrend ships an update every 2 months, TrueReels every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YouTrend | TrueReels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Devinet | FTP Travel LLC |
In-app purchases
YouTrend
No in-app purchases
TrueReels
- All Access Weekly$4.997 Days
- All Access Monthly$14.991 Month
- All Access Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year









