Tearline by NGA vs CheckMarked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tearline by NGA
Access open-source intelligence on strategic, economic, and humanitarian topics. Review articles chronologically or by category, with detailed overviews and downloadable structured data. Includes infographics, visualizations, and satellite imagery analysis.
- Open access intelligence content
- Chronological and categorized article review
- Analytic overview and future focus highlights
- Downloadable structured data
- Infographics and visualizations
- Satellite imagery analysis
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Tearline provides open source intelligence to the public. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is partnering with expert non-profit groups to grow public-facing, authoritative open source intelligence on various strategic, economic, and humanitarian intelligence topics that tend to be under-reported within in-depth or long-form formats. Features • Content is open and available to the general public • Review all articles in chronological order or select a category of interest to view related articles • Article Overview feature highlights the analytic overview, activity intro, looking ahead focus areas and things to watch for next • Download the underlying structured data used in the articles, which are organized using simple color codes • Read content in chronological order in the Timeline feature • View infographics and visualizations summarizing the articles main content in the Graphs feature • Satellite imagery analysis available in articles
CheckMarked
Organize your thoughts and tasks using Markdown in a sleek, modern interface. Seamlessly integrate your notes with Obsidian for enhanced productivity.
- Markdown list support
- Clean, modern iOS interface
- Obsidian integration
- Task organization
- Note-taking
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CheckMarked lets you keep your lists in Markdown while presenting a clean, modern, iOS interface. Perfect for integrating with Obsidian.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CheckMarked at 5.0 against Tearline by NGA's 3.6. CheckMarked also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Tearline by NGA's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). 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.
CheckMarked holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively.
Tearline by NGA ships an update every 3 months, CheckMarked every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tearline by NGA | CheckMarked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | David Powers |
Customer experience
Tearline by NGA
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In-app purchases
Tearline by NGA
No in-app purchases
CheckMarked
No in-app purchases
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