Tearline by NGA vs NLKMaps
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
NLKMaps
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NLKMaps allows you to use multiple sources of maps in a single place, enabling syncing of the position among several maps. It’s impossible to achieve that using a browser. - Pick the map among available ones - Compare the maps - Enable or disable position sync - Search for locations - Set the tags (long-press) and export them as GeoJSON
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Verdict
Tearline by NGA and NLKMaps are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Tearline by NGA | NLKMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | Ievgen Naloiko |
In-app purchases
Tearline by NGA
No in-app purchases
NLKMaps
No in-app purchases









