Kantipur vs Udanta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kantipur
Access breaking news, in-depth stories, and opinion pieces from a leading Nepali daily newspaper. Features include interactive comments, personalized news recommendations, offline reading, and multimedia content.
- Breaking news and opinion
- Interactive comments
- Personalized local news
- Offline reading
- Multimedia content
- Article bookmarking and sharing
- Author profiles
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The Official online Nepali news app of Kantipur Daily newspaper with the newly redesigned experience of breaking news & opinion through in-depth stories, photo galleries, news clips and individual profiles. Favorite Features: * Explore what is making headlines like never before. * New Interactive Comments, now you can write and recommend comments online. * Get recommended Local Nepali news tailored according to your interests. * Login to get more features form multi-platform (Facebook or any Email) * A new top navigation for swiping quickly across popular sections * Read your favorite articles even you are disconnected from the internet with our new instant offline reading feature. * State of the art app performance including speed and stability. * Redesigned daily notification featuring the latest breaking news. * A more visually appealing and responsive grid layout for tablets * Article pages with richer images, fonts, and multimedia. * Read, Bookmark or Share article. * Breaking Local News Alerts that link directly to developing stories * Find news from your favorite authors. * Save articles across platforms to revisit later on any device (web, phone, tablet) * Share articles, photos and videos through your favorite sharing platform * Find horoscope, Nepali calendar, movies, exchange rate, classified etc. * Write & publish articles for the online or print edition. * Manage your own profile, page, and articles.
Udanta
Aggregates news from Nepal's publishers, grouping similar stories for comprehensive reporting. Offers language selection, topic filtering, live radio and TV streams, market data, weather, and a Nepali calendar. Includes offline reading and a dark mode.
- Aggregated news from Nepal
- Multi-language support (Nepali/English)
- Live radio and TV streaming
- Market data (NEPSE, interest rates, gold/silver)
- Nepali calendar with date conversion
- Offline reading mode
- Save stories for later
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Udanta brings the headlines from Nepal's news publishers into one feed. When several outlets cover the same story, Udanta groups them together — so you can see how a story is being reported rather than reading one version of it. Tap Full Coverage to read every outlet's take side by side. CHOOSE YOUR LANGUAGE Pick Nepali and you see Nepali language newspapers only. Pick English and you see English language ones only. The two are never mixed, and the whole app including dates and numerals follows your choice. TOPICS Browse Top stories, or filter to Nepal, Politics, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Technology and Health. LIVE RADIO Eight Nepali FM stations, streamed from the broadcasters themselves. Playback carries on with the screen off or the app in your pocket, and the station appears on the lock screen and on a car head unit over Bluetooth. Set an alarm to wake to a station, or a sleep timer to have it stop by itself. Nepali television channels are on the same tab. MARKET • The NEPSE index drawn as a chart you can drag a finger across, and the whole board of 558 companies filtered by industry • Interest rates across the nineteen commercial banks, savings, fixed deposit terms, base rates, home and vehicle lending, with a loan calculator that works out the monthly installment and every payment in the schedule • Gold and silver rates from the Nepal Gold and Silver Dealer's Association, with the day's move • Foreign exchange rates from Nepal Rastra Bank, with a built-in converter • Daily wholesale vegetable prices from the Kalimati market board • A directory of the numbers worth having: ambulance, police, fire, hospitals, utilities and government offices, tappable to dial WEATHER Current conditions and a seven day forecast for where you are, or for any major Nepali city. NEPALI CALENDAR A Bikram Sambat( Nepal official calendar) month view with the Gregorian date under each day, public holidays and the tithi, and today's date always in the header. Jump to any month back to 1900, and convert dates between Bikram Sambat and Gregorian in either direction. ALSO • Save stories to read later • Search everything you have loaded • Dark mode, and a layout that works offline from the last refresh ABOUT THE CONTENT Udanta shows the headline and a short summary from each publisher's own public feed, always credited to them. Tapping a story opens it on the publisher's site, so they receive the visit. Udanta does not host, rewrite or republish articles. No account. No sign-in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Udanta at 5.0 against Kantipur's 1.0. Udanta also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). Kantipur's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume 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.
Udanta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Kantipur ships an update every 6 days, Udanta every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Kantipur | Udanta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kantipur Publications (P) Limited | Udaya Kasaju |
Customer experience
Kantipur
Udanta
In-app purchases
Kantipur
No in-app purchases
Udanta
No in-app purchases








