Tibet.Net vs VOA Burmese
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tibet.Net
Access news, announcements, photos, and videos related to the Central Tibetan Administration. This trilingual app offers offline reading, downloadable content, and social sharing features.
- Trilingual content
- Push notifications
- Photo and video galleries
- Offline caching
- Save stories for later
- Social sharing
- Downloadable PDFs
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Quick glance at the app Features. • Complete trilingual mobile application • Push Notification for News and announcements. • Photo of the day and video of the week. • Photo galleries and full screen images. • Access to our full range of Tibet TV trilingual videos. • Improved Offline experience: Caching system • Saved stories – Save the latest news, photos and publications and read them at your leisure. • Share the stories to your social networks or email / sms. • Downloadable PDF for publications, periodicals, forms and other available attachments. • Support for Dynamic text: You can adjust the font size in the post as per your preference.
VOA Burmese
Access news from one of the world's largest international media networks directly on your mobile device. Enjoy a variety of content formats, breaking news alerts, and offline access to stories, videos, and audio. Share content easily and utilize built-in circumvention tools.
- Photos, video, audio, and text content
- Breaking news notifications
- On-demand podcasts
- Offline content downloading
- Customizable navigation
- Social media sharing
- Circumvention tool support
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The free, *official* Voice of America (VOA) mobile / tablet application serves news to your mobile device or tablet. VOA operates one of the world's largest international news media networks on TV, radio and digital properties with a total weekly audience of more than 200 million people around the world, including Africa, The Middle East, Asia and beyond. To do this, VOA employs more than 3,500 journalists, focused on countries without a free or established press or free and open internet access. The news application features: * Enjoy photos, video, audio and text content * Breaking news notifications * Hear podcasts on demand * Download stories, videos, and photos for offline reading, watching, and listening * Customizable navigation items and order * Stream multimedia * Offline-downloading and saving of news content for later enjoyment * Social media sharing on Facebook, Twitter, email and other platforms * Built-in support for Psiphon and New Node circumvention
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Verdict
Tibet.Net and VOA Burmese both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Tibet.Net's written reviews are positive against 34% of VOA Burmese's. Tibet.Net also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.0). VOA Burmese's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 11). On price, rating, 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.
VOA Burmese holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VOA Burmese has 1.5K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Tibet.Net's written reviews are positive against 34% of VOA Burmese's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tibet.Net ships an update every 2 weeks, VOA Burmese every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Tibet.Net | VOA Burmese |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 34.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Central Tibetan Administration | Voice of America |
Customer experience
Tibet.Net
VOA Burmese
Bugs and requests
Tibet.Net
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
VOA Burmese
Reported bugs
2 issues- Live video not working
- Zawgyi font issues, cannot read
Requested features
2 requests- Use Unicode font instead of Zawgyi
- Improve font support
In-app purchases
Tibet.Net
No in-app purchases
VOA Burmese
No in-app purchases
