IEEE vs InfoQ Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IEEE
Access the latest technology news and innovations. Read and download IEEE magazines, manage virtual meetups, and connect with members. Discover conferences and stay informed about the world of technology.
- Personalized experience and recommendations
- Latest technology and innovation news
- Read and download IEEE magazines
- Schedule and join virtual meetups
- Locate IEEE members
- Discover conferences and meetings
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The IEEE App gives you the ability to engage and connect with all things IEEE: • Personalize your experience and recommendations • Stay up-to-date with news on the latest technology and innovations • Read and download your IEEE magazines • Schedule, manage or join meetups virtually • Locate IEEE members by location, interests, and affiliations • Discover conferences and meetings Staying connected to the latest technology and innovation resources has never been easier. The world of technology is in your hands with the IEEE app.
InfoQ Mobile
Enhance your conference experience with this app. Plan your schedule, access live event information, and interact with sessions. Enjoy seamless access to all events with a single login, optimized for both online and offline use.
- Personalized schedule planning
- Live event mode for real-time updates
- Session voting and feedback
- Single sign-on for all conferences
- Offline and online functionality
- Favorite talks and build agenda
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InfoQ Mobile brings the software engineering coverage practitioners already read on InfoQ.com to your phone — and turns into your conference companion when you attend QCon. WHAT'S ON INFOQ • News and in-depth articles on architecture, AI/ML engineering, platform engineering, languages, culture and methods • Recorded presentations from QCon and InfoQ Dev Summits, with video playback • The InfoQ Podcast and Engineering Culture Podcast • Save anything to Watch Later or your reading list and come back to it • Pick the topics you care about, and get notified when something lands YOUR QCON, IN YOUR POCKET • The full conference schedule by day, track and room • Star sessions to build a personal agenda • Speaker bios and talk abstracts • Tracks and track hosts, so you can follow a theme end to end • Workshops and social events alongside the main programme • Venue floor plans, so you find the room before the talk starts • Rate sessions and answer speaker surveys while the talk is still fresh • Push notifications for schedule changes and announcements • Connect with other attendees you meet during the event • Code of Conduct and event FAQ, always one tap away BUILT FOR HOW ENGINEERS ACTUALLY USE A PHONE • Light and dark themes that follow your system setting • Conference content is preloaded so the schedule stays usable on flaky venue Wi-Fi • Sign in once with your InfoQ account • Links from infoq.com open straight to the article, news item or presentation InfoQ is where senior software engineers, architects and technical leaders track what's actually being adopted — not just what's being announced. QCon is the conference built on the same principle: real practitioners describing systems they've run in production. Free to download. An InfoQ account (also free) unlocks personalisation; a QCon ticket unlocks the attendee features for that conference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IEEE at 4.2 against InfoQ Mobile's 2.3. IEEE also leads on ratings volume (150 vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IEEE holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IEEE has 150 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of IEEE's written reviews are positive against 0% of InfoQ Mobile's.
IEEE ships an update every 5 weeks, InfoQ Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IEEE | InfoQ Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (150 ratings) — better | 2.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 6.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 150 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Inc | InfoQ |
Customer experience
IEEE
InfoQ Mobile
Bugs and requests
IEEE
Reported bugs
49 issues- Cannot download magazines
- Cannot read magazines in PDF format
- Membership card to Apple Wallet does not work
- Email address input format validation error
- App sticks on a loop when adding card to wallet
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- Sign in doesn't work
- Cannot sign in with IEEE password
- Cannot read Computer Magazine online or PDF
- Magazine zoom in is not good
- No panning when zoomed
- Downloaded PDFs don't have navigation
- 404 errors when reading content online
- Privacy settings not properly appearing
- App crashes when opening
- App crashes every time trying to open
- App crashes when opening on iPhone
- App crashes after showing splash screen
- App crashes after trying to open a notification
- Magazines get out of focus on iPad
- Extra white bar appears on iPad
- Zooming on page blocks text
- Taping screen causes zoom out
- Download button has no effect
- App freezes and crashes all the time
- Orientation locked
- Cannot access magazines
- No working links in magazines
- Cannot copy text from articles
- UI not flexible for phone, not supportive for tablets
- Only magazines show up for content
- Glitchy, slow magazine interface
- Cannot highlight or clip articles
- Unintuitive magazine interface
- No offline reading
- Crazy phone-based UX
- iPhone screen too small to read journals
- App nonfunctional on latest iOS
- IEEE Magazines not available
- Articles in Trending section disappear if not bookmarked
- No iPad version
- Forces portrait mode on iPad
- Cannot read Spectrum
- Lost ability to read offline
- Impossible to use entire screen on iPad
- Cannot make displayed magazine larger
- Multi-step process to download PDF
- iPhone screen size for iPad
- Out of focus when enlarging on iPad
- Articles don't show text
Requested features
16 requests- Add membership card to Apple Wallet
- Improve magazine zoom and panning
- Consistent online reader experience
- Allow saving reading progress
- Improve UI for better readability
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- Develop a dedicated iPad version
- Enable offline magazine reading
- Add navigation features to PDFs
- Improve sign-in process
- Fix email format validation errors
- Make privacy settings visible
- Add horizontal reading support
- Improve search functionality
- Improve back and done navigation
- Allow copying text from articles
- Enable external links in articles
InfoQ Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
IEEE
No in-app purchases
InfoQ Mobile
No in-app purchases
