Comparison

Voyent Alert! vs CKPG Today

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Voyent Alert!

Receive critical event and general communications from local governments and organizations. Notifications are customized for your followed locations, offering contextual information like direction and distance to events, along with enriched media.

Highlights
  • Customized notifications by location
  • Critical event alerts
  • General day-to-day communications
  • Direction and distance to events
  • Enriched media (images, PDFs, links)
  • Concise and relevant information
Features
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Voyent Alert! is a smart notification service that enables users to receive critical event and general day-to-day communications from participating municipalities, regional governments and organizations. The Voyent Alert! communications are customized for each user’s followed locations (e.g. "Home", "Work", "Kid's School", "Mobile Phone"). Users can be provided with notifications containing greater situational context, such as direction and distance to a critical event based on their location as well as enriched media such as images, PDFs and hyperlinks to more information. Voyent Alert! provides concise information when you require it and ensures you are not saturated with notifications that are not relevant to you. Stay Alert. Stay Connected.

About

CKPG Today

Stay informed with the latest news and community updates from Prince George and Northern British Columbia. This online newspaper provides up-to-the-minute coverage of local news, weather, and sports, seven days a week.

Highlights
  • Up-to-the-minute news
  • Community information
  • Weather coverage
  • Sports updates
  • Local focus
Features
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CKPGToday.ca is the go-to online newspaper for up to the minute news and community information in Prince George and Northern BC. The CKPG newsroom focuses on the news and information that matters. Staffed with the community's most experienced and well respected reporters, the CKPG newsroom operates 7 days a week to provide readers with up-to-the-minute news, weather, and sports coverage.

Screenshots

Voyent Alert!4 screens
CKPG Today4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CKPG Today at 100% against Voyent Alert!'s 17%. Voyent Alert!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voyent Alert! ships an update every 4 months, CKPG Today every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Voyent Alert! versus CKPG Today: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoyent Alert!CKPG Today
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (81 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings81 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperICEsoft Technologies Inc.Pattison Media Ltd.

Customer experience

Voyent Alert!

All ratings81 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative80.0%

CKPG Today

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Voyent Alert!

No in-app purchases

None

CKPG Today

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Voyent Alert! free?
Voyent Alert! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CKPG Today free?
CKPG Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Voyent Alert! or CKPG Today have ads?
CKPG Today shows ads; Voyent Alert! does not.
Which is updated more often, Voyent Alert! or CKPG Today?
Voyent Alert! ships an update every 4 months, and CKPG Today every 8 months. Most recently, Voyent Alert! was updated on November 11, 2026 and CKPG Today on November 3, 2026.

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