Voyent Alert! vs NanaimoNews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
NanaimoNews
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Nanaimo News NOW is the go-to online newspaper for up to the minute news and community information in Nanaimo and throughout the Island. The Nanaimo News NOW newsroom focuses on the news and information that matters in Nanaimo and area. Staffed with the community's most experienced and well respected reporters, the Nanaimo News NOW newsroom operates 7 days a week to provide readers with up-to-the-minute news, weather, and sports coverage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Voyent Alert! at none against NanaimoNews's shown. Voyent Alert! also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Voyent Alert! ships an update every 4 months, NanaimoNews every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voyent Alert! | NanaimoNews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ICEsoft Technologies Inc. | Pattison Media Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Voyent Alert!
No in-app purchases
NanaimoNews
No in-app purchases
