TVU GridLink vs Silicon Audit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TVU GridLink
Discover live TVU news sources with detailed thumbnails and descriptions. This utility app helps users find and monitor available broadcast feeds.
- Live news source thumbnails
- Metadata descriptions
- Broadcast feed monitoring
- Source discovery utility
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TVU GridLink provides a thumbnail and metadata description of available TVU Grid live news sources.
Silicon Audit
This app analyzes your Apple device's chip and kernel to report on its security features. It provides both plain-language explanations and deep technical details about hardware protections. The app monitors for changes and allows you to export reports, all while prioritizing user privacy with no network access or analytics.
- Chip and kernel security feature analysis
- Plain language and technical detail explanations
- Memory tagging and integrity enforcement checks
- Pointer authentication and speculation hardening
- Kernel protection documentation
- Change monitoring and notifications
- JSON report export
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Silicon Audit shows what your Apple device's chip and kernel report about their security features: in plain language first, and in full technical detail when you want it. WHAT IT CHECKS • Memory tagging hardware (MTE) and Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement • Pointer authentication and branch target protection • Speculation hardening and constant-time execution • The kernel protections Apple documents for your chip family • On macOS, whether memory tagging is active right now, and whether it is active for this app Every answer says where it came from. Measured means your device's kernel reported it through the public sysctl interface. Documented means Apple published it, and the source and date are shown. The app never guesses: a chip Apple has not documented reads as not documented. LOOK DEEPER Every check opens to the facts behind it, and every fact to its raw reading: the sysctl key, type, length and value. All readings sit on three shelves: security protections, chip and instruction sets, device and system. A measurement screen explains how the report was produced. CHANGE MONITORING The first reading becomes a baseline. Silicon Audit checks again when you open it and periodically in the background, and tells you if anything moved: a protection that was reported on and now reports off, a value that changed, a key that appeared or vanished, a system update. Each change is explained at three depths: a plain sentence, what it could mean, and the technical before and after. Notifications are optional. The monitor sees only what the kernel exposes, and the app says so. EXPORT AND CONTRIBUTE Export a JSON report with provenance on every fact. It contains no serial number, device identifier, hostname or account. Contribute it to the public results database on GitHub to help map which Apple chips report which protections. PRIVACY No network access. No analytics. Readings stay on your device unless you share them. Open source under Apache-2.0. Apple Watch: measure on the watch itself and send the report to your iPhone. Apple TV: export as a QR code.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TVU GridLink at 11.0 against Silicon Audit's 18.0. On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TVU GridLink against 5.0 for Silicon Audit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | TVU GridLink | Silicon Audit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TVU Networks Corporation | Unredacted Inc |
In-app purchases
TVU GridLink
No in-app purchases
Silicon Audit
No in-app purchases









