Alex Cartoon vs guidl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alex Cartoon
Get your daily dose of business world satire with this app. It delivers the Daily Telegraph's Alex cartoon strip directly to your phone in a vibrant, frame-by-frame format. Stay updated on corporate life through humorous commentary.
- Daily cartoon strip delivery
- Full-colour, frame-by-frame format
- Focus on corporate world satire
- Features investment banker Alex Masterley
- Includes supporting cast of colleagues
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The Alex cartoon app delivers the daily cartoon strip from the business section of the Daily Telegraph direct to your phone in a full-colour, frame-by-frame format. The essential way to keep up with the latest goings-on in the corporate world through the jaundiced eye of investment banker Alex Masterley, with a full supporting cast of vindictive bosses, aspirational juniors and interfering HR people and compliance officers.
guidl
Experience the world through location-based audio tours. Discover new perspectives, learn about places, or create and share your own audio stories. Explore from anywhere, anytime.
- Location-based audio experiences
- Explore tours from home or on location
- Create and share audio content
- Purchase full tours
- Connect with creators and explorers
- Growing library of content
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BRING YOUR WORLD TO LIFE. That’s our vision. guidl is the ultimate companion for anyone looking to explore our world. Offering a unique and immersive way to engage with our environment, a guidl is an audio experience, linked to a real-world location. Are you looking to listen to your favourite creator, or hear a new perspective? Do you want the punchy highlights, or a detailed analysis? Want info on a well-trodden hotspot, or to stroll down the road less travelled? There’ll be a guidl for you. HOW GUIDL WORKS It’s easy to begin exploring. Open the app and immediately see the guidl tours available. Embark on a free sample guidl and if you like what you hear, purchase the full guidl tour. Stick in your headphones and be inspired, entertained, and challenged as you go from guidl to guidl and hear from the guidl creator. Tours cost between £4.99 to £9.99, with the majority (60%) of profits going directly to the guidl creator. There are no hidden costs. LIMITLESS EXPLORATION Walk the ground, experiencing guidl on location, or from the comfort of your home. All you need is the guidl app. Our library of guidl tours is constantly growing. New destinations, stories and secrets are being added all the time, so there’s always something new to discover. Whether you’re a dedicated traveller or just looking to while away a few moments learning something new, guidl offers a never-ending supply of fantastic content to explore. DISCOVER TOGETHER Connect with storytellers or other like-minded explorers. Join the guidl community and stay up to date. SHARE YOUR BRILLIANCE Could you be a guidl creator? Do you have something to share? Do you have a passion, specialist interest or a story about the world to tell? Consider guidl. Use just your voice and our inbuilt tools to create compelling audio content, upload it and earn money when it's accessed. Sign up at our website https://www.guidl.tours/ MORE INFORMATION Please visit our website https://www.guidl.tours/ Privacy: Terms: Say hello! Hello@guidl.tours Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guidltours/?hl=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@guidltours Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guidltours X: https://twitter.com/guidltours
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: guidl at 100% against Alex Cartoon's 36%. Alex Cartoon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. guidl sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Alex Cartoon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Alex Cartoon ships an update every 3 weeks, guidl every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alex Cartoon | guidl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Infinite Kind Limited | Guidl Ltd |
Customer experience
Alex Cartoon
guidl
Bugs and requests
Alex Cartoon
Reported bugs
37 issues- Missing Kicker Panel
- On my iPad Pro 12.9 only the first three panes can be seen.
- Doesn’t auto-update
- Fails to show last panel of each strip
- Keep On getting an error message when I Load the app.
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- Cartoons are no longer updating in App
- Stuck on same cartoon for almost a month
- It's currently not updating beyond 28th Sep 2021.
- The cartoons on the app are weeks behind the actual paper
- Hasn’t added a new strip for almost three weeks.
- This app no longer works
- The app did exactly what I expected, delivered the cartoon, until about 10 days back when it stopped grabbing the latest cartoon and shows the same one over and over
- Last strip posted was 28th September…and app reports “Error” every time it is opened.
- Seems to have stopped updating. No new strips for over 2 weeks now.
- Works on iPhone but for months now it will not work on iPad!
- Since the upgrade, I have only been able to view the first three slides, the final slide with the punchline is missing.
- Always displaying error messages and not showing full strip in one panel
- Only 3 out of 4 panes showing on iPad
- 4th panel is missing on each days comic now
- No longer shows all 4 frames in iOS 14.4; always missing the punchline.
- Used to get all 4 of the pics. Now I can only get three.
- Only screens 1 to 3 are displaying - please fix
- App has suddenly started only showing the first three panels. instead of four.
- Frame missing
- Latest update seems to have gone wrong. Only displays first 3 frames.
- Since upgrading to the new operating system, it will only show three of the screens per day. This is useless, unless you can suggest how I can see the last picture with the punchline.
- iPad Air , now doesn’t show 4th panel
- the app screen is super stretched and difficult to read after apple update
- The app does not work under iOS 14.4, please fix it.
- Excellent cartoon but it appears to have been stretched and no longer fit my screen. IPHONE XR.
- The aspect ratio seems to have been broken by a recent iOS update. But as the app hasn’t been updated for 2 years perhaps it’s not going to be fixed.
- The app now shows a distorted and elongated image since updating to 14.4.
- Since upgrading to iOS 14.4 the app seems to be assuming a much taller screen that possessed by my iPhone SE 2020 so the cartoon frames are stretched vertically. You can scroll down to scan the whole image but not get to the three buttons normally at the bottom because they’re hidden behind it.
- Since the latest “update” I can’t open the app, it just informs me there is a date format error. Please sort it as I miss my daily dose of Alex!
- The app has stopped working for the past week or so....some date challenge.
- Cartoon now officially 48 hours behind...
- Love the cartoon but has it stalled ?
Requested features
7 requests- Automatic app updates
- Fix for missing final panel
- Fix for screen stretching/distortion
- Fix for iPad compatibility
- Fix for error messages
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- Fix for update issues
- Fix for date format error
guidl
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Alex Cartoon
No in-app purchases
guidl
- Tour$4.99
- Tour$5.99
- Tour$6.99
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- Tour$7.99
- Tour2 variants$9.99
