Comparison

Cablecast vs Gatschu

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

Head to head
About

Cablecast

Stream live and on-demand content from Public, Education, and Government Access channels in HD. Catch up on local news, city meetings, and sports events conveniently on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Live and on-demand streaming
  • HD quality broadcasts
  • Local news and city meetings
  • Public, Education, Government channels
  • Location-based station suggestions
  • Recently watched station saved
Features
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Watch local news, city meetings & more on the go with this mobile streaming app. This app aggregates live and on-demand shows from Public, Education, and Government Access channels and streams them in HD to your mobile device. Now you can catch up on last week's City Council meeting or see the Wildcats win in overtime whenever and wherever it's convenient for you. Enable location services for the best experience. This app features stations from all over the country. If you enable location services, the station closest to you will appear at the top of the list. Your most recently watched station will be saved as a default the next time you open the app. You can pick a new channel from the list at any time. Cablecast is a streaming service provider for the stations featured in this app. If you have questions or comments for an individual station featured in this app, please contact them directly.

About

Gatschu

Features
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What is Gatschu? Gatschu is the moment when you chase the cat that escaped, it's when you're on your way to school. Gatschu is when you have fun with your friends, it is when you experience your happiest moments. Gatschu is for real, it is without filters, where it happens. Unmade and real, it's a part of everyone's life. Gatschu is at its best when it's fit, just like life. Gatschu is life. Gatschu is the ultimate platform for sharing your everyday life, your memories with your family and all your friends. With Gatschu you can; • Watch millions of videos specially selected for you. A personal feed tailored for you based on what you look at, what you like and what you share. We will quickly adapt to your taste - we want to be your best friend. • Be entertained and inspired by a global community of creative creators. • Follow, comment, and challenge your friends • Tag your friends in challenges • Constantly updated, fresh and creative content • Detects video and challenges in many different categories. At Gatschu we aim to make peer-to-peer video challenges easily accessible to everyone on the globe. We encourage every player to feel the thrill of competition from anywhere, at anytime and against anyone. The name [Gatschu] originally comes from careless pronunciation of "got you", much like the feeling when you capture a unique moment on video. Our vision is brought to life through our users / players and the online community! Gatschu is aiming to be one of the largest peer-to-peer video communities, where professionals and amateurs come together to compete and challenge each other. Finally! We think Gatschu is the best thing since sliced bread. In other words welcome to “the new reality!” Lets try Gatschu and; • Check out the latest videos. • Start uploading videos • Communicate with your friends • Watch epic videos • Create your own videos • Get famous by uploading your own video content • Get new friends all over the world • Get inspired by other cultures ------------------------------------------------------------- Happy by Luke Bergs | https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud/ Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ -------------------------------------------------------------

Screenshots

Cablecast4 screens
Gatschu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Cablecast at none against Gatschu's shown. Gatschu's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). 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

Cablecast ships an update every 3 months, Gatschu every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cablecast versus Gatschu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCablecastGatschu
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB70 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCablecast Community Media LLCAttBygga Sverige AB

In-app purchases

None

Cablecast

No in-app purchases

None

Gatschu

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cablecast free?
Cablecast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gatschu free?
Gatschu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cablecast or Gatschu have ads?
Gatschu shows ads; Cablecast does not.
Which is updated more often, Cablecast or Gatschu?
Cablecast ships an update every 3 months, and Gatschu every 2 months. Most recently, Cablecast was updated on October 21, 2026 and Gatschu on October 30, 2026.

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