Ranker vs Thing Sorter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ranker
Discover and create crowdsourced rankings on a vast array of topics, from movies and music to history and comics. Share your opinions and influence the collective ratings of millions of fans.
- Crowdsourced rankings
- Vote on movies, TV, music
- Fan-driven opinions
- Deep ranking categories
- Spooky stories
- Historical tales
- Cosplay and fan art rankings
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Ranker goes far beyond Top 10 lists with deep rankings about everything, voted on by everyone. It's the largest destination for crowdsourced rankings on movies, tv, music and more. We believe that the opinion of millions of fans is more definitive than the opinion of one critic. Fans like you have the ability to influence the rankings of their favorite athletes, singers, celebrities, TV, movies, and pretty much anything that can be ranked. Ranker has something for everyone - including spooky stories in Graveyard Shift, historical tales in Weird History, definitive cosplay, manga and fan art rankings in Anime Underground, Marvel, DC, and indie comics polls in Total Nerd, and Unsolved Mysteries in Unspeakable Times.
Thing Sorter
This app helps you make decisions by ranking options through a series of binary choices. It presents pairs of items, allowing you to select your preference, and then reveals a fully ranked list based on your selections. Discover your hidden biases and make choices with confidence.
- Create custom lists of options
- Rank items through binary choices
- View fully sorted lists
- Discover subliminal biases
- Easy to use interface
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There are lots of good reasons to have a list. Maybe you'd like to decide what movie to watch, or rank job offers. You have lots of decisions ranging from the essential to the mundane. This app can help you. When you create a list, you can add some options to it. once you have list options, you're ready to sort. This app shows you two items at a time. You decide which one you like best. You will be showed every possible combination of each item against each other in your list. When you have ranked them all, you will see the list ranked in the order you chose, and the number of times you voted for each item. You will be surprised and delighted to see your subliminal bias exposed by the ranking of items. It turns out that making binary decisions is far easier than sorting in abstract, but the result is just as satisfying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ranker at Free against Thing Sorter's $0.99. Ranker also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 45 months) and ratings volume (2K vs 11). Thing Sorter's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 60%). On rating, ads, 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
Ranker is free to download; Thing Sorter costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ranker against 4.6 for Thing Sorter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ranker has 2K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Ranker's written reviews are positive against 83% of Thing Sorter's.
Ranker ships an update monthly, Thing Sorter every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ranker | Thing Sorter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (2K ratings) — better | 4.6 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ranker | Jesse Ditson |
Customer experience
Ranker
Thing Sorter
Bugs and requests
Ranker
Reported bugs
4 issues- Invalid request errors
- Blank screens when trying to load content
- Scrolling issues causing loss of place
- Compatibility problems with newer OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add dark mode option
- Implement a save/bookmark feature for articles
- Improve content refresh and update frequency
- Allow users to customize their feed/interests
Thing Sorter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ranker
No in-app purchases
Thing Sorter
No in-app purchases
