GNN HD vs UrduPoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GNN HD
This news app aims to provide credible, reliable, and accurate information, focusing on issues that directly affect viewers. It prioritizes representation of the common masses and highlights topics like education, health, politics, and the economy.
- Credible and accurate news reporting
- Focus on viewer-relevant issues
- Representation of common masses
- Coverage of education and health
- Reporting on politics, economy, and culture
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At G News Network, we are determined to carry forward this hard earned reputation. With this aim in mind, the GNN team will consist of such individuals who share our philosophy of bringing positivity and goodness to professionalism, social service and contributing to the common masses’ representation in mainstream media. This representation is currently a vacuum in scores of mainstream news media channels. GNN believes that with the advent of interactive media that helps the people to personalize a gadget, the masses deserve a television channel that reflects a portrayal of their own life instead of elitist based news runs. GNN pledges to equip its audiences with the most credible, reliable and accurate information to keep them up-to-date round the clock. We at GNN believe in giving the due right of information to the people but at the same time, we have the agenda to prioritize our news time, transmission time and our headlines focusing on the issues that directly affect the viewers and interest them. GNN vows to contribute its share in fighting the social menace exist in society by spreading awareness and mobilizing the young of Pakistan who make up over 70 per cent of its population. To maintain the highest professional standards, the institute along with its staff members must comply with the journalistic code of ethics. It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to apply the Code to editorial material in both printed and online versions of publications. GNN promises to highlight issues related to education and health as better and affordable education and healthcare facilities are basic rights of people. It also pledges to do accurate and credible reporting on topics ranging from politics to the economy, foreign policy to investment, sports to culture and theatre and the arts.
UrduPoint
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Breaking Urdu News, Pakistan News, latest Urdu news, videos, sports, showbiz, technology trends, exciting news, etc. Your one-stop application to remain connected with Pakistani and global news in Urdu.
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Verdict
GNN HD and UrduPoint are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
GNN HD ships an update every 2 months, UrduPoint every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GNN HD | UrduPoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shaharyar Nawaz | UrduPoint Network FZE |
In-app purchases
GNN HD
No in-app purchases
UrduPoint
No in-app purchases
