Comparison

Climate Action Now vs SORT LA

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

Head to head
About

Climate Action Now

Amplify your voice for climate action by sending personalized messages to political and business leaders. Learn about climate issues and earn real trees for your efforts. Connect with a community of activists and contribute to collective change.

Highlights
  • Send personalized messages to leaders
  • Earn real trees for actions
  • Learn about climate issues
  • Contact elected officials easily
  • Join teams and compete
  • Share actions in a community feed
Features
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Public opinion is the only effective counterweight to the immense power of the fossil fuel industry. The industry knows this, which is why it spends so much time and money trying to shape it. Your opinion really does matter. It is your superpower. But it doesn’t count for much if you don’t express it. The Climate Action Now app can help you with that. It is your opinion amplifier. It is your megaphone. This app does the work so that you don’t have to. It provides an endless stream of well-researched, well-written, personalized messages that you can send to political and business leaders advocating for climate action in just seconds with just a few touches! And you’ll learn a lot about the issues and earn real trees as you go. FAST. Most actions in the app – like contacting your elected officials, emailing CEOs, or asking media influencers to step up – can be taken with just a few touches in just a few seconds. We’ve done all the work for you so that you don’t need to. Don’t know who your elected officials are? Give the app your location, and it will tell you. Don’t know how to contact them? The app has their email addresses and phone numbers. Don’t know what to tell them? The app gives you personalized, well-written, powerful messages that you can send in seconds. IMPACTFUL. Climate Action Now gives you, whether you are a concerned citizen or a hard-core climate activist, the means to take thousands of individual, collective, and systemic actions NOW. To date, app users have sent over one MILLION messages and planted over 47,000 trees. You can send an impactful message in seconds. Did you know that just 100 companies, and the politicians, investors, and regulators who enable them, are responsible for over 70% of the world’s emissions? Climate Action Now makes it easy for you to influence them with emails, petitions, and phone calls. Did you know that the fossil fuel industry is poisoning communities of color in their own backyards? Climate Action Now helps you fight these injustices and demand an equitable future for all. Did you know that leading climate activists say the most important thing you can do about climate change is to talk about it? Every action you take with Climate Action Now is automatically posted to the app's Community Feed where people can see it, take that action also, comment on it, like it, and share it with others. REWARDING. Every action you take earns points, and when you’ve earned enough points, a real tree will be planted. Every action you take sets an example for others to follow. Join a team and every action you take contributes to the team’s total and helps it win rivalries with other teams. Through all these things, you earn the most important reward of all: knowing that you’re doing your part to save our planet. Time is short, and the future is in our hands. Literally. Together, with a phone or tablet and a few minutes a day, we can all take Climate Action Now.

About

SORT LA

Discover how to recycle, compost, or dispose of common materials in Los Angeles. Test your knowledge with an engaging waste-sorting game to improve your recycling skills.

Highlights
  • Recycling information for common materials
  • Composting guidelines
  • Disposal instructions
  • Waste-sorting game
  • Los Angeles specific information
Features
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Search for common materials to learn how they can be recycled, composted, or disposed of in Los Angeles with LA Sanitation & Environment. Test your skills with our Can You SORT It? waste-sorting game!

Screenshots

Climate Action Now4 screens
SORT LA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Climate Action Now at every 3 weeks against SORT LA's every 4 months. Climate Action Now also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 3). SORT LA's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Climate Action Now against 5.0 for SORT LA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Climate Action Now has 167 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Climate Action Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of SORT LA's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Climate Action Now ships an update every 3 weeks, SORT LA every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Climate Action Now versus SORT LA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClimate Action NowSORT LA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (167 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings167 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClimate Action NowCity of Los Angeles

Customer experience

Climate Action Now

All ratings167 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.6%

SORT LA

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Climate Action Now

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App takes too long to load
  • Error messages when sending emails
  • App assumes specific email client (e.g., Mail on iPhone)
  • App posts user actions publicly without easy opt-out

Requested features

4 requests
  • Option to turn off public posting of actions
  • More flexibility in email platform selection
  • Alternative to mandatory pronoun selection (e.g., 'other' option)
  • Less frequent donation requests

SORT LA

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Climate Action Now

No in-app purchases

None

SORT LA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Climate Action Now free?
Climate Action Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SORT LA free?
SORT LA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Climate Action Now or SORT LA?
SORT LA is rated higher. Climate Action Now averages 4.9 out of 5 from 167 ratings, while SORT LA averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Climate Action Now or SORT LA have ads?
Neither Climate Action Now nor SORT LA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Climate Action Now or SORT LA?
Climate Action Now ships an update every 3 weeks, and SORT LA every 4 months. Most recently, Climate Action Now was updated on September 24, 2026 and SORT LA on September 15, 2026.

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