Climate Action Now vs Marginalist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Marginalist
Read and annotate long manuscripts with ease. This app supports Word and PDF imports, offers customizable reading environments, and includes AI-powered features for recaps and character indexing. Export your annotated documents with original formatting intact.
- Import Word (.docx) and PDF files
- Customizable reading environment
- Add and manage comments
- AI-powered recap and character index
- Read Aloud functionality
- Export with original formatting
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Marginalist is a focused manuscript reader (and text-to-speech/ manuscript audio player) for book editors, agents, publishers, professors, writing groups, friends-of-novelists, and anyone else who tackles reading long manuscripts. Open a MS Word document (.docx) or PDF, flow it into a beautiful reading experience, add and manage comments, and export back as the original document with all of your formatting intact. Our stay-out-of-the-way AI helps you keep track of your reading experience with three powerful features (Recap, Character Index, Ask) without generative nonsense. FEATURES: - Import MS Word (.docx) or PDF files (Files app, Dropbox, drag-and-drop and via share-sheet integration) - Adjust your perfect reading environment (font, theme, margins, etc) - Add comments with ease - or use one of our 'quick-action' comments - View your reading stats, search the manuscript, or connect an external keyboard - Three powerful non-generative AI features: - 'Remind me what happened' - get a recap of what's happened over the last handful of pages - 'Character index' - Marginalist automatically builds a character index with the associated passages so you never have to ask: 'Who is Robert again?' - Ask a question about the book - Read Aloud - Marginalist will read the manuscript to you - Author's Note - an in-app scratchpad / author's note can be optionally appended to the manuscript - Export the manuscript back into your workflow, with all of the original formatting intact - and all of your comments. Free to download and use. No account or signup needed. Upgrade to PRO for a few extra features. More info: https://marginalist.app Support & Contact https://marginalist.app/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Climate Action Now at 4.9 against Marginalist's 4.4. Climate Action Now also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (97% vs 75%). Marginalist's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Marginalist sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Climate Action Now asks for nothing beyond the download.
Climate Action Now holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Climate Action Now has 168 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Climate Action Now's written reviews are positive against 75% of Marginalist's.
Climate Action Now ships an update every 3 weeks, Marginalist weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Climate Action Now | Marginalist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (168 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.7% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Climate Action Now | Ben Parzybok |
Customer experience
Climate Action Now
Marginalist
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
Marginalist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Climate Action Now
No in-app purchases
Marginalist
- Marginalist Pro (monthly)$2.991 Month
- Marginalist Pro (yearly)$17.991 Year
- Short Story Narration$3.99
- Novella Narration$9.99
- Novel Narration$23.99
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- Novel Narration$29.99
- Long Novel Narration (PRO)$39.99
- Long Novel Narration$49.99
- Epic Narration (Pro)$54.99
- Epic Narration$69.99
Questions
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