1TVPLAY vs AReal Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1TVPLAY
This app offers a refreshed video-on-demand experience with a wide range of movies, TV shows, and live broadcasts. Enjoy seamless streaming of entertaining content tailored to your preferences.
- Video on Demand (VOD)
- Broadcasting Video on Demand (BVOD)
- Movies
- TV Shows
- Live Broadcasts
- Personalized content
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Introducing the newly redesigned and refreshed 1TVPLAY app by the Georgian Public Broadcaster. Experience the ultimate video-on-demand (VOD) platform, now upgraded to BVOD (Broadcasting Video on Demand). Discover a wide range of entertaining content, from movies and TV shows to live broadcasts, tailored to suit your preferences. Download the 1TVPLAY app now and enjoy a seamless streaming experience like never before!
AReal Guide
Discover cultural, tourist, and museum locations with customized audio tours. Purchase and enjoy self-paced guides with audio and textual information, and engage with gamified elements like quizzes and quests.
- Customizable audio tours
- Audio and textual information
- Tour search and purchase
- Gamified museum experiences
- Self-paced exploration
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Areal is a digital guide mobile app for travel enthusiasts, through the app users can get guide services at various cultural, tourist and museum locations through the app. With the help of the app, users can purchase a customized audio tour of a specific location, guide it based on their own interests and pace, and adjust to their own interests and time. The app is a tour marketplace for users, where users have access to all museum audio guide content in one app. Users can select any museum audio tour in the app and purchase it from the app, the app also has Gamification models for the museum tour, eg quizzes. Quests, find hidden objects. The user can easily use the application with the following features: Tour search - with this functionality, the user will find the tour he wants, which he can purchase and use at the specific location to which this tour is tailored. Tour purchase - the user will be able to purchase the desired tour through the application. Audio tour - in the tour, users will have audio material on each object and work, which they can listen to and select according to their wishes. Textual material - the user has the opportunity to receive textual information on any work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AReal Guide at 5.0 against 1TVPLAY's 4.2. AReal Guide also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). 1TVPLAY's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AReal Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 1TVPLAY has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
1TVPLAY ships an update every 5 weeks, AReal Guide every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | 1TVPLAY | AReal Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (77 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | First Channel | Areali, LLC |
Customer experience
1TVPLAY
AReal Guide
In-app purchases
1TVPLAY
No in-app purchases
AReal Guide
No in-app purchases
