Newcastle Herald vs EFTM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Newcastle Herald
Access local news and breaking updates from your region. Stay informed with daily newspaper replicas, sports results, and in-depth analysis. Save articles for later and receive alerts for important stories.
- Breaking news updates 24/7
- Browse articles by topic
- Save articles for later
- Breaking news alerts
- Digital newspaper replica
- Daily interactive puzzles
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The Newcastle Herald app brings together the best of your daily newspaper and its website to take your local news experience to another level. As the Hunter’s trusted voice, we keep you up to date seven days a week with news that’s important to our community. Whether it's the breaking news you need to know from around the region or across the nation, the latest Knights, Jets or other sporting results, in-depth analysis explaining the decisions and events affecting our lives, or incisive commentary, you will be the first to know using the Newcastle Herald app. The app is free to download, but you need to be a Newcastle Herald digital subscriber to read articles. Features include: - Access to breaking news updates 24 hours-a-day - Browse the latest articles in the topics that interest you most - Save articles to read later - Alerts for breaking news and big stories - Read a digital replica of the day's newspaper - Play our daily interactive puzzles Please note: This app features Nielsen's proprietary measurement software which will allow you to contribute to market research or audience ratings services. Please see http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy for more information.
EFTM
Access the latest Australian tech, car, and lifestyle news and reviews. Customize your iPhone home screen with widgets to see new stories instantly and receive notifications. Get a free unique code for competitions.
- Tech, Cars & Lifestyle News
- Home Screen Widgets
- Customizable Notifications
- Free Competition Codes
- Australian Focus
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EFTM is the home of Tech, Cars and Lifestyle news and reviews in Australia. The EFTM app is a simple app to allow you to add Widgets to your iPhone home screen so you can see new stories as they appear, get notifications as you choose, and also obtain your free EFTMID to use as a unique code in EFTM competitions!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EFTM at none against Newcastle Herald's 4. EFTM also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Newcastle Herald's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. Newcastle Herald sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. EFTM asks for nothing beyond the download.
EFTM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Newcastle Herald has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Newcastle Herald's written reviews are positive against 73% of EFTM's.
Newcastle Herald ships an update every 3 months, EFTM every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Newcastle Herald | EFTM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.7% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rural Press Pty Ltd | EFTM |
Customer experience
Newcastle Herald
EFTM
In-app purchases
Newcastle Herald
- Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
- Monthly subscription$14.991 Month
- Premium Annual$129.991 Year
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- Annual subscription$129.991 Year
EFTM
No in-app purchases
