MEGACADENA vs TheCable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MEGACADENA
Stay informed and actively participate in current events with this news application. It provides comprehensive options to keep you updated and involved in the news.
- Stay informed
- Participate in news
- Comprehensive options
- Interactive features
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Interacting with you life - Interactuando con tu vida. La MEGACADENA se acerca a tu vida para mantenerte informado, ofreciendote todas las opciones para que tu formes parte de las noticias MEGACADENA approaches your life to keep you informed, to give you all the options to become part of the news.
TheCable
Access Nigeria's leading journalism for progress, featuring breaking news, fact-checks, investigations, and lifestyle content. This app is Nigeria's first disability and inclusion news app, offering special assistive features for accessibility.
- Breaking news access
- Fact-checks and investigations
- Sports and lifestyle content
- Disability and inclusion focus
- Assistive features for accessibility
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TheCable App is a window to our knowledge-driven journalism in pursuit of Nigeria’s progress. It grants you easy access to all our breaking stories, fact-checks, investigations, sports, and Lifestyle content around and outside the country. This app goes further by embedding special assistive features that make it easily accessible to persons with different forms of disability. It is Nigeria’s first Disability and Inclusion News App. TheCable App is free to download and easy to use. It is our award-winning journalism at your fingertips. [:mav: 1.3.2]
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TheCable at every 5 weeks against MEGACADENA's every 13 months. TheCable also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). MEGACADENA's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TheCable holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MEGACADENA has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MEGACADENA ships an update every 13 months, TheCable every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MEGACADENA | TheCable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MEGACADENA S.A. | Jesupelumi Adetunji |
Customer experience
MEGACADENA
TheCable
In-app purchases
MEGACADENA
No in-app purchases
TheCable
No in-app purchases
