CompBuddy vs Channels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CompBuddy
This app helps you monitor your current total compensation and analyze job offers. You can model salary and stock growth, track historical earnings, and project future compensation packages up to eight years out. It requires no registration and is completely free to use.
- Track current total compensation
- Analyze and compare job offers
- Model salary and stock growth
- Project compensation up to 8 years
- No registration required
- No ads or subscriptions
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CompBuddy is a free to use app that helps people monitor their current total compensation as well as track, analyze, and compare job offers. No registration is required, and there are no ads or subscriptions. This app can be used in multiple ways: -As a current employee, you can use it to track how much you currently make at your job. You can model salary and stock growth and see what total compensation looks like over time. You can even make a new package each year to keep historical data on how much you have made. -If you're looking for a job, you can use this app to keep tabs on the different companies you are interviewing with. You can add notes on important deadlines, as well as begin to fill in compensation information as you get offers in hand with numbers. Then you can project these numbers out up to 8 years to see what the full package picture looks like over time, again adding in factors such as estimated salary and stock growth. -Just have fun with it! Play with the numbers and see what breakdown of salary/bonus/stock/other factors gets you to the numbers you want.
Channels
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Channels is a real-time chart + community app for traders. ◆ Live charts — Exchange-direct WebSocket prices with no middleman. Pick from 11 spot and 7 futures exchanges and explore from 1-minute to monthly candles with smooth zoom and pan. Dark trading UI and long/short ratio. ◆ Signals — Cards point out the coins that are moving right now: volume bursts, resistance levels being tested, each with a mini chart and a one-line reason. Built from public market data, not investment advice. ◆ Chart drawings — Trend lines, Fibonacci and more. Publish your analysis on your profile, or copy another trader's drawing onto your own chart and continue from there (original author credited). ◆ Per-coin live chat — Talk in real time in the country channel of the coin you're watching. Switch into chat mode right on top of the chart. ◆ Home community — Post text and photos with coin tags, vote up/down, and discuss in comments. Posts from traders you follow come first. ◆ Market — Crypto plus tokenized stocks and commodities, ranked by both 24-hour and last-5-minute volume. ◆ Watchlist — Everything you're tracking in its own tab. ◆ Messages — 1:1 and group conversations, with photos, search and pinning. ◆ 21 languages — Posts in other languages are translated on your device. Channels has no trading, wallet, deposit or withdrawal features. Nothing in the app is investment advice; all investment decisions are the user's own responsibility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CompBuddy at none against Channels's shown. CompBuddy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Channels's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 months). On price 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.
CompBuddy ships an update every 9 months, Channels every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CompBuddy | Channels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (66 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hemant Bhonsle | KI SOO HAN |
In-app purchases
CompBuddy
No in-app purchases
Channels
No in-app purchases









