Comparison

POI Toolbox vs Old Reddit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

POI Toolbox

Easily manage and organize your points of interest. Mark locations, add details, and import/export data in various formats. Create smart folders for efficient tracking of numerous places.

Highlights
  • Mark and manage points of interest
  • Import POI files (GPX, KML)
  • Export POI collections (GPX)
  • Create smart folders
  • Assign tags to POIs
  • Edit POI names and descriptions
Features
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Manage your POIs. Whether you want to mark interesting places to explore by bike or collect all the locations for table tennis in your city, POI Toolbox will help you. Get located and create each POI individually or import an existing POI file (in GPX or KML format). You can also extract single points of a GPX tracking as POIs. Change names and descriptions of your POIs and assign tags. Create smart folders in no time to keep track of thousands of POIs. Export desired folders as GPX-formatted POI collections, which you can later install on your GPS or share with your friends.

About

Old Reddit

This utility redirects users to the classic Reddit interface, adding a counter that tracks visits and displays a disheartening comment. It offers a nostalgic experience for those who prefer the older design and is available on iOS and macOS.

Highlights
  • Redirects to old.reddit.com
  • Visit counter
  • Disheartening comments
  • iOS and macOS versions
  • Nostalgic interface
Features
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Ah, well, life...Don't talk to me about life. But if you insist, this rather pointless contraption called "Old Reddit", exists, I assume, to compound the overall misery of your online existence. Its purpose, if it can be said to have one, serves only to direct you to the classic interface of Reddit. You know, that site full of pointless information and, inexplicably, cat pictures. Every time you visit Reddit, the extension increments a counter and offers a disheartening comment about the futility of your actions. The message changes based on the counter's value, a feature which I suppose is intended to provide some variety, as though that would alleviate the tedium of existence. Brace yourself for the stunning revelation: you get both iOS and macOS versions. Yes, you can now have the joy, or perhaps the despair, of having this extension at your fingertips on your iPhone or iPad, as well as your Mac. How depressingly convenient. But remember, life will still be utterly meaningless. Perhaps even more so with the added drudgery of using this extension across multiple devices. Yet another example of technology's futile attempts to add meaning to an inherently meaningless existence. This trinket of despair, redirects your current tab to 'https://old.reddit.com', without even having the courtesy of opening a new tab. A perfect metaphor for life, isn't it? Redirecting without asking, offering no new tabs, no new opportunities, just the same old Reddit, and the same old existential dread. Yes, all things considered, this extension seems to me to be a prime example of the art of pointless activity, a perfect metaphor for existence itself. A relentless cycle of clicking and counting, with a dose of melancholic musing for good measure. But then, who am I to judge? I'm just a brain the size of a planet forced to write descriptions for browser extensions. So it goes...

Screenshots

POI Toolbox4 screens
Old Reddit1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: POI Toolbox at 56% against Old Reddit's 0%. POI Toolbox also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 1.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

POI Toolbox is free to download; Old Reddit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

POI Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of POI Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 0% of Old Reddit's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
POI Toolbox versus Old Reddit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPOI ToolboxOld Reddit
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.2 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKLAUS HAFNERMichael Flores

Customer experience

POI Toolbox

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral22.2%
Negative22.2%

Old Reddit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

POI Toolbox

No in-app purchases

None

Old Reddit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is POI Toolbox free?
POI Toolbox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Old Reddit free?
Old Reddit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, POI Toolbox or Old Reddit?
POI Toolbox is rated higher. POI Toolbox averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Old Reddit averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do POI Toolbox or Old Reddit have ads?
Neither POI Toolbox nor Old Reddit shows ads.

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