Raw Story vs EMV LLC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raw Story
Access award-winning investigative journalism and breaking news from a progressive perspective. This app delivers underreported stories and bold opinion pieces, along with daily games to engage users.
- Investigative reporting
- Breaking news
- Opinion columns
- Daily games
- Premium content access
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Popular. Fearless. Progressive. Raw Story is an investigative news website focused on the issues that matter and bringing underreported news to light. Raw Story delivers award-winning investigative reporting, breaking news and bold opinion columns to more than six million readers a month. Our new app includes an assortment of games — updated daily — to keep you sharp. It also allows you to subscribe in-app to get unlimited access to our premium content.
EMV LLC
This app consolidates news from multiple sources into a single platform, simplifying browsing. It fosters a community where users can create forums, upload multimedia, and chat live, with customizable avatars. The developers encourage user feedback for continuous improvement.
- Unified news feed
- Community forums
- Multimedia uploads
- Live chat
- Customizable avatars
- User suggestions
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Our team started EMV LLC with one mission. We did not want humans to be “ multi-EMV-websites users”. We want to simplify your browsing by letting use only ONE website and be able to follow us. For this, to work we built a website that displays all news. We had a big emphasis on creating a community, so, you are able to create your own forums, upload your own multimedia and chat live with other registered members. You can also create your own Avatar. We have put a lot of time and effort into making this website interactive with the hope of creating a community that will welcome real discussion, and help resolve problems a registered member might have ( by answering a question on a forum or maybe even answering it “live” via chat). We do realize that the website will not be perfect and therefore we WANT you to use the “suggestions “ tab on the website to let us know how we can evolve and help grow this community. Let’s look at it, learn from it, and debate it….
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EMV LLC at none against Raw Story's 2. EMV LLC also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Raw Story's advantage is ratings volume (4.7K vs 3) and chart position (#163 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Raw Story sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. EMV LLC asks for nothing beyond the download.
EMV LLC holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raw Story has 4.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Raw Story's written reviews are positive against 100% of EMV LLC's.
Raw Story ships an update every 6 weeks, EMV LLC fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raw Story | EMV LLC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.7K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #163 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | RawStoryMedia | olivier phliponeau |
Customer experience
Raw Story
EMV LLC
Bugs and requests
Raw Story
Reported bugs
3 issues- Repeated log-outs and login failures
- Compatibility issues with certain browsers
- Freezing and crashing on some devices
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved layout and readability
- Better integration with password managers
EMV LLC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Raw Story
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$6.991 Month
- Annual + Subscription1 Year trial$69.991 Year
EMV LLC
No in-app purchases
