Cascade PBS vs MNBG
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascade PBS
Stream prestige dramas, landmark documentaries, inspiring nature, and science programs. Access PBS favorites, local original series, and international content from a nonprofit streaming service for the Pacific Northwest. Enhance your viewing with an extended library through membership.
- Prestige dramas
- Landmark documentaries
- Nature and science programming
- Local original series
- International programming
- Extended library with membership
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Prestige dramas, landmark documentaries, inspiring nature, science and more! Enjoy your PBS favorites, local original series and a unique collection of international programming with this nonprofit streaming service for the Pacific Northwest, Cascade PBS. Catch up on recently aired PBS shows or become a Cascade PBS Passport member to discover an extended library of popular programs, including the best in science, nature, history, documentary, arts and drama.
MNBG
Explore native and canoe Hawaiian plants with this self-guided audio tour. Learn about their cultural, historical, and ecological significance at your own pace. Access plant information via QR codes or alphabetical lookup.
- Self-guided audio tours
- Native and canoe plant information
- Cultural and ecological context
- QR code plant identification
- Alphabetical plant lookup
- 5-acre garden exploration
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This self-guided audio tour helps give context to the native and canoe Hawaiian plants growing at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens in Kahului, Hawaii. Explore the 5-acre Gardens at your own pace to appreciate the plants for their value to Hawaii culture, history, and ecology. Plant I.D. signs have QR codes accessible by the scan and find button or look up plants alphabetically by name. Ethnobotany emphasizes the relationships that exist between people and plants. For example, as foods; as medicines; in divination; in cosmetics; in dyeing; as textiles; in construction; as tools and other household items; as currency; as clothing; in literature; in rituals; and in social life and recreation. Conservation emphasizes the environmental conditions in which each plant thrives and its role in Hawaiian ecology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MNBG at 100% against Cascade PBS's 17%. MNBG also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Cascade PBS's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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.
MNBG holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cascade PBS has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Cascade PBS's written reviews are positive against 100% of MNBG's.
Cascade PBS ships an update every 2 months, MNBG every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cascade PBS | MNBG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (30 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KCTS TELEVISION | Maui Nui Botanical Gardens Inc. |
Customer experience
Cascade PBS
MNBG
In-app purchases
Cascade PBS
No in-app purchases
MNBG
No in-app purchases
