Comparison

The Platform vs Tuia

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

Head to head
About

The Platform

Access live talk radio, video clips, podcasts, interviews, and opinions from an independent New Zealand media organization. Engage in open discussions and share your thoughts.

Highlights
  • Live talk radio
  • Video clips
  • Podcasts
  • Interviews
  • Opinions
  • Open discussion forum
Features
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The Platform is a New Zealand owned independent media organisation, headed by award winning journalist and broadcaster Sean Plunket. Live talk radio, video clips, podcasts, interviews and opinions to listen to, watch and read. Contribute to the open discussion we encourage and maintain on our dedicated apps.

About

Tuia

This app connects individuals through prayer, offering daily devotions, Bible readings, and personal prayer lists. Users can share prayers, follow others, join prayer groups, and access content in multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Daily devotions with Bible readings
  • Personal and shared prayer lists
  • Follow and pray for others
  • Community prayer groups
  • Multilingual content (Māori, Samoan, English)
  • Multiple Bible translations
Features
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Tuia is your daily prayer app. Tuia gathers people in prayer and reminds us that though we may be scattered (distant physically), we are one in prayer. For this purpose, the main features of Tuia are brought together in Daily Devotions, which weaves together Daily Devotions with Bible readings, your personal prayer list, shared prayers and more. Tuia makes it easy to: • Pray, write, and share prayers. • Keep a prayer private or share it with the community. • Follow others and pray for them. • Subscribe to community prayer lists. • Create or join a prayer group. • Be inspired with the included Bible readings and devotional content. The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is made up of three strands: Tikanga Māori, Tikanga Polynesia, and Tikanga Pākehā. These three strands are intended to honour different cultural ways of following Jesus. Tuia is intended to weave those strands together: to celebrate our languages and our prayers. The text of Daily Devotions is in Māori, Samoan and English. Set your primary language, then swipe the Daily Devotions text for quick access to the other languages. Woven into the Daily Devotions are the day’s Bible readings. The included Bible translations are • Te Paipera Tapu (MRI2012), • New Living Translation (NLT), and • New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). The daily readings follow the schedule published in Te Maramataka (The Lectionary) by the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. This schedule primarily follows the Revised Common Lectionary and Daily Eucharistic Lectionary, providing semi-continuous readings for the Old and New Testaments. The Revised Common Lectionary is a 3-year cycle used in many Christian churches, of differing traditions, throughout the world. On days where the Church remembers saints and martyrs, be inspired with short biographies and special Bible readings from For All the Saints. May all who encounter this app discover themselves bound to one another and woven into the One who gathers us all together: Weave, weave, weave us together, Tui, tui, tuituia mātou.

Screenshots

The Platform3 screens
Tuia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The Platform and Tuia both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tuia's written reviews are positive against 50% of The Platform's. Tuia also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Platform against 5.0 for Tuia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of The Platform's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tuia's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Platform ships an update every 6 weeks, Tuia every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Platform versus Tuia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe PlatformTuia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB118 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperNetbyteAnglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

Customer experience

The Platform

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative40.0%

Tuia

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Platform

No in-app purchases

None

Tuia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Platform free?
The Platform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tuia free?
Tuia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Platform or Tuia?
The Platform and Tuia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do The Platform or Tuia have ads?
Neither The Platform nor Tuia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Platform or Tuia?
The Platform ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tuia every 2 months. Most recently, The Platform was updated on October 2, 2026 and Tuia on October 3, 2026.

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