Social News Network vs FreeThinker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Social News Network
This platform empowers both readers and creators to share and discover news as it happens. It provides a voice for aspiring and seasoned journalists to report on events around them.
- News reporting platform
- Reader and creator focused
- Real-time event capture
- Journalist voice amplification
- Global news dissemination
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SNN is a platform for readers and creators of News, giving aspiring and seasoned journalists a voice and a platform to capture news around them as it happens.
FreeThinker
This news reader app aggregates content from curated sources, catering to libertarian-minded individuals and offering broader political and topical feeds. It provides features like offline reading, article management, and customizable topic filtering for a personalized news experience.
- Aggregates libertarian and independent content
- Dozens of curated sources
- Hides or distinguishes seen articles
- Earmark articles to read later
- Topic filtering for content customization
- Offline reading mode
- Light and dark UI options
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By Libertarians, for Libertarians. FreeThinker. Welcome to FreeThinker, a new kind of RSS news reader app. Easy to use and fully featured, FreeThinker provides articles of interest to Libertarians, third-party enthusiasts and independent-minded individuals. Choose your news from a selection of curated sources that cater to your political point of view. Not a Libertarian? FreeThinker is still for you! The app offers additional sources across the political spectrum and across a variety of topics. Read feeds on technology, science, news, and more regardless of your point of view. Turn on feeds you like, disable those that you don’t. Check out all that FreeThinker can do: - Aggregates Libertarian and politically-independent content spread out across the Internet into one convenient place - your device! - Provides dozens of curated sources for you to choose from, including content from the leading Libertarian-oriented media and public policy organizations. - Keeps track of what you read and provides options to hide or distinguish seen articles in your feed content. - Allows you to earmark articles to read later, or click through to see the content on the respective websites. - Collects and aggregates topics connected to each article, allowing you to choose which topics you’d like to see more of - or less. - Delivers details about the sources you choose, and toggle them on or off, augmenting your feed. - Creates an accessible-friendly experience with numerous text size options that work with or without your device’s accessibility settings. - Offers light and dark UI, tied to your device settings or your personal preference. - Adds a sharing interface for you to send articles to others on demand. - Works automatically in offline mode, to read existing content when your device has no connection. - Caches images and other items to reduce network load and improve performance. - Auto-cleans its content to save storage space on your device over time. - And there’s more in store! Have ideas on how to improve FreeThinker? Drop us a line at letsgo@lucindigital.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FreeThinker at fortnightly against Social News Network's every 9 months. Social News Network's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Social News Network against 5.0 for FreeThinker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Social News Network ships an update every 9 months, FreeThinker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social News Network | FreeThinker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | OneBarrow Corporation | Lucin Digital Services LLC |
Customer experience
Social News Network
FreeThinker
In-app purchases
Social News Network
No in-app purchases
FreeThinker
No in-app purchases
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