Forbes vs daily.dev
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forbes
Access actionable business news, in-depth reporting, and market insights across entrepreneurship, investing, and technology. Stay informed with breaking news, curated content, and powerful search tools to navigate a rapidly evolving world.
- Actionable business news
- In-depth reporting
- Market-moving insights
- Breaking news alerts
- Tabbed content channels
- Enhanced search functionality
- Article saving
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Download the Forbes app for actionable business news, insights, and trusted journalism—now with enhanced search, intuitive navigation, and the ability to save articles. Stay up to date on the stories that shape industries, change landscapes, and define conversations, with bold and in-depth reporting across entrepreneurship, business, investing, technology, and more. Immerse yourself in market-moving insights, cutting-edge strategies, and timely analysis trusted by the world's top leaders and trailblazers shaping the global economy. Key Features: • Home feed with popular content, daily cover story, and editors picks. Designed to keep you updated with the most important news of the day. • Breaking news. Follow live stories unfolding in real-time. More to explore with infinite scroll for easy access to past news. • A refreshed layout featuring tabbed channels for easier browsing across all content, making it easy to find the content that matters most to you. • Smarter, faster search to help you instantly discover articles, topics, and breaking news. • Article saving. Easily access all your favorite stories, wherever you are. For more than a century, Forbes been the authoritative voice in business, providing the insight and analysis needed to navigate a rapidly evolving world, empowering those who shape what’s next to think even bigger and better. With the Forbes app, you have the intelligence, knowledge, inspiration and tools necessary to achieve success. By downloading the Forbes app, you accept and agree to our Terms of Service and you acknowledge our Privacy Statement. Forbes Terms of Service: https://www.forbes.com/terms/ Forbes Privacy Policy: https://www.forbes.com/fdc/privacy.html
daily.dev
Get a personalized feed of developer news, articles, and discussions tailored to your interests. Discover new tools and insights across AI, React, DevOps, and more from thousands of sources.
- Personalized developer feed
- AI-powered content curation
- Community discussions (Squads)
- Bookmarks and reading streaks
- Developer profile
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Your whole dev world, distilled into one personalized feed. daily.dev pulls the best engineering articles, tutorials, and discussions from 2,000+ trusted sources — including the GitHub Blog, Dev.to, freeCodeCamp, and hundreds more — then AI and a community of over a million developers cut it down to what actually matters for your stack. Signal, not noise. The more you read, the sharper it gets. It learns from you, and from what a million other developers find worth reading. :trophy: Product Hunt — Golden Kitty Award winner :star: 18,000+ GitHub stars, fully open source at github.com/dailydotdev WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU OPEN THE APP :one: Your feed is already yours. Technical articles, tutorials, and community discussions from 2,000+ sources, matched to your stack from the start. :two: Caught up in minutes, not hours. AI summarizes the noise away and a million developers upvote the good stuff to the top — so you read what's worth reading and skip the rest. :three: Every article is a conversation. See what other engineers think, add your take, and learn from the comments — the real insight is often there. :four: A calm daily habit. Build a reading streak, unlock achievements, and grow a developer profile over time. Come back because it's useful, not because it nags. :five: Find your people. Join a Squad around React, DevOps, AI, cloud, mobile, open source — or anything you care about. Share links, start discussions, learn together. Public or private. :bulb: WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT Most tools in this space are glorified RSS readers or pure-algorithm feeds. daily.dev is different because the community is built in. Developers upvote articles, which teaches the system what actually matters — not just what's new, but what's good. Discussions add context you can't get from reading alone. Squads create focused curation around every topic and language. And AI personalizes on top of all of it, matched to your specific stack. Think of it as a feed curated by a senior engineer who shares your exact interests. :hammer_and_wrench: FEATURES (all free) • Personalized reading from 2,000+ sources, powered by AI + community signals • Multiple views: Popular, Upvoted, Discussed, Following • Custom feeds for different interests and stacks • Squads — communities around any topic • Reading streaks, achievements, and leaderboards • DevCard — a shareable developer identity card • Bookmarks with folders • Search across millions of posts • Dark mode and light mode • Syncs seamlessly across all your devices :dart: WHO IT'S FOR • Developers who want what matters without opening 10 sites every morning • Engineers who learn better when they can see what peers think is worth reading • Anyone who wants a daily reading habit that builds over time • Teams that share and discuss technical articles in private Squads :gem: daily.dev Plus Unlock premium features: • Presidential Briefing — a personal agent scans the landscape daily, analyzes 100+ posts, and delivers one concise briefing • Smart Titles — rewrites clickbait headlines so you know what you're actually clicking • Clickbait Shield — detects and replaces misleading titles automatically
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Forbes at 4.8 against daily.dev's 4.3. Forbes also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (85% vs 68%). 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. Forbes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and daily.dev sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Forbes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 165 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Forbes's written reviews are positive against 68% of daily.dev's.
Forbes ships an update every 3 weeks, daily.dev every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forbes | daily.dev |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (165 ratings) — better | 4.3 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better | 68.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 165 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #171 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forbes Media LLC | Daily Dev Ltd |
Customer experience
Forbes
daily.dev
Bugs and requests
Forbes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
daily.dev
Reported bugs
2 issues- Buttons not working
- Unable to sign up
Requested features
1 request- Web app option
In-app purchases
Forbes
- Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$89.001 Year
daily.dev
- Monthly$14.991 Month
- Annual Special$59.991 Year
- Annual$89.991 Year
- 100 Cores$1.49
- 300 Cores$4.49
- 600 Cores$8.99
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- 1,200 Cores$17.99
- 2,400 Cores$34.99
- 5,000 Cores$72.99
- 8,000 Cores$114.99
- 12,000 Cores$174.99
- 25,000 Cores$364.99
- 50,000 Cores$549.00
- 100,000 Cores$999.99









