ITmedia vs Hatena Bookmark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ITmedia
Access IT and business news from 14 specialized channels, including enterprise IT, AI, and smartphones. Download articles for offline reading in areas with weak signals. Content is exclusively in Japanese.
- 14 specialized IT news channels
- Offline article downloads
- Categorized news
- Enterprise IT news
- AI and smartphone news
- Business and marketing news
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*** PRECAUTION FOR NON-JAPANESE USERS *** All articles available in this application are provided only in Japanese. いつでもどこでもIT情報やネットの旬な話題をチェックしたい！ iPhoneの使いこなし、ネットの話題から、エンタープライズITニュースまで、IT専門ニュースのすべてが読めるアプリです。 記事本文を一括ダウンロードするので、電波の弱いところでも安心してサクサク閲覧が可能です（※）。 【収録チャンネル】 アイティメディアの14媒体（ITmedia、＠IT、MONOist、Fav-Log、AI＋等）の全ニュースを、分類して提供します。 ・注目記事 ・ニュース ・企業向けIT ・ITエンジニア/開発 ・IT製品導入 ・ビジネス ・マーケ ・AI＋ ・製造 ・エレクトロニクス ・建設 ・エネルギー ・スマートフォン ・ガジェット＆PC ・個人向け製品＆サービス選び ※ 記事内の画像や動画、および一部の特設記事の表示にはインターネット接続が必要です。 For inquiries please in Japanese.
Hatena Bookmark
Save and share Japanese news, blogs, and websites. Discover trending content, follow topics, and organize articles for later reading. Connect with friends and popular users within the service.
- Save and share web content
- Discover trending Japanese news
- Follow specific topics
- Read articles later
- Search bookmarks
- Connect with users
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Save and share Japanese news, blogs, or any websites you like, and read them at your leisure. The official app of Japan's largest bookmarking service. Over 250 million bookmarks and more than 10 million sites to enjoy. Features: • Enjoy various content in Japanese, from Japanese trends, to anime and manga news, to world events • Bookmark (follow) friends and popular users, and share your bookmarks • Add items to your Read Later list and read them at your leisure • Search every single bookmark, from funny animated GIFs to scholarly treatises • Set keywords that interest you, like "Kyoto," "gadgets," "movies," or "design," and follow those topics like RSS feeds • View the day's highlights—all the entries trending on Hatena Bookmark, rounded up automatically • Bookmark and read comments from apps like Safari, feedly, Pocket, and Medium
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hatena Bookmark at none against ITmedia's shown. Hatena Bookmark also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). ITmedia's advantage is review sentiment (31% vs 19%). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hatena Bookmark holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of ITmedia's written reviews are positive against 19% of Hatena Bookmark's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ITmedia ships an update every 3 months, Hatena Bookmark monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ITmedia | Hatena Bookmark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (15 ratings) | 4.8 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.0% of reviews — better | 18.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ITmedia Inc. | 株式会社はてな |
Customer experience
ITmedia
Hatena Bookmark
In-app purchases
ITmedia
No in-app purchases
Hatena Bookmark
No in-app purchases
Questions
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