Dial Plate vs xREL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dial Plate
Experience a blast from the past with a retro-style rotary dialer. This app accurately dials telephone numbers and allows you to call them, all while providing an authentic 20th-century feel.
- Retro rotary dialer interface
- Original sound effects
- Accurate dialing
- Call dialed numbers
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Turn back in time! With the rotary dialer in retro-style you can send your iPhone back in the 20th century! Features: • original sound effect • accurate dialing of the telephone number • call of the dialed number
xREL
Access movie release dates and game NFO graphics on the go. Receive push notifications for categories or personal favorites, and manage your content with custom filters and themes. It's an information platform for NFO graphics, not for illegal downloads.
- Push notifications for categories
- Personalized favorite notifications
- Discover upcoming movie releases
- View Scene and P2P NFOs
- Filter and search database
- Multiple light and dark themes
- Manage favorites and mark as read
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This app puts the information from xREL.to in your pocket: on iPhone, iPad and now on iPhone Duo with a dedicated layout for the unfolded display. When does a movie hit theaters? Is there already an NFO for your favorite series? Which scene and P2P releases just came out? The app shows you all of this at a glance. Features: - Push notifications for the categories you choose - Latest scene and P2P NFOs with ratings and comments - Quick filters for resolution, HDR and your own keywords, including exclusions - Keep track of theatrical releases and add them straight to your calendar - Product pages with plot, cast, trailers, images and streaming providers - Search the entire xREL.to database With your xREL.to account you also get: - Manage favorites lists and mark NFOs as read - Push notifications for your favorites, with personal filter lists - Use the overview filter you set up on xREL.to - Check your favorites lists for new NFOs IMPORTANT: Neither this app nor xREL.to offers any way to illegally download movies or other content. It is purely an information platform specializing in so-called NFO graphics. This is not an official xREL app. The developer is not affiliated with the xREL.to team in any way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dial Plate at none against xREL's 3. Dial Plate also leads on ratings volume (95 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). xREL's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price, rating, ads 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. xREL sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dial Plate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dial Plate holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dial Plate has 95 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Dial Plate's written reviews are positive against 100% of xREL's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dial Plate ships an update every 9 months, xREL every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Dial Plate | xREL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (95 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dominic Rodemer | CrEaK-Webmedia |
Customer experience
Dial Plate
xREL
In-app purchases
Dial Plate
No in-app purchases
xREL
- Kleine Spende$0.99
- Mittlere Spende$2.99
- Große Spende$4.99
