Comparison

X vs Reddit

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

Head to head
About

X

Connect with a global community in real-time for breaking news, live events, and conversations. Share your thoughts, discover trending topics, and engage with diverse perspectives. Features include an AI assistant, live audio/video, and private messaging.

Highlights
  • Real-time breaking news updates
  • Post thoughts, photos, and videos
  • AI assistant for news summaries
  • Live audio and video streaming
  • Direct messaging with connections
  • Community building around interests
Features
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X (formerly Twitter) is a social media app where you can follow breaking news, live events, and trending topics as they happen. Sports, tech, music, politics: whatever you're into, the conversation starts here, raw and unfiltered. It's also a place to be heard. Post your take on the day's news, go live, and grow an audience for whatever you create. Millions of people come to X every day to find out what's happening and talk about it. WHAT YOU CAN DO ON X - Follow breaking news – Get news from around the world before it hits the headlines, with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations. - Post to a global community – Share your thoughts, photos, and videos. Join millions of users shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations. - Ask Grok – Grok is the AI assistant powered by X's real-time data. Ask Grok to summarize trending news, explain videos, or give you more context about posts. Grok also powers the photo and video editing tools in the app. - Create original videos – The built-in Video Editor and Recorder lets you shoot, add multi-language captions, apply green screen effects, and post pro-level content directly in the app. - Go live on video – Stream a concert, a live game, or your thoughts on a hot topic, and keep your audience engaged with enhanced livestream tools. - Watch video and podcasts – From live breaking news and sports clips to podcasts and gaming sessions up to 3 hours long. Many of the world's leading voices in comedy, gaming, podcasting, and politics share their content on X. - Host live audio with Spaces – Spaces is X's audio feature for hosting discussions, holding interviews, or starting your next live podcast. - Message privately – Connect and chat with friends, followers, customers, or collaborators through Direct Messages. - Pin Custom Timelines – Custom Timelines are Grok-powered topic feeds you can pin for the topics you follow most. - Turn on Priority Notifications – Priority Notifications surface your key interactions first. - Open your History tab – The History tab is one unified place for your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles. - Subscribe to X Premium – X Premium unlocks a blue checkmark, boosted visibility, prioritized replies, fewer ads, longer videos, and post editing. It also gives you creator revenue sharing and the ability to offer exclusive content to subscribers. WHO X IS FOR X is for people who follow breaking news and live events in real time, for sports, tech, music, and politics fans, for creators and podcasters who stream and create original video content for an audience, and for anyone building a community around gaming, entertainment, crypto, entrepreneurship, or tech. WHY X? In a world of constant change, X is your real-time source to stay ahead of the curve, connect with people, explore diverse perspectives, and create standout content. From breaking live news and trending memes to top podcasts, live streams, and original videos from your favorite creators, X brings it all together in one powerful social experience. Privacy Policy: https://x.com/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://x.com/tos

About

Reddit

Discover trending topics, engage in diverse discussions, and join communities for any interest. Share content, ask questions, and connect with others through a unique voting system that highlights popular posts.

Highlights
  • Thousands of community groups
  • Breaking news and trends
  • Humorous content and videos
  • Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions
  • In-depth discussion threads
  • Q&A forums
  • Upvote/downvote system
Features
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Reddit is where millions of real people gather to talk, ask and debate across 100,000+ communities, from breaking news and sports to gaming, finance, and every hobby in between. Trending topics, deep-dive discussions and comment threads where real people go deeper than you'd expect on the stuff they love. Whatever you're into, there's a community that gets it. What can you do on Reddit? Reddit is built around communities, or subreddits, which are forums where real people post, comment, ask questions, and reply. You'll find gaming communities, meme-makers, travel enthusiasts, support groups, AI forums, news followers, artists, sports fans, exciting AMAs , and creators of every kind. Everything on Reddit happens inside subreddits — What are Subreddits? Communities built around a specific topic, from r/worldnews to r/TodayILearned, where real people post, comment, and discuss. There are more than 100,000 subreddits, so whatever you're into, there are real people already talking about it. - r/AskReddit, where 50M people are ready to answer anything on your mind — real people who've been there too. - r/sports, the ultimate front-row seat for game-winning plays, daily sports talk, and major league updates - r/funny, full of humor, memes, and content made to make you laugh - r/science, for real scientific discussion and news - r/gaming, join 46M gamers to swap tips and share what you're playing What do people use Reddit for? People come to Reddit to: - Find communities for everything. Breaking news, sports highlights, TV fan theories, open AI discussions, and personalized content. There really is a community for everyone. - Get loads of laughs. Memes, oddly satisfying clips, and funny videos to help you happily lose track of time. - Join AMAs, or ""Ask Me Anything"". Celebrities, series creators, and experts answer real questions from real people in live sessions. - Follow honest discussions on any topic. Pop culture, sports, entertainment, finance. People jump in with humor and insight on just about anything. - Get answers to your questions. Ask communities about relationships, mental health, parenting, careers, fitness, and more. - Find your people. Jump into threads, connect over any topic, and chat with redditors who share your interests. Got questions? We've got you Is Reddit free? Yes. Reddit is free to download and use. Reddit Premium is an optional paid upgrade. How do upvotes and karma work? Instead of likes and hearts, Reddit runs on upvotes and downvotes. Voting raises or lowers a post's visibility, so relevant, high-quality posts rise to the top while low-effort ones fade out. Voting also affects karma, a running score tied to your posts and comments. Karma doesn't limit what you can do, but more of it can help your posts get noticed, and some communities ask for a little karma before you post or comment to help keep out spam. Reddit Premium: Purchase Reddit Premium to enjoy an ads-free experience and access to premium avatar gear, r/lounge, custom app icons, and more. Payment will be charged on a recurring monthly or annual basis to your Apple account. Your monthly or annual Premium subscription will automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before your subscription ends. Cancel anytime in your device's Account Settings. No partial refunds. Privacy Policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy User Agreement: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement Reddit Rules: https://redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules If you have any problems with the app, get support at RedditHelp.com

Screenshots

X4 screens
Reddit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: X at 44% against Reddit's 26%. X also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days) and device support (4 vs 2). Reddit's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. X sells 25 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month and Reddit sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reddit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11M and 3.5M respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of X's written reviews are positive against 26% of Reddit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X ships an update every 3 days, Reddit every 6 days. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
X versus Reddit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXReddit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11M ratings)4.8 (3.5M ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews — better25.5% of reviews
Number of ratings11M — better3.5M
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better#3
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size619 MB426 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperX Corp.REDDIT, INC.

Customer experience

X

All ratings11,054,517 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews15,171 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative50.5%

Reddit

All ratings3,501,105 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews9,409 reviews
Positive25.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative69.6%

User reviews

X

From 11M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient platform
  • 💡 Diverse range of content and discussions
  • 👍 Useful for news and information sharing
  • 🌐 Global connectivity and exchange of ideas

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and technical issues
  • 🤖 Proliferation of bots and spam accounts
  • 🔒 Concerns over censorship and lack of free speech
  • 💰 Paywalled features and monetization efforts

Reddit

From 3.5M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fantastic news aggregator
  • 👍 Diverse communities
  • 🔍 Helpful for finding information
  • 💡 Customizable feeds
  • 🎨 Unique avatar customization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy video player
  • 🤖 Aggressive recommendation algorithms
  • 💬 Toxic community moderation
  • 🔍 Difficult to find specific content
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns

Bugs and requests

X

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Account suspension and lockout issues
  • Inconsistent app performance and UI changes
  • Unreliable notification system
  • Inability to view deleted or suspended accounts

Requested features

4 requests
  • Edit tweet option
  • Improved content moderation and enforcement of rules
  • Customizable feed and better user control over content
  • Enhanced privacy and data protection measures

Reddit

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent app crashes
  • Unreliable content loading
  • Inconsistent UI behavior
  • Notification issues
  • Subreddit search function not working

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved video player controls
  • Better content filtering options
  • Streamlined community management tools
  • Customizable notification settings
  • Integrated browser for seamless browsing

In-app purchases

25 purchases

X

Subscriptions23
  • @FatKidDeals Subscription$1.001 Month
  • @Rainmaker1973 Subscription$2.001 Month
  • @pulte Subscription$2.991 Month
Show 20 more
  • @Zirksee Subscription$2.991 Month
  • @TheBabylonBee Subscription$3.001 Month
  • @jacksonhinklle Subscription$3.001 Month
  • @DataRepublican Subscription$3.001 Month
  • @elonmusk Subscription$4.001 Month
  • X Premium Basic (Monthly)$4.001 Month
  • @stevewilldoit Subscription$5.001 Month
  • @robbystarbuck Subscription$5.001 Month
  • @MikeBenzCyber Subscription$5.001 Month
  • @RealAlexJones Subscription$5.001 Month
  • @C__Herridge Subscription$7.001 Month
  • @shellenberger Subscription$9.001 Month
  • @shreyas Subscription$9.991 Month
  • X Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$11.001 Month
  • @Jake__Wujastyk Subscription$14.001 Month
  • @Banana3Stocks Subscription$40.001 Month
  • X Premium Basic (Annual)$42.001 Year
  • X Premium Plus (Monthly)1 Month trial$50.001 Month
  • X Premium (Annual)$114.991 Year
  • X Premium Plus (Annual)$490.001 Year
One-time2
  • Promote Post for $25$25.00
  • Promote Post for $50$50.00
9 purchases

Reddit

Subscriptions2
  • Reddit Premium$6.991 Month
  • Reddit Annual Premium$59.991 Year
One-time7
  • Reddit Gold$1.99
  • Reddit Gold$3.99
  • Collectible Avatar - Tier 4992 variants$4.99
Show 4 more
  • Reddit Gold$5.99
  • Reddit Gold$9.99
  • Collectible Avatar - Tier 9993 variants$9.99
  • Collectible Avatar - Tier 24992 variants$24.99

Questions

Is X free?
X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reddit free?
Reddit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, X or Reddit?
Reddit is rated higher. X averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11M ratings, while Reddit averages 4.8 from 3.5M ratings.
Do X or Reddit have ads?
Both X and Reddit show ads.
Which is updated more often, X or Reddit?
X ships an update every 3 days, and Reddit every 6 days. Most recently, X was updated on September 24, 2026 and Reddit on September 24, 2026.
Which is more popular, X or Reddit?
X currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Reddit at #3. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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