Comparison

Canoe.com vs Voyent Alert!

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

Head to head
About

Canoe.com

Access curated news and reviews on shopping, travel, tech, and entertainment. Personalize your feed with favorite writers and topics. Discover trending stories and exclusive features from across Canada.

Highlights
  • Customizable news feed
  • Product reviews and news
  • Gift idea search
  • Deal alerts
  • Trending stories discovery
  • Personalized content selection
Features
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Canoe is your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. Create your custom feed so you don’t miss the latest from your favourite writers. Stay up to date with product reviews and news, search for great gift ideas and get alerted to the best deals, including deals on travel. Features include: • Stay connected to your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. • You will be prompted to choose your preferred content when you first open the new app, ensuring a curated news feed that aligns with your interests. • Use the Discover tab to explore trending stories from Postmedia newsrooms across Canada • Personalize your news experience by selecting topics, journalists and columnists you care about, so your feed will be filled with the content and perspectives you enjoy. • As a registered user, you are recognized consistently across web and app platforms for a more cohesive experience. Register to sample the wide variety of breaking news and special features — plus extensive photo and video coverage. Home delivery print subscribers receive unlimited access, included as part of their print subscription and can gain access by simply signing in with their existing account when prompted. If you’re not an existing print subscriber, you can easily subscribe to the app through the App Store for iOS devices. Privacy policy: https://www.postmedia.com/privacy-statement/ Terms of use: https://www.postmedia.com/terms-and-conditions/ We appreciate and value your feedback. Please send any comments, suggestions or questions to: appfeedback@postmedia.com

About

Voyent Alert!

Receive critical event and general communications from local governments and organizations. Notifications are customized for your followed locations, offering contextual information like direction and distance to events, along with enriched media.

Highlights
  • Customized notifications by location
  • Critical event alerts
  • General day-to-day communications
  • Direction and distance to events
  • Enriched media (images, PDFs, links)
  • Concise and relevant information
Features
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Voyent Alert! is a smart notification service that enables users to receive critical event and general day-to-day communications from participating municipalities, regional governments and organizations. The Voyent Alert! communications are customized for each user’s followed locations (e.g. "Home", "Work", "Kid's School", "Mobile Phone"). Users can be provided with notifications containing greater situational context, such as direction and distance to a critical event based on their location as well as enriched media such as images, PDFs and hyperlinks to more information. Voyent Alert! provides concise information when you require it and ensures you are not saturated with notifications that are not relevant to you. Stay Alert. Stay Connected.

Screenshots

Canoe.com4 screens
Voyent Alert!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Voyent Alert! at none against Canoe.com's shown. Voyent Alert! also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and review sentiment (17% vs 8%). Canoe.com's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Canoe.com ships an update monthly, Voyent Alert! every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Canoe.com versus Voyent Alert!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanoe.comVoyent Alert!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.3% of reviews16.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—81 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPostmedia Network INC.ICEsoft Technologies Inc.

Customer experience

Canoe.com

Written reviews60 reviews
Positive8.3%
Neutral1.7%
Negative90.0%

Voyent Alert!

All ratings81 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

Canoe.com

Reported bugs

116 issues
  • App keeps crashing
  • App never loads up
  • App freezes
  • App never updates
  • App freezes
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  • Black screen after clicking article
  • App seems to freeze
  • Issues loading
  • Won't load
  • Blank screen after clicking article
  • Constantly acting up
  • Application freezing
  • Freezes when scrolling
  • Locks up
  • Sloooow
  • Crashes
  • Can't open any news
  • Picture loads, text doesn't
  • App frozen
  • Terrible App
  • Full of bugs
  • Useless
  • Fix the problems
  • App always freezes
  • Articles go blank
  • Phone locks up
  • Constantly not working
  • Does not load
  • Glitchy
  • App goes through two screens
  • Screen stops
  • Keeps Crashing
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Getting stuck
  • Won't load stories
  • Slow to respond to scrolling
  • Freeze altogether
  • Slow and takes many seconds to react
  • App freezes since iOS 15 update
  • Latest update freezes
  • Articles have white background
  • New version crashes
  • Reboots iPhone
  • Useless app now
  • Black screen since update
  • No fix for black screen
  • App unusable
  • Crashing
  • Since last release unable to use
  • Phone crashes after update
  • App unusable
  • Won't open article
  • Crashes phone
  • Horrible
  • Can't read articles
  • Black screen
  • Stories all blank since last update
  • Broken on iOS
  • Crashes
  • Reboots phone
  • Latest update won't show stories
  • Blank screen when selecting story
  • Broken
  • Won't open any articles
  • Broken
  • Loads home page but locks up on article click
  • Crashes entire phone
  • Makes phone reboot
  • Emails to developers don't send
  • Crashes after update
  • Causes phone to freeze
  • Reboot
  • Crashing and Rebooting
  • Screen goes black with toolbar
  • Screen freezes
  • iPhone becomes unresponsive
  • iPhone reboots
  • Freezes and reboots iPhone
  • Always freezes
  • Crash
  • Phone freezing up
  • Broken
  • App is a piece of garbage
  • Shut down phone when clicking headline
  • Phone crash
  • Making iPhone crash
  • Update is awful
  • Most articles don't open
  • Black screen
  • Currently unusable
  • Restarts phone every time article clicked
  • Content not available on mobile
  • Crashes now
  • iPhone and iPad shut down and restart
  • App freezes up
  • Won't load any headline
  • Page remains blank
  • Update sucks!
  • App doesn't open properly
  • iPad keeps freezing when opening news stories
  • Crash
  • Makes iPhone crash
  • App not working
  • Unable to read articles
  • Broken
  • Broke ability to see titles
  • Can't read
  • Unable to read any headline
  • Black text on black images
  • Freezes
  • Needs to be reloaded each use
  • Continually freezes
  • Since iOS 13 update, app freezes
  • Unstable
  • Program crashes regularly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Include Canadian Press and 24H news sources
  • Promote stories written by Canadians
  • Add video content
  • Offer regional news tickers

Voyent Alert!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Canoe.com

No in-app purchases

None

Voyent Alert!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Canoe.com free?
Canoe.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Voyent Alert! free?
Voyent Alert! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Canoe.com or Voyent Alert! have ads?
Canoe.com shows ads; Voyent Alert! does not.
Which is updated more often, Canoe.com or Voyent Alert!?
Canoe.com ships an update monthly, and Voyent Alert! every 4 months. Most recently, Canoe.com was updated on November 6, 2026 and Voyent Alert! on November 6, 2026.

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