Canoe.com vs CHEK Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canoe.com
Access curated news and deals on shopping, travel, tech, and entertainment. Personalize your feed with favorite writers and trending stories from across Canada. Stay informed with product reviews, gift ideas, and exclusive offers.
- Customizable content feed
- Trending stories discovery
- Personalized topic selection
- Product reviews and news
- Deal alerts for shopping and travel
- Cross-platform user recognition
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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
CHEK Mobile
Access local news, weather forecasts, sports updates, and community events. Stream live broadcasts and on-demand video content. Receive breaking news alerts for Vancouver Island communities.
- Local news updates
- Weather forecasts
- Sports highlights
- Events calendar
- Live streams
- Video on demand
- Breaking news notifications
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The CHEK Mobile app is your source for local news and information, weather, sports, events calendar, livestreams, video on demand, and more! We’ve rolled CHEK+ live streams and on-demand video newscasts into this app as well. Get all your favourite CHEK shows and news in one app! Get push notifications of breaking news, watch video, and read the latest stories from Vancouver Island communities including: Victoria, Saanich, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich Peninsula, West Shore, Sooke, Malahat, Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Oceanside, Comox Valley, Campbell River, Alberni, Tofino, Sayward, Port McNeill, Port Hardy and everywhere in between. Get sports highlights from Donnie and Dhali, including the Canucks, WHL Royals, the BCHL, Shamrocks, Harbourcats, UVic Vikes and more. You can also find out how to contact us if you have breaking news, want to provide feedback or advertise.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CHEK Mobile at none against Canoe.com's shown. CHEK Mobile also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Canoe.com's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Canoe.com ships an update monthly, CHEK Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Canoe.com | CHEK Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Postmedia Network Inc. | CHEK News |
Customer experience
Canoe.com
CHEK Mobile
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
CHEK Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Canoe.com
No in-app purchases
CHEK Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Canoe.com free?
Is CHEK Mobile free?
Do Canoe.com or CHEK Mobile have ads?
Which is updated more often, Canoe.com or CHEK Mobile?
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