Fox Illinois vs PenLitics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fox Illinois
Stay informed with a personalized local news feed, real-time weather, and traffic updates. Receive instant alerts for breaking news and school closings.
- Live news stream
- Current weather and traffic
- Personalized news feed
- Breaking news alerts
- School closing alerts
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The Fox Illinois News app is faster, smarter, and more interactive than ever. Create a personalized local news feed and see up to the minute weather and traffic conditions. Features: • Live news stream • Current weather and traffic • Personalized news feed • Breaking news, weather, and school closing alerts
PenLitics
This app simplifies political education, explaining the significance of voting and identifying bias in news coverage. It aims to make understanding politics accessible to everyone.
- Political education
- Importance of voting
- Understanding political bias
- News analysis
- Simplified politics
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PenLitics is a political education app that teaches you the importance of politics, voting, and political bias in the news.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PenLitics at none against Fox Illinois's shown. PenLitics also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fox Illinois against 5.0 for PenLitics. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PenLitics has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Fox Illinois | PenLitics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Standard Media Group | PenLitics LLC |
Customer experience
Fox Illinois
PenLitics
In-app purchases
Fox Illinois
No in-app purchases
PenLitics
No in-app purchases
