Today's Front Pages vs Wanderer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Today's Front Pages
Access hundreds of daily newspapers from around the globe. Discover front pages through search or an interactive map. New widgets allow favorite front pages to be displayed directly on your iOS home screen.
- Hundreds of daily newspapers worldwide
- Search newspapers by name
- Find newspapers by location on a map
- iOS 14 Widgets for homepage display
- Access to current front pages
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The Freedom Forum’s Today’s Front Pages app brings hundreds of daily newspapers from around the world. It now even includes new iOS14 Widgets so your favorite front pages also appear on your homepage! Search a newspaper by name or use the map to find it by location. U.S. copyright laws apply.
Wanderer
Access the complete weekly newspaper for Mattapoisett, Marion, and Rochester, Massachusetts, directly on your iOS device. Download individual issues or subscribe for automatic delivery of new content.
- Full weekly newspaper access
- Local news for Mattapoisett, Marion, Rochester
- On-demand issue downloads
- Automatic new issue downloads
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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The Wanderer app brings you the The Wanderer weekly newspaper, in its entirety, direct to your iOS device. The Wanderer publishes news for the Southeastern Massachusetts towns of Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester. Serving the communities of Marion, Mattpoisett and Rochester since 1992. Download issues on demand, or subscribe for free to have new issues automatically downloaded and ready to read. Supports all iPhone and iPad models.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Today's Front Pages at 4.7 against Wanderer's 3.0. Today's Front Pages also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (60% vs 33%). Wanderer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Today's Front Pages holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Today's Front Pages has 2K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Today's Front Pages's written reviews are positive against 33% of Wanderer's.
Today's Front Pages ships an update every 2 weeks, Wanderer every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Today's Front Pages | Wanderer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2K ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Newseum | Wanderer Com Inc. |
Customer experience
Today's Front Pages
Wanderer
Bugs and requests
Today's Front Pages
Reported bugs
4 issues- Favorites/preferences not saving properly after updates
- Widget feature not functioning correctly
- Inconsistent display of newspaper front pages
- Broken links to newspaper websites
Requested features
4 requests- Restore ability to save front pages to camera roll
- Improve search and filtering to easily find specific newspapers
- Add option to customize which newspapers are displayed
- Provide more reliable and timely updates to front page content
Wanderer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Today's Front Pages
No in-app purchases
Wanderer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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