Progressive Voices App vs act.tv
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Progressive Voices App
Access a comprehensive collection of progressive news, opinion, audio, and video content in one place. This app eliminates the need to search multiple sources for your favorite progressive media.
- One-stop-shop for progressive content
- News aggregation
- Opinion articles
- Audio content
- Video content
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"PV app is the first and only one-stop-shop for everything Progressive: news, opinion, audio and video--it's all here! No more searching the Internet for Progressive content. No more being tied to your computer to hear a distant radio show or read your favorite Progressive sites. Help us establish and grow a Progressive Media Universe by buying and using the PV App! Please support the non-profit Progressive Voices Institute by downloading the app today!"
act.tv
This app offers livestreaming and digital strategy with a focus on action-oriented media. It features produced virtual livestreams designed to advance popular and historic policies, leveraging video conferencing platforms with enhanced production values.
- Produced virtual livestreams
- Digital strategy services
- Policy advancement focus
- Social media expertise
- Progressive movement support
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act.tv is a progressive media company specializing in livestreaming and digital strategy. We're creating new kinds of action-oriented media designed to advance popular and historic policies. We're especially proud of our cable news style 'Produced Virtual Livestreams' that we developed in the wake of the pandemic. These shows leverage the mass-adoption of video conferencing platforms with production values that make them much more than 'just another zoom call.' act.tv has a long track record on the cutting edge of social media cultivated through our work with movement efforts. We have partnered with all kinds of progressive thought leaders and elected officials to advance policies like Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, voting rights reforms and more. Our team is built up of experienced activists fighting to meet the movement moment we are in. We believe another world is possible but we need a better media to make it. act.tv is a project of Democrats.com, the oldest and largest independent online community of Democratic Party and progressive activists.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: act.tv at 5.0 against Progressive Voices App's 2.6. act.tv also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Progressive Voices App's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 1). 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.
act.tv holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progressive Voices App has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Progressive Voices App | act.tv |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Progressive Agenda d.b.a. Progressive Voices | act.tv |
Customer experience
Progressive Voices App
act.tv
Bugs and requests
Progressive Voices App
Reported bugs
40 issues- Endless stream of ads
- App constantly crashes
- Unreliable streaming
- Stops playing in background
- Audio distortion
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- Volume too low
- App is unstable
- Useless without content
- Not working at all
- Doesn't work with Bluetooth
- Crashes immediately
- Audio only plays when screen is on
- Stops playing when phone navigates to other apps
- No stream for about a week
- Plays nothing
- Cannot recover stream when switching networks
- Shows keep cutting out
- Stops working when screen goes into sleep mode
- Unusable after update
- Background audio no longer works
- Stops playing after a few minutes
- Refuses to work after calls
- Doesn't play on phone
- Works sometimes
- Stops constantly then repeats
- Stops working in background
- Nearly unusable
- Distorts audio
- Too much dead air
- Freezes and stalls too much
- Stops a lot
- Freezes up
- Needs restart multiple times
- Stops again during pauses
- Bugs need fixing
- Crashes constantly
- Video section didn't work
- Print too small
- Not warned about Canada restriction
- Feeds not available outside US
Requested features
16 requests- Ad-free option
- Fix background audio playback
- Fix app crashes
- Improve stability
- Add sleep timer
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- Allow background playback when screen is off
- Make highlights play automatically
- Update for newer iOS versions
- Add dark mode
- Add horizontal mode
- Add Share button
- Add button to link out of app in Safari
- Fix flash content compatibility
- Add ability to rewind or fast forward
- Improve audio normalization
- Fix Bluetooth connectivity
act.tv
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Progressive Voices App
No in-app purchases
act.tv
No in-app purchases
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