WDRB+WAVE vs Eastside Online
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WDRB+WAVE
Access local news, weather, traffic, and sports from Louisville and surrounding areas. Stay informed with real-time updates, weather radar, and alerts. Submit your own stories to contribute to the community.
- Local news coverage
- Weather radar
- Real-time alerts
- Traffic updates
- Sports scores
- Story submission
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Download the power of the WDRB+WAVE right to your iPhone! WDRB+WAVE delivers local news coverage for Louisville and the rest of the Kentuckiana area. Features include: - Breaking news alerts - Live, local news headlines and stories - Live radar - Storm tracking - Sports - Video - And so much more! Also serving New Albany, Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Corydon, Sellersburg and Madison, Indiana along with Elizabethtown, Shepherdsville, Taylorsville, Shelbyville and Carrolton, Kentucky. This app requests location to help customize content for you. We will provide location information and information about your use of the app to our advertising partners in order to customize the ads displayed in this app and other apps you use. Please review our privacy policy for more details and for your choices.
Eastside Online
Stay updated with the latest news and interest stories from an award-winning school newspaper. Access current articles conveniently on your mobile device, bringing school and community news directly to you.
- Access school newspaper articles
- Read news and interest stories
- Convenient mobile updates
- Covers multiple topics
- Global readership support
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Welcome to Eastside Online's app! Eastside Online is the online counterpart to Eastside, the award-winning school newspaper of Cherry Hill High School East. Eastside provides students, Cherry Hill residents and readers around the world with current news and interest stories spanning multiple topics. Now, more convenient than ever, you can be updated on the latest Eastside news just by opening up the Eastside Online app. Created by Jillian Koenig 2022
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Eastside Online at none against WDRB+WAVE's shown. Eastside Online also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). WDRB+WAVE's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 9) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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.
Eastside Online holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WDRB+WAVE has 4.4K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WDRB+WAVE ships an update every 2 months, Eastside Online every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WDRB+WAVE | Eastside Online |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.4K ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #105 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gray Television Group, Inc. | Jillian Koenig |
Customer experience
WDRB+WAVE
Eastside Online
In-app purchases
WDRB+WAVE
No in-app purchases
Eastside Online
No in-app purchases
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