Irish Echo vs Duncan Banner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Irish Echo
Access weekly editions of a newspaper on your iPad and iPhone. Offers various subscription options for continued access, with auto-renewing plans that can be managed through account settings. Stay informed with the latest news.
- Weekly newspaper editions
- Subscription options
- Auto-renewing plans
- Manage subscriptions
- iPad and iPhone compatible
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Keep up-to-date with the Irish Echo, now available each week on iPad and iPhone. The Irish Echo provides availability to all editions of the paper by incorporating subscriptions through the purchase of a 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and a yearly subscription to the paper. The monthly and yearly subscriptions are auto-renewing subscriptions. Prices for the subscriptions are $0.99 for 1 week, $6.99 for 1 month, $12.99 for 3 months, $25.99 for 6 months and $49.99 for a year. Payment for this subscription will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase. The subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours of the current subscription expiring. Auto-renewing subscriptions can be managed via Account Settings allowing them to be turned off. No cancellations of the current subscription are allowed during the active subscription period. For any further information see: Privacy policy: http://www.pagesuite.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of use: www.pagesuite.com/terms-of-service/
Duncan Banner
Access local news, commentary, photos, and videos on the go. Download content for offline reading and stay updated with breaking news, sports, and weather. Share articles and local events with friends.
- Offline content downloads
- Breaking news updates
- Photo and video galleries
- Print edition view
- Local weather and events
- Social sharing
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Take Duncan Banner with you wherever and whenever you go. Your community resource for news, commentary, photos, video and special features is evolving. Access it now and take off with our award-winning breaking news, sports, weather and more. Features: - Download daily editions and content to read offline at your convenience. - Get breaking news and developing stories from the Duncan Banner newsroom. - Browse photos and watch videos of local and national events. - View articles as they were written and edited for the Duncan Banner print edition. - Access free local weather, events, classifieds and shopping information - See each page and article in a horizontal or vertical display. - Share articles, photos, coupons and local events with friends on your social network. - New enhanced Weather feature in Live News
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Duncan Banner at 4.3 against Irish Echo's 3.7. Duncan Banner also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (19 vs 3). Irish Echo's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Irish Echo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Duncan Banner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Duncan Banner holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Duncan Banner has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Irish Echo's written reviews are positive against 75% of Duncan Banner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Irish Echo ships an update every 30 months, Duncan Banner every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Irish Echo | Duncan Banner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.3 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Belfast Media Group | CNHI LLC |
Customer experience
Irish Echo
Duncan Banner
In-app purchases
Irish Echo
- Irish Echo - 7 Days$0.997 Days
- Irish Echo - 1 Month$4.991 Month
- Irish Echo - 3 Month$12.993 Months
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- Irish Echo - 6 Month$25.996 Months
- Irish Echo - 1 Year$44.991 Year
Duncan Banner
- Today's ePaper$1.99
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