Awful vs India Forums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Awful
This app provides a streamlined browsing experience for the Something Awful forums on iOS devices. It offers access to all forums, bookmarked threads, private messages, and includes features like image uploads and a smilie keyboard.
- Browse all forums and subforums
- Access bookmarked threads
- Built-in SALR functionality
- Smilie stickers and keyboard
- Upload images and pictures
- Manage private messages
- Favorite forums
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Browse the Something Awful forums nicely on your iPhone and iPad! • Every forum and subforum! • Quickly check your bookmarked threads! • Built-in SALR! • Smilie stickers and keyboard! • Upload images and pictures! • Private messages! • Favorite forums! • Rap sheets! • Excessive exclamation marks!
India Forums
This app serves as a premier online community for discussing Indian television and Bollywood news, gossip, and events. It connects a large user base for entertainment-related conversations.
- Entertainment discussion forum
- Latest news and gossip
- Bollywood industry updates
- Television industry events
- Large registered member base
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The home of Indian entertainment fandom — since 2003. IndiaForums is where fans of Indian television, Bollywood and international drama have been talking to each other for over twenty years. Follow the shows and stars you care about, read the news as it breaks, and join a conversation that has been running for decades. BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Television, Bollywood, K-drama and web-series news updated through the day. Full stories with photos and video, a Home feed built from what you follow, and one tap to save anything for later. FORUMS WITH PEOPLE ACTUALLY IN THEM Thousands of forums covering individual shows, actors, movies and channels. Start a topic, reply to a thread, run a poll, or just read. Follow the forums that matter to you and everything new lands in one place. CELEBRITIES, SHOWS AND MOVIES Profiles for actors, shows and channels, with news, photo galleries and video. Movie pages with ratings and release information — and you can write your own review. PHOTOS, VIDEOS, SHORTS AND WEB STORIES Galleries, trailers, interviews, short vertical videos and tap-through web stories — built for scrolling. FAN FICTION Read and write fan fiction, follow your favourite authors, and keep up with ongoing stories chapter by chapter. MY SPACE — YOUR PROFILE An activity wall, badges, buddies, private messages, saved articles, and a feed built from the forums and people you follow. QUIZZES Find out how well you actually know your shows. SEARCH EVERYTHING One search across news, forums, topics, celebrities, movies, shows, videos, galleries and members. BUILT THE WAY YOU LIKE IT Light theme, dark theme, or follow your phone. Nine accent colours. And honest offline handling — the app tells you the truth when your connection drops instead of showing you an empty screen. Browse as a guest — tap Skip on the first screen to read the news, forums, fan fiction and more without an account. Sign up free when you want to post, follow, message or build your profile, with an email address or with Apple, Google, Facebook or Microsoft.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Awful at none against India Forums's shown. Awful also leads on ratings volume (239 vs 1). India Forums's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Awful against 5.0 for India Forums. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Awful has 239 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Awful's written reviews are positive against 100% of India Forums's.
Awful ships an update every 8 days, India Forums every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Awful | India Forums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (239 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 239 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dale Stonall-Mellor | Cyberax Tech Private Limited |
Customer experience
Awful
India Forums
Bugs and requests
Awful
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when opening certain forums
- Inability to load images and media
- Freezing and lagging on older devices
- Sync issues between app and website
Requested features
4 requests- Add search functionality
- Implement dark mode option
- Improve thread navigation and bookmarking
- Integrate with other social platforms
India Forums
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Awful
No in-app purchases
India Forums
No in-app purchases
