Foreign Affairs Magazine vs AA Grapevine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Foreign Affairs Magazine
Access award-winning commentary on global news and international affairs. Stay informed with daily articles, digital issues, podcasts, and videos from influential thinkers and world leaders. Enjoy offline access and accessibility features for a comprehensive news experience.
- Daily international news articles
- Bi-monthly digital magazine issues
- Podcasts with leading scholars
- Video content on global topics
- Audio versions of select articles
- Offline reading and listening
- Bookmark and share articles
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Get award-winning commentary on global news daily with the Foreign Affairs app. Download the Foreign Affairs app to stay up-to-date on the latest international news, commentary, and policy analysis from influential thinkers and world leaders. Foreign Affairs offers insightful articles, digital issues, podcast episodes, videos, and audio content on critical topics related to geopolitics, security, economics, science and technology, climate change, and more. Foreign Affairs has published globally renowned thinkers and world leaders over the past 100 years from around the world and across the political spectrum, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Kennan, Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Jill Lepore, Eric Schmidt, Samantha Power, Fareed Zakaria, and more. Get new, relevant articles on international topics of interest daily. Subscribers get additional access to digital magazine issues. Podcasts and event videos are free for all users. Quality Content -New articles every weekday on pertinent international news topics -Subscriber-only access to Foreign Affairs magazine issues on a bi-monthly basis -Podcasts and videos featuring insightful conversations with leading scholars, historians, editors, and authors Anytime, Anywhere -Audio for select articles—perfect for listening on-the-go -Download options for offline reading and listening at all times -Bookmark for saving and sharing articles -Accessibility tools for a better reading experience for everyone, including light or dark display and text resizing
AA Grapevine
Access the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, featuring articles, a podcast, and a daily quote. Enhance your sobriety journey with a calculator, events calendar, and exclusive spiritual maintenance tools. Share your experiences and connect with a supportive community.
- Monthly magazine access
- Article archives
- Podcast player
- Daily quote
- Sobriety calculator
- AA events calendar
- Spiritual maintenance checklist
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The Grapevine app is all things Grapevine right on your smartphone. The monthly magazine, the articles archives, the podcast, the daily quote, an enhanced sobriety calculator, and the AA events calendar. App-exclusive features include a spiritual maintenance checklist and the ability to share articles, and your own experience, strength, and hope with other Grapevine app users. The app allows for more content each month too. Service-oriented members will find easy ways to be a part of the AA Grapevine Community in our Get Involved section. You’ll be able to read Grapevine anonymously wherever you go. You can also listen to each month’s articles on a playlist, and listen to the podcast playlist right on the app. Terms of Use / End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Foreign Affairs Magazine at 4.8 against AA Grapevine's 4.0. Foreign Affairs Magazine also leads on review sentiment (61% vs 30%) and ratings volume (14K vs 87). AA Grapevine's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Foreign Affairs Magazine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year and AA Grapevine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Foreign Affairs Magazine holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Foreign Affairs Magazine has 14K ratings behind it against 87, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Foreign Affairs Magazine's written reviews are positive against 30% of AA Grapevine's.
Foreign Affairs Magazine ships an update every 6 weeks, AA Grapevine every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Foreign Affairs Magazine | AA Grapevine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (14K ratings) — better | 4.0 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | 87 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #96 | #77 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Council on Foreign Relations | AA Grapevine, Inc. |
Customer experience
Foreign Affairs Magazine
AA Grapevine
User reviews
Foreign Affairs Magazine
From 14K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Excellent content and analysis
- 🔊 Useful audio versions of articles
- 📚 Diverse range of perspectives
- 🗣 Thought-provoking and insightful
- 🌍 Comprehensive coverage of global affairs
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes and bugs
- 🔄 Loses reading progress when switching apps
- 🔒 Login and subscription issues
- 📱 Subpar user experience and navigation
- 🕰 Slow content downloads
AA Grapevine
From 87 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app concept
- 👍 Helpful individual stories
- 👍 Content is valuable for recovery
- 👍 Audio is great
- 👍 Easy to use (for some)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constant subscription verification issues
- 🐛 App is buggy
- 🐛 Difficult to recommend app
- 🐛 Restore option never works
- 🐛 Cannot access current issue
Bugs and requests
Foreign Affairs Magazine
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashing when switching between articles
- Subscription not recognized, requiring repeated logins
- Inability to access previously downloaded content
- Outdated content not updating properly
- Formatting and layout issues on larger devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to sync reading progress across devices
- More audio playback controls (speed, rewind, etc.)
- Highlight and note-taking functionality
- Improved search and browsing of past issues
- Offline article downloads
AA Grapevine
Reported bugs
16 issues- Subscription verification issues
- App is buggy
- Restore subscription option never works
- Cannot access current issue
- App repeatedly states user is not subscribed
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- Subscription sync issues
- App does not unlock all features after subscription
- Data not available message when restoring subscription
- Cannot download full issue
- Meeting place pictures not available
- Article playlist does not auto-advance
- Cannot read on e-ink devices
- Archive search is missing terms
- Cannot sign in with valid subscription
- No user ID/password created during subscription
- App does not recognize valid subscription
Requested features
7 requests- Native iPad version needed
- Improve iPad usability for visually impaired
- Fix app bugs
- Add a way to change password
- Improve archive search functionality
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- Add ability to report app bugs
- Allow specifying user ID/password during subscription
In-app purchases
Foreign Affairs Magazine
- Foreign Affairs$39.991 Year
- Iran and the Bomb$8.99
- Foreign Affairs Summer Reading$8.99
- Masters of International Relations$8.99
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- Foreign Affairs Best of 2013$8.99
- JAN/FEB 2013$9.99
- July$9.99
- September/October 2014$9.99
- March/April 2016$9.99
- November/December 2016$9.99
AA Grapevine
- Grapevine Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Grapevine Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
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