Pocket Congress vs PenLitics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Congress
Access information about your representatives and Congress with this app. Track bills, view voting records, and search legislative data. Easily find your representative and stay informed about government actions.
- View recent bills
- Find your Representative by zip code
- See Congress members' votes
- Read bill descriptions and vote trends
- Call representative offices
- Follow bills for updates
- Search 30 years of historical bill data
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Congressional App Challenge Winner (CA-13, 2022) Nothing's stopping you from reading through the Congressional Record or watching C-SPAN all day, but Pocket Congress makes information on the actions of your representatives and Congress as a whole much more accessible and searchable. With the app, you can: • See recent bills in Congress • Find your Representative using your zip code • See Congress members’ votes on recent bills. • Read a brief description about them and view trends about how they vote • Call their office, straight from the app! • Follow bills & receive updates on their progress You can also search for recent bills or through 30 years of historical data. • Search by category, such as 'healthcare' or 'environmental' • Search by bill name • For advanced users: search by bill number and create advanced filters For all bills, you can see their stage in the legislative process and a summary of the bill text authored by the Congressional Research Service. Share links to specific bills and congressmembers (perfect for educating your friends or spreading the word on social media)! “Very cool.” –Congressman Jeff Jackson Created by Siddharth M. Bhatia, a senior at Piedmont High School. www.sidmb.com Contact me: siddharth@sidmb.com
PenLitics
This app simplifies political education, explaining the significance of voting and identifying bias in news coverage. It aims to make understanding politics accessible to everyone.
- Political education
- Importance of voting
- Understanding political bias
- News analysis
- Simplified politics
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PenLitics is a political education app that teaches you the importance of politics, voting, and political bias in the news.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PenLitics at 5.0 against Pocket Congress's 4.5. PenLitics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Pocket Congress's advantage is ratings volume (75 vs 15). 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.
PenLitics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Congress has 75 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Pocket Congress's written reviews are positive against 100% of PenLitics's.
| Parameter | Pocket Congress | PenLitics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (75 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Siddharth Bhatia | PenLitics LLC |
Customer experience
Pocket Congress
PenLitics
In-app purchases
Pocket Congress
No in-app purchases
PenLitics
No in-app purchases
