Criticless vs Award Expert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Criticless
This app empowers users to share and discover reviews, lists, and discussions about entertainment. It offers a customizable social media experience with features like curated friend scores and dedicated discussion boards. Users can engage in groups, earn badges, and access detailed entertainment information.
- User-generated reviews and lists
- Customizable user profiles
- Curated friend scores
- Group discussions
- Entertainment details (cast, genre, streaming)
- Achievement badges
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Criticless is taking the reins from professional critics and giving a voice back to the people in an easily accessible format that functions as you would expect a modern social media platform to. Browse your feed to discover new and trending reviews, lists, watercooler posts, and groups from users you follow and from trending posts site wide. Customize your profile with artistic banners and wallpapers created by independent artist from around the world. Have friends with benefits, a list of users specific to you that will create a curated aggregated score that’s is displayed on any piece of entertainment that you view. Join or create private and public groups with other users to discuss the things. Create and share lists showcasing things you love, hate, and everything in between. Hang out by The Watercooler, a designated discussion board on every piece on entertainment that keeps you from getting your conversations trapped under individual reviews. Unlock hidden badges though achievements that can be triggered by simply using the platform. Browse important details like cast & crew, length, release date, genre and streaming locations. Enjoy a pro free speech environment. Bad ideas are easy to spot and the best ideas will always win but for this to happen they have to actually be heard. Choose the content you do and don’t want to see while having a lower threat of being banned for the things you say. Join the Crit Club (Most Excellent or Rad) today for premium access to features like Verification, Extended Reach, Expanded Profile Customization, No Adds (when they go live), and Free Shipping in the Criticless Merch Shop.
Award Expert
This app allows users to predict the winners of major movie awards like the Oscars and Golden Globes. Users can track friends, create watchlists, and analyze award races with community rankings and charts. Compete with others on leaderboards and track your prediction history.
- Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA
- Follow friends and track updates
- Add films to watchlist
- Analyze award races with charts
- Compete on leaderboards
- Track prediction history
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The largest social awards predictions platform in the world • Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and more • Follow friends, track their prediction updates • Join the conversation with active social feed • Analyze the race with aggregate community rankings and detailed charts • Compete in leaderboards, compare your performance to your friends • Automatically track your updates history Auto-renewing subscriptions available: - Award Expert Plus - monthly 5.99/mo USD (1-week free) - yearly 49.99/yr USD (1-week free) By using this app, you agree to the standard Apple Terms of Service (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/oscarexpert-predictawards/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Award Expert at every 6 days against Criticless's every 2 weeks. Award Expert also leads on ratings volume (251 vs 45). Criticless's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Criticless sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Award Expert sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Criticless against 4.8 for Award Expert. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Award Expert has 251 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 92% and 93% positive.
Criticless ships an update every 2 weeks, Award Expert every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Criticless | Award Expert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (45 ratings) | 4.8 (251 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 92.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 251 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Criticless | Justin Jaeger |
Customer experience
Criticless
Award Expert
Bugs and requests
Criticless
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Award Expert
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes
- No live updates
- Cannot access account (Twitter login removed)
- App closes almost at random on iPad
- Predictions not saving
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- Ineligible films in selections
- App crashes within seconds of opening
Requested features
11 requests- Add music award shows
- Add casting section
- Add stunts/choreography section
- Create a 'personal awards pick' list separate from official predictions
- Add a 'next' button to move to the next category
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- Ability to make predictions for next year's films
- Improve elimination of ineligible films
- Add a search function for movies
- Add TV award predictions
- Notification system for new followers
- Add 'Peaches' from the Mario movie to Original Song
In-app purchases
Criticless
- Crit Club Rad$3.991 Month
- Crit Club ME$6.991 Month
- Crit Club Rad$18.991 Year
Award Expert
- Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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- Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
