TheCable vs Truth Nigeria
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheCable
Access Nigeria's leading journalism for progress, featuring breaking news, fact-checks, investigations, and lifestyle content. This app is Nigeria's first disability and inclusion news app, offering special assistive features for accessibility.
- Breaking news access
- Fact-checks and investigations
- Sports and lifestyle content
- Disability and inclusion focus
- Assistive features for accessibility
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TheCable App is a window to our knowledge-driven journalism in pursuit of Nigeria’s progress. It grants you easy access to all our breaking stories, fact-checks, investigations, sports, and Lifestyle content around and outside the country. This app goes further by embedding special assistive features that make it easily accessible to persons with different forms of disability. It is Nigeria’s first Disability and Inclusion News App. TheCable App is free to download and easy to use. It is our award-winning journalism at your fingertips. [:mav: 1.3.2]
Truth Nigeria
Stay informed about violence, persecution, and humanitarian issues in Nigeria with news, incident updates, and community discussions. Access articles, view incidents on a map, and receive important notifications.
- News and article updates
- Incident map visibility
- Comments and discussion
- Category-based browsing
- Search and filtering
- Push notifications
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Truth Nigeria provides news, reports, and incident updates related to violence, persecution, and humanitarian concerns in Nigeria. The app helps users stay informed through articles, updates, map-based incident visibility, and community discussion. Users can browse recent stories, view incident-related information, comment on articles, and follow ongoing developments from Truth Nigeria. Features include: • News and article updates • Comments and discussion on articles • Incident map visibility • Category-based browsing • Search and filtering • Push notification options for important updates • About and contact information for Truth Nigeria and its publisher Truth Nigeria is published by Equipping the Persecuted to help bring awareness, prayer, and support to persecuted communities in Nigeria. An optional auto-renewable monthly subscription is available to remove ads. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TheCable at none against Truth Nigeria's 1. TheCable also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Truth Nigeria's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating 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. Truth Nigeria sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. TheCable asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TheCable against 5.0 for Truth Nigeria. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
TheCable ships an update every 5 weeks, Truth Nigeria every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheCable | Truth Nigeria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jesupelumi Adetunji | Equipping The Persecuted |
Customer experience
TheCable
Truth Nigeria
In-app purchases
TheCable
No in-app purchases
Truth Nigeria
- Ad-Free$2.991 Month
