AFSCME 391 vs DripCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AFSCME 391
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AFSCME 391 is the official mobile application of the AFSCME Local 391. It provides AFSCME 391 members with a tool to connect with their union and stay on top of major events, learn about their rights in the workplace, download their contracts, and more.
DripCast
This news app delivers personalized daily briefings that can be read or listened to. It adapts to your interests, offering trending stories and special event coverage. Enjoy a seamless experience switching between text and audio formats.
- Personalized daily news briefings
- Switch between reading and listening
- Adaptive feed based on interests
- Trending stories in real-time
- Special event coverage
- Includes horoscopes, history, and weather
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DripCast — The News You Can't Live Without. Read or Listen. Switch between the two without missing a beat. You're the person who reads the headlines at breakfast, refreshes them at lunch, and falls asleep to a podcast. News isn't a habit for you — it's a heartbeat. DripCast was built for exactly that obsession — and it meets you however the moment finds you. Got a free minute and a screen? Read every word. Hands full on the commute, at the gym, doing the dishes, walking the dog? Press play and listen. Same stories, same feed — two ways to dive in, and you choose in the moment. This is news that pours in like a steady drip — short, sharp, and impossible to put down. YOUR DAILY DRIP Every single day, DripCast hand-pours a fresh briefing made for you. The biggest stories. The deepest context. No noise, no clutter, no 14 open tabs. Just press play and let the day's most important news flow straight into your ears — beautifully narrated, intelligently summarized, always up to date. READ IT, HEAR IT, OR BOTH Every Drip works two ways, perfectly in sync. Read the full story now, then tap play and pick up exactly where you stopped — in crystal-clear, natural-sounding audio. Started listening on your walk? Open the app later and the text is right there, ready to finish with your eyes. Switch channels mid-story and never lose your place. Reading and listening aren't either-or — they're one seamless experience that bends to YOUR day. FROM HEADLINE TO HEADPHONES The world moves fast, and so do we. Breaking stories are fetched, summarized, and ready in your queue — clean, concise, and stripped of the fluff. You get the signal, never the noise. BUILT AROUND WHAT YOU LOVE Politics, tech, business, sports, science, culture, world affairs — follow the topics that move you and skip the ones that don't. The more you listen, the smarter your feed gets. DripCast learns your taste and keeps the stories you crave flowing. TRENDING, RIGHT NOW See what the world can't stop talking about. Our Trending feed surfaces the conversations breaking out across the globe in real time, so you're never the last to know — you're the first. SPECIAL DRIPS FOR THE BIG MOMENTS Major event unfolding? A World Cup, an election, a story the whole planet is watching? DripCast serves up dedicated Special Drips that keep you locked in from kickoff to final whistle, headline to history. A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA Start your day with more than the headlines. Get your horoscope, a "This Day in History" moment, your local weather, and other daily delights woven right into your Drip. It's the full morning ritual — informative, personal, and genuinely yours. WHY YOU'LL BE HOOKED • Fresh news delivered every day, automatically • Natural, podcast-quality narration — not robotic text-to-speech • A feed that adapts to YOU, not the other way around • Real-time trending stories from around the world • Special coverage for the events that matter most • Horoscopes, history, weather, and more in one place • Read or listen — switch between the two anytime • Pick up right where you left off, on either channel • Clean, beautiful, distraction-free design • Queue up stories and play them back-to-back MADE FOR THE WAY YOU LIVE Perfect for the commute, the treadmill, the kitchen, the carpool line — every spare moment your mind is hungry. Read when you can, listen when you can't. DripCast keeps you informed wherever life takes you. NEWS LOVERS, THIS IS YOUR APP You don't just want to know what's happening — you NEED to. You're the friend who breaks the story at dinner, the one who saw it coming, the person everyone texts to ask "is this real?" DripCast keeps you sharper, faster, and more in-the-know than everyone in the room. The news never stops. Now you never have to either. Download DripCast and turn every spare moment into your daily drip of everything worth knowing. Your world — read or listen. One Drip at a time.
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Verdict
AFSCME 391 and DripCast are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | AFSCME 391 | DripCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Prometheus Labor Communications, Inc. | DripCast, LLC |
In-app purchases
AFSCME 391
No in-app purchases
DripCast
No in-app purchases








