Y Combinator vs COLM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Y Combinator
Access curated content from Y Combinator, including YouTube videos, podcasts, and essays on startups. It also serves as a mobile client for Hacker News, providing the latest startup news for founders and programmers. YC-funded founders get exclusive access to additional community features.
- Organized YC YouTube videos
- Startup School content
- On-the-go podcast listening
- Hacker News mobile client
- YC founder-only knowledge base
- Bookface feed and messages
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The Y Combinator App is your home for all things YC. It organizes all of YC's YouTube videos, podcasts, and essays. It's also a mobile client for Hacker News, the best startup news source for programmers and technical founders. For founders who have been funded by YC, it has additional features. For everyone: - Organizes all of YC's YouTube videos - the world's best content on startups - All of the content from Startup School - Listen to YC podcasts on the go - Read Hacker News - the best news source for programmers and technical founders For YC founders: - Access the Bookface feed - Access Bookface messages - Read the YC founder-only knowledge base
COLM
This app serves as the official platform for the Conference on Language Modeling. It provides access to information and resources related to the conference.
- Official conference app
- Language modeling information
- Conference resources
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The official app of the Conference on Language Modeling
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: COLM at 5.0 against Y Combinator's 4.1. Y Combinator's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). 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.
COLM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Y Combinator has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Y Combinator ships an update every 5 days, COLM fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Y Combinator | COLM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Y Combinator | Anthony Manzo |
In-app purchases
Y Combinator
No in-app purchases
COLM
No in-app purchases
