Comparison

Documentary Channel vs Moon Rotor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Documentary Channel

This app is a streaming service dedicated to independent documentaries, offering a curated selection of films with added context and community features. Discover new voices and perspectives from around the world, anytime, on any device.

Highlights
  • Home of independent documentaries
  • Curated film selection
  • Filmmaker interviews and context
  • Over 1000 new documentaries annually
  • 31 different documentary categories
  • Community discussion features
  • Available on multiple devices
Features
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Documentary Channel: Home of the Independent Documentary. LIFE. CAMERA. ACTION. Documentary Channel™ is the home of the independent documentary, showcasing new voices, new visions, and new perspectives. Documentary Channel will stream the best documentaries, curated by the best documentary filmmakers… and invite the world to join the discussion. Each year, thousands of high-quality documentaries are produced. The Academy of Motion Pictures routinely gets hundreds of submissions every year. Sundance and other film festivals get thousands of submissions, but they only show on average 3%. The others disappear because there is no place for them to be seen. There is no “home” for documentaries anywhere. There are “homes” for news, movies, original scripted content, nostalgia, food, travel, and every other genre, but not for documentaries. Until now. Documentary Channel™ is a new streaming service that will find the world’s best documentaries, organize them, provide context, and allow viewers to see them anywhere, anytime, on any device for a very low cost. If you like documentaries, Documentary Channel is a must-have. Top documentary filmmakers, historians, and aficionados in the industry will sift through the thousands of documentaries in the market to present the most interesting, engaging and groundbreaking documentaries, both recent and classic. Documentary Channel™ will offer valuable context for the films with brief interviews by the filmmakers and producers, critics, and others. Each year, the Documentary Channel will offer over 1000 new documentaries, with 31 different categories featuring every genre and length, ranging from rare classics to the latest cutting-edge films you hear about but can never see. The catch words for the Documentary Channel™ are ENGAGEMENT and COMMUNITY. Documentary Channel™ will engage the viewers with great films, context, discussions, town halls, premieres, DocClubs, DocNews, and many other features no other streaming service of any kind offers. There will be a documentary for everyone. We let the audience decide what they want to watch, and we have a simple requirement: each documentary has to be the best. Truth takes a front seat at the Documentary Channel. Documentary Channel: LIFE. CAMERA. ACTION.

About

Moon Rotor

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Turn the moon through time. Trace around the moon and feel each day click beneath your finger. Give it a flick and let it coast. Tap the moon to return to today. Moon Rotor makes the lunar cycle something you can explore by touch, with more to discover when you tap the lunar readout. Keep a date that matters Save a birthday, an anniversary, or a night you want to remember in Moon Keepsakes. Add your own title and note, then create a card showing that date's moon in Gold, Midnight, or Paper. Notes are left out of shared cards unless you choose to include an excerpt in the preview. A little moon, always nearby Add a textured moon and subtle ring to your Home Screen. Tap the widget to open the rotor. Lock Screen widgets put lunar details within a glance. Look a little deeper Explore phase, illumination, lunar age, and upcoming full and new moons. Choose a date in Moon Calendar. See the Moon estimates moonrise, moonset, height, and direction for a city or coordinates you choose, using calculations on your device without requesting location access. Make room for your own rhythm Choose local reminder times and an optional notice the day before a full or new moon. Turn on Astronomy Only for lunar facts, or explore optional reflective zodiac symbolism and Tonight guidance. On supported iPhones, optional on-device tailoring has a curated offline fallback. Private by design No account, ads, analytics, tracking, subscriptions, or developer-operated cloud service. Preferences, keepsakes, observing locations, and saved reflections are stored on your device. You choose whether to share a keepsake card. Lunar astronomy covers 2000 through 2050. Local sky estimates assume a clear, level horizon; terrain, weather, and polar conditions affect what you can see. Zodiac and Tonight content are reflection, not scientific claims or professional advice. Moon Rotor does not predict personal outcomes. Lunar surface artwork is derived from NASA's Lunar Near Side LRO image. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University.

Screenshots

Documentary Channel4 screens
Moon Rotor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moon Rotor at none against Documentary Channel's 2. Documentary Channel's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Documentary Channel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Moon Rotor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Documentary Channel ships an update fortnightly, Moon Rotor every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Documentary Channel versus Moon Rotor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocumentary ChannelMoon Rotor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKatapyAlexander Joubert

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Documentary Channel

Subscriptions2
  • Annual Subscription1 Year trial$1.991 Year
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
None

Moon Rotor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Documentary Channel free?
Documentary Channel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moon Rotor free?
Moon Rotor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Documentary Channel or Moon Rotor have ads?
Neither Documentary Channel nor Moon Rotor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Documentary Channel or Moon Rotor?
Documentary Channel ships an update fortnightly, and Moon Rotor every 9 days. Most recently, Documentary Channel was updated on October 7, 2026 and Moon Rotor on October 14, 2026.

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