Comparison

Equal Time vs Frameshift News

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

Head to head
About

Equal Time

This app provides unbiased news headlines from a wide range of sources without algorithmic curation. It allows users to easily compare coverage and explore diverse perspectives on major stories. Stay informed and form your own opinions with this free, ad-free news aggregator.

Highlights
  • Unbiased news aggregation
  • No algorithmic curation
  • Wide variety of news sources
  • Headline comparison
  • Explore different perspectives
  • Free and ad-free
Features
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YouDecide enables Equal Access to news. There’s no curation, no algorithms shaping your feed—just headlines from a variety of news sources. As an RSS-powered news headlines aggregator, YouDecide makes it easy to see major stories from across the media landscape. Stay informed, explore different perspectives, and decide for yourself. THIS IS A FREE APP with no Ads and no commercial applications. You will get a list of varied source news to look at their provided headlines and choose to read and compare what they are covering.

About

Frameshift News

This app presents news stories as comprehensive timelines, drawing from thousands of sources. It organizes events chronologically, providing summaries and source details for each update. The app also tracks open questions and resurfaced stories for complete context.

Highlights
  • Story timelines from multiple sources
  • Continuous updates in The Vault
  • Event summaries with source attribution
  • Tracking of open questions
  • Searchable and connected timelines
  • Context for resurfaced stories
Features
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We organize every story on the news into its own timeline, drawn from thousands of sources, updated only when a change truly occurs. No more floods of headlines restating the same event. View the story map from start to finish at a glance. The Vault: Stories keep updating after the mainstream moves on. The Vault continuously updates stories whether they make the news or not. Hundreds of timelines, searchable, connected, and complete. When an old story resurfaces or links to something new, the full context comes with it. Nothing gets forgotten. Nothing has to be relearned. The Timeline: Every event in a story marked as an escalation, reversal, confirmation, new fact, etc. Each event has its own summary brief, with no fluff, and all sources listed. Open Questions: The questions nobody has answered yet. Whether it be missing evidence, or an insight that could reframe the narrative, we keep track of what's still to come from the story.

Screenshots

Equal Time4 screens
Frameshift News4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Equal Time at none against Frameshift News's 2. Equal Time also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Frameshift News's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Frameshift News sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Equal Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Equal Time against 5.0 for Frameshift News. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frameshift News has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Equal Time versus Frameshift News: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEqual TimeFrameshift News
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB49 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperSilverending Technologies LLCParallax LLC

Customer experience

Equal Time

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Frameshift News

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Equal Time

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Frameshift News

Subscriptions2
  • Frameshift Premium$5.991 Month
  • Frameshift Vault$64.991 Year

Questions

Is Equal Time free?
Equal Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Frameshift News free?
Frameshift News is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Equal Time or Frameshift News?
Equal Time and Frameshift News are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Equal Time or Frameshift News have ads?
Neither Equal Time nor Frameshift News shows ads.

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