COSMOS vs HKI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COSMOS
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COSMOS国际传播平台,“立足香港、联通世界”,打造媒体移动端产品集群,致力于开放性、实时性和交互性建构,聚合全球新闻媒体、政府机构、社团组织、商贸企业及个体用户等,助力国家和地区政治、经济、文化多领域交流与合作,多向度融合适配资源,让用户与内容快速连结、高效连接。 COSMOS特点:覆盖全球多个国家和地区,用户群体广泛且多元;高度互动性,用户可以通过分享等功能轻松实现互动交流;精准数据分析能力,帮助商家实现广告的精准投放,提高营销效率;支持文字、图片、视频和直播等多种形式传播。
HKI
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Hong Kong's news, three ways: English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. One city. Three languages. Zero noise. TOP STORIES, DISTILLED Every major story is selected from Hong Kong's newsrooms, verified across sources and rewritten into a clean brief — a summary, the key points, and why it matters — published simultaneously in English, 繁體中文 and 简体中文. Switch language any time; the news follows you. THE LIVE FEED The raw wire: headlines from across Hong Kong's media as they break, with clear source attribution. LISTEN Any story can read itself to you — English, Cantonese for Traditional Chinese, Mandarin for Simplified. Keep listening in the background, with playback controls on your Lock Screen. LIVE RADIO Thirteen Hong Kong stations, streaming live — RTHK, Commercial Radio, Metro and more — with Lock Screen Live Activities while you listen. ASK ABOUT ANY STORY A built-in AI assistant answers questions about the story you are reading, grounded in its sources, with citations you can check yourself. CARS A curated feed of Hong Kong's used-car market — hot deals, new today, electric, first-owner listings. MADE FOR HONG KONG Save stories across devices with Sign in with Apple. A reading-first design with full dark mode. No clutter, no pop-ups. HKI. Hong Kong, three ways. Privacy Policy: https://hki.zone/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HKI at none against COSMOS's shown. COSMOS's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
COSMOS ships an update every 3 days, HKI every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | COSMOS | HKI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NEWS AGENCY LIMITED | Aircity Operating System (HK) Limited |
In-app purchases
COSMOS
No in-app purchases
HKI
No in-app purchases








