Comparison

Fantasy Game Show vs UVB

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

Head to head
About

Fantasy Game Show

Organize and compete in fantasy leagues for TV competition seasons with friends. Create private leagues, draft teams, and make weekly picks. Track scores on a live leaderboard and chat with your league.

Highlights
  • Create or join private leagues
  • Draft teams from season rosters
  • Make weekly episode picks
  • Live leaderboard and score tracking
  • League chat with notifications
  • Community safety tools
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Fantasy Game Show makes it easy to run a fantasy league for TV competition seasons with friends. Create or join a private league, draft your roster, and make picks each week as episodes air. Watch the leaderboard update, see how your team is doing, and keep the conversation going in league chat. Key features: • Create or join private leagues with friends • Draft your team from the season roster • Make weekly picks as episodes air • Live leaderboard and score breakdowns • League chat with push notifications • In-app reporting, blocking, and moderation tools for community safety

About

UVB

This app recreates the eerie sound and look of Russian numbers stations, like the famous UVB-76. It allows you to trigger broadcasts for creative projects, streams, or as a prop, offering an offline emulation of these mysterious shortwave signals.

Highlights
  • Recreates UVB-76, the Buzzer
  • Emulates Pip and Squeaky Wheel signals
  • Offline functionality
  • Trigger broadcasts on cue
  • Cold War prop for streams/videos
  • Ambient music layering
Features
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UVB-76, the Buzzer, and other Russian numbers stations, recreated on your iPhone. Unlike a real numbers station, this app can start a transmission on cue. IS IT REAL? No, and that is the point. This is an offline emulator, not a receiver. It does not pick up the live signal from Russia. It recreates the eerie sound and look of a shortwave numbers station, so you can trigger a broadcast whenever you want, for a performance, a stream, a video, an installation, a game, or as a prop. ABOUT UVB-76 AND THE BUZZER UVB-76, nicknamed the Buzzer and sometimes called Russia's doomsday radio, is a shortwave station on 4625 kHz that has broadcast a monotonous buzzing tone for decades from near Moscow. Every so often the buzz stops and a Russian voice reads a string of numbers and code words. No one officially claims it, its purpose has never been confirmed, and that mystery is exactly why people go looking for it. BEYOND THE BUZZER The app also recreates two more famous signals: the Pip on 5448 kHz and the Squeaky Wheel (S32) on 5473 kHz. Switch between the three like presets, each on its own frequency, with its own marker tone and its own Russian voice reading coded messages. WHO USES IT Musicians layer it into ambient and experimental tracks. Streamers and filmmakers use it as a Cold War prop. Fans of the mystery just let it buzz in the background. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is UVB-76 still broadcasting? Yes. The real station near Moscow is still active on 4625 kHz and has never officially gone silent. This app is a standalone recreation of it, so it keeps buzzing even with no radio and no internet. What is UVB-76 used for? Officially undisclosed. Theories range from a military command channel to simply keeping a frequency occupied. In this app the buzz and the numbers are yours to trigger for creative work. How do you listen to the real UVB-76? You need a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz, or an online WebSDR receiver. This app does not receive that signal. It emulates the experience, so you can hear a numbers station anytime, with no equipment at all. Where is UVB-76 located? The transmitter is believed to sit near Povarovo, not far from Moscow, in Russia. What does the Buzzer do? It transmits a repeating buzz tone almost continuously, interrupted now and then by spoken Russian letters and numbers in the Monolith format. Are there still numbers stations? Yes. Numbers stations still send coded broadcasts on shortwave today, and enthusiasts around the world log and record them. This app is a tribute to that world. Has a numbers station ever been decoded? The messages are thought to use one-time pads, which are effectively unbreakable without the key, so the codes themselves stay secret. The fascination is in the ritual, not the answer. Works fully offline on iPhone and iPad. No signal required.

Screenshots

Fantasy Game Show4 screens
UVB3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fantasy Game Show at 5 against UVB's 1. Fantasy Game Show also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). UVB's advantage is device support. On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fantasy Game Show against 5.0 for UVB. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fantasy Game Show has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Fantasy Game Show versus UVB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantasy Game ShowUVB
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequency—Every 9 days
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB41 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperZachary RudenMaxim Oransky

In-app purchases

None

Fantasy Game Show

No in-app purchases

None

UVB

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fantasy Game Show free?
Fantasy Game Show is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UVB free?
UVB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fantasy Game Show or UVB?
Fantasy Game Show and UVB are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.

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