Comparison

Inkline vs Interra

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

Head to head
About

Inkline

Stay informed with a streamlined reading experience for news and blogs. Organize your feeds, take notes, and get personalized summaries. All processing happens on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device processing
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri integration
  • Spotlight search for notes
  • Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil
  • AI-powered daily brief
  • Subject and journalist monitoring
Features
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Inkline is a news reader for people who follow the news for a living: comms teams, journalists and anyone who has to know what is being said, by whom, and first. YOUR FRONT PAGE Today leads on the stories most of your publications are running, each one shown with its publisher's own icon. One card per story tells you how many outlets have it, who was first and when, and opens Compare to show how the coverage differs. Choose from over 7,500 publications in 130 markets, or add your own. WATCH A SUBJECT, FOLLOW A WRITER Watch a name, a company or a subject across your publications and the wider web, with a surge alert when coverage jumps, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen if you want one. Follow individual journalists by their bylines rather than their mastheads. BRIEFINGS A short briefing of the last twelve hours, written on your device by Apple Intelligence, and Inkline Radio to listen to it, from the app, the Lock Screen or Control Center. SIRI, IF YOU WANT IT On iOS 27, you can let Siri answer some questions about your news, such as what's the latest in Inkline, from your own sources. It is optional and off until you turn it on. A REAL READER Articles open in a calm, typographic reader with captions, pull quotes and More on this story at the foot. Everything already fetched reads offline. Three fonts including OpenDyslexic, four color modes. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Save a story, select any sentence to keep the quote, write notes beside it, and turn a watched subject into a coverage report for the people you brief. YOUR NEWSLETTERS Connect Substack once and the newsletters you already subscribe to open whole, sorted into your categories. OUTSIDE THE APP Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, Spotlight, Shortcuts, a share extension to follow a site from Safari, and alerts you can act on straight away. Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. PRIVATE No Inkline account, no servers of ours, no tracking. The intelligence runs on your device, and your notes and follows stay in your own iCloud. Inkline is free with up to 50 publications, and there is no time limit. Inkline Pro adds monitoring and alerts, following journalists, your Substack newsletters, the written and spoken briefings, and as many publications as you like. New subscribers may be offered a free trial first. Made by White Wiki. Inkline Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, billed to your Apple account at the price shown for your country and renewing automatically until you cancel. You can turn off renewal at any time in your account settings, up to a day before it renews. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Interra

Explore global events through an interactive 3D globe. Get AI-generated news summaries and dive into local coverage. Track major stories, disasters, and country data.

Highlights
  • Interactive 3D globe exploration
  • AI-generated news summaries
  • Country-specific news and data
  • Breaking news and disaster alerts
  • Save stories for later
  • Search by country and topic
Features
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See the world’s news where it happens. Interra turns global events into an interactive 3D experience, helping you explore countries, understand major stories, and move from the big picture to local coverage in seconds. EXPLORE THE WORLD Tap any country on the globe to open its latest news, breaking developments, and key context. UNDERSTAND STORIES FASTER Get concise AI-generated summaries that highlight the main points, then open the original source whenever you want the complete story. FOLLOW WHAT MATTERS - Browse major stories by country and continent - Search for countries and topics - Save stories to revisit later - See breaking-news and disaster alerts - Track recent earthquakes and global hotspots - Explore country data including population, GDP per capita, development, and homicide rates BUILT FOR GLOBAL CURIOSITY Whether you follow geopolitics, economics, conflict, disasters, or events in a specific country, Interra helps you understand what is happening and where. News availability and update timing may vary by country and source. AI-generated summaries are provided for convenience; refer to the linked original source for full context.

Screenshots

Inkline4 screens
Interra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Interra at free against Inkline's subscription. Interra also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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. 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 Inkline against 5.0 for Interra. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inkline ships an update every 5 days, Interra weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Inkline versus Interra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInklineInterra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMichael WhiteHAKOB DARBINYAN

Customer experience

Inkline

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Interra

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Inkline

No in-app purchases

None

Interra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inkline free?
Inkline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Interra free?
Interra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Inkline or Interra?
Inkline and Interra are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Inkline or Interra have ads?
Neither Inkline nor Interra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inkline or Interra?
Inkline ships an update every 5 days, and Interra weekly. Most recently, Inkline was updated on October 24, 2026 and Interra on October 24, 2026.

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