ChatterPix Kids vs NewsMaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChatterPix Kids
Transform photos into animated talking characters for fun messages, greetings, and creative projects. This app is designed for children aged 5-12 to express themselves through interactive visuals.
- Animate photos to talk
- Create silly greetings
- Make playful messages
- Design creative cards
- Add stickers, frames, and filters
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Create ChatterPix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! AGES: 5-12. NOTE: For adults, check out our “ChatterPix” app for more fun and sharing via email and social media. CATEGORY: Creative Expression TOOLS: 22 stickers, 10 frames and 11 photo filters ABOUT DUCK DUCK MOOSE (A subsidiary of Khan Academy) Duck Duck Moose, an award-winning creator of educational mobile apps for families, is a passionate team of engineers, artists, designers, and educators. Founded in 2008, the company has created 21 top-selling titles and has received 21 Parents’ Choice Awards, 18 Children’s Technology Review Awards, 12 Tech with Kids’ Best Pick App Awards, and a KAPi award for “Best Children’s App” at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Duck Duck Moose is now part of the Khan Academy family. Like all Khan Academy offerings, all Duck Duck Moose apps are now 100% free, without ads or subscriptions. For kids ages 2-6, don't miss Khan Academy Kids, our new early learning app to help young children with reading, writing, math and social-emotional development! We’d love to hear from you! Visit us at www.duckduckmoose.com or drop us a line at support@duckduckmoose.com.
NewsMaker
Create and share your own video news with this comprehensive tool. Features include a teleprompter, voiceover capabilities, animated intros, and virtual accessories. Collaborate with friends remotely and host your videos on a personal news channel.
- Teleprompter for scripts
- Voiceover for videos and images
- Animated trailer library
- Background music overlay
- Virtual accessories
- Remote collaboration
- Personal news channel
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NewsMaker is a tool that lets you create video news. It is also an online platform that lets you share your videos in your very own NewsMaker channel. As a video-creation tool, NewsMaker provides a rich set of features: 1. You can read your script from the teleprompter. 2. You can voiceover videos and images. 3. You can use the animated trailer videos in the library as an opening to your video. 4. You can overlay background music in your news segments. 5. You can put virtual glasses and hat on yourself. 6. You can collaborate remotely with your friends to produce your video news together, regardless of where they are located. And many more… As an online platform, NewsMaker allows you to have your own news channel to share your video news privately with your friends or followers. NewsMaker is ideal to be used in schools, as a tool to allow any student to create school morning news easily. It can also be used as a tool to improve language and presentation skills as NewsMaker is neither grade-level or content specific. If you have any queries, please contact us at support@teevers.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChatterPix Kids at 4.3 against NewsMaker's 3.6. ChatterPix Kids also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 33%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. NewsMaker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChatterPix Kids asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChatterPix Kids holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChatterPix Kids has 664 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of ChatterPix Kids's written reviews are positive against 33% of NewsMaker's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChatterPix Kids | NewsMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (664 ratings) — better | 3.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 664 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Duck Duck Moose LLC | Teevers Pte. Ltd. |
Customer experience
ChatterPix Kids
NewsMaker
Bugs and requests
ChatterPix Kids
Reported bugs
3 issues- Camera not working for some users
- Repeated crashes or freezes
- Syncing issues between photos and audio
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to adjust mouth movement and animation
- More customization options
- Longer recording time
- Integration with more photo/video platforms
NewsMaker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ChatterPix Kids
No in-app purchases
NewsMaker
- 1-Year NewsMaker Subscription$19.99
Questions
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