This is Money vs Inframation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This is Money
Access the latest money news, advice, and tips from a leading UK financial website. Stay informed on pensions, investing, mortgages, consumer news, and savings rates. Features personalized content and offline reading capabilities.
- Latest money news and advice
- Coverage of pensions, investing, mortgages
- Consumer news and savings rates
- Business, stock market, and economic news
- Cars and electric car news
- Personalize favorite channels
- Offline reading
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This is Money’s quick new app brings you ALL the latest money news, advice and tips from Britain's best financial website. Our specialist writers and editors cover everything you need to know from pensions, house prices, investing ideas, mortgages, consumer news and the latest best buy savings rates. We cover business, stock market and economic news as it happens – and This is Money and the Daily Mail’s expert financial journalists explain what it means for you. Meanwhile, our popular Cars and Electric Cars channels bring you stories from the motoring world and explain what you need to know about the switch to EVs. The new app allows you to choose your favourite channels and reorder them to suit you. It will pre-load stories, so you can read them offline or without a connection – ideal for the commute to work. You can also join in the debate in reader comments, share stories with friends on Facebook, X and WhatsApp, and contact This is Money’s journalists to ask them your questions. This is Money is an award-winning financial website and the financial section of MailOnline. Download the app now to read This is Money for free on the move and keep up-to-date with the essential financial news you need to know.
Inframation
Access real-time news and in-depth analysis on global infrastructure projects. Subscribe to regional content services for actionable business intelligence and daily news briefings to stay ahead of market developments.
- Infrastructure project news
- Regional content services
- Actionable business intelligence
- Daily news briefings
- In-depth reports and analysis
- Real-time intelligence
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The Inframation app brings news and analysis on the world's infrastructure projects to your device. By subscribing to one or all of our regional content services – EMEA, US & Canada, Latin America, and Asia Pacific – you’ll have all of the actionable information that you need to make informed business decisions. With a subscription you'll benefit from real-time actionable intelligence via our website and daily news briefing. Our in-depth news, reports and analysis will enable you to find out what‘s happening before it becomes news
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: This is Money at 4.0 against Inframation's 3.5. This is Money also leads on review sentiment (31% vs 0%). Inframation's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
This is Money holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inframation has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of This is Money's written reviews are positive against 0% of Inframation's.
This is Money ships an update every 2 months, Inframation every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | This is Money | Inframation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MailOnline | Mergermarket (Overseas) Limited |
Customer experience
This is Money
Inframation
Bugs and requests
This is Money
Reported bugs
12 issues- Comments section broken
- Comments disappeared
- App crashes on startup
- App unusable on iPad
- App crashes when opening
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- App doesn't update
- Content won't load
- App not loading on iPad
- App not opening
- App not refreshing content
- App not loading articles
- App crashes like mad (previous version)
Requested features
20 requests- Fix comments section
- Reinstate all comments
- Make comments section accessible
- Allow highlighting words for text-to-speech
- Add dark mode
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- Include portfolio tracking
- Access to forums
- Include website menus and tools
- Comprehensive upgrade with charts
- Fix app to fit screen correctly
- Update ISA allowance information
- Fix app not updating content
- Remove personalized ads and data sharing prompt
- Improve app layout and format
- Fix app crashing on startup
- Fix app not loading on iPad
- Fix app not opening
- Fix app not refreshing content
- Fix app not loading articles
- Remove excessive adverts
Inframation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
This is Money
No in-app purchases
Inframation
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is This is Money free?
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