This is Money vs Streamlly
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.
Streamlly
This app delivers fact-based news, information, and human stories through short, impactful films. Created by real journalists and filmmakers, it offers verified content without opinion or commentary, accessible to everyone.
- Fact-based news films
- Real human stories
- Verified content
- No opinion or commentary
- Created by journalists and filmmakers
- Free to watch
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Streamlly is the Human Storytelling Network. We bring fact-based news, meaningful information, and real human stories to the screens people use every day. Because the world doesn’t just happen in headlines. It happens in homes. In hospitals. In classrooms. In courtrooms. In communities where real people live through real events. Streamlly takes you there. Short, powerful news films designed for how people watch today. Created by real journalists, writers, filmmakers, editors, and actors — never AI actors or creators. Every story is verified, reviewed, and told without opinion or commentary. Completely free to watch. No paywalls, subscriptions, ads, or sponsorships. Real stories. Real people. Information that can change a life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Streamlly at 100% against This is Money's 31%. Streamlly also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). This is Money's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 18 months). On price, 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.
Streamlly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of This is Money's written reviews are positive against 100% of Streamlly's.
This is Money ships an update every 2 months, Streamlly every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | This is Money | Streamlly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MailOnline | Streamlly, LLC |
Customer experience
This is Money
Streamlly
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
Streamlly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
This is Money
No in-app purchases
Streamlly
No in-app purchases
