NM Bluebird vs Daily Inter Lake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NM Bluebird
Enhance your reading experience on iOS devices with this app. Navigate publications using intuitive gestures, zoom into pages, or switch to article mode for adjustable text. Access the latest and past editions for online or offline reading.
- iOS multi-gestures navigation
- Swipe to browse pages/sections
- Tap to zoom page image
- Article mode with adjustable font size
- Full text search
- Online and offline reading
- Access to back issues
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This app is part of the new Responsive Design interface of Tecnavia's Bluebird interface. This app improves the reading experience on any iOS device. It is more enhanced than viewing with the Safari Browser. Readers can quickly navigate the entire publication using iOS multi-gestures. Swipe to browse pages or sections or tap a live headline or page number to reach your favorite article. A thumbnail view lets you scan all the pages at once. To read a story, just tap to zoom the page image, or tap to article mode and read the whole story, including jumps, in the text window at the font size you prefer. The e-Edition will also let you easily find topics using the section and story index, or find any ad or story via a full text search of words contained in the copy. Just open the app to get the latest edition for on-line or off-line reading. You can also access back issues that you might have missed.To use, just download the app and select your publication.
Daily Inter Lake
Stay informed with local news, weather, and sports updates delivered directly to your iOS devices. Customize your news feed and receive breaking alerts for important events. Share your own news and photos easily.
- Breaking news alerts
- Personalized news experience
- Share news and photos
- Local sports coverage
- Weather updates
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The Daily Inter Lake app is your source for local news, weather, sports and more. Keep up with all the local news you care about, delivered to your iOS devices. Download the free Daily Inter Lake app and easily access features specially designed with mobile users in mind: •Receive alerts when breaking news happens. •Share news and photos with us from wherever you are, whenever you want to, with just a few clicks on your phone or tablet. •Personalize your news experience. Customize your homepage and quickly find the stories you want to read. The Daily Inter Lake delivers more local news and sports than any other source in Northwest Montana. Use the Daily Inter Lake app to get all the news that matters to you most - anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NM Bluebird at 4.5 against Daily Inter Lake's 4.2. NM Bluebird also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (234 vs 60). 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.
NM Bluebird holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 234 and 60 respectively.
NM Bluebird ships an update every 6 months, Daily Inter Lake every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NM Bluebird | Daily Inter Lake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (234 ratings) — better | 4.2 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 234 — better | 60 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tecnavia | Hagadone Investment Co Inc |
Customer experience
NM Bluebird
Daily Inter Lake
Bugs and requests
NM Bluebird
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes after recent iOS updates
- Page turning swipe too sensitive causing accidental navigation
- Random logout and authentication failures
- Blank pages and content rendering issues
- Download hangs at 75% completion
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- Article expansion doesn't work consistently
- App goes to current issue when interrupted
- Article forwarding links show insecure source errors
- Reading pane scrolling issues on iPhone SE
- Screen goes blank when tapping in reading pane
Requested features
9 requests- Add New York Times to app
- Add Financial Times to app
- Add Barron's to app
- Add more newspaper publications
- Full-screen text reading mode
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- Ability to access earlier/archived editions by date selection
- Improved article forwarding security
- Voice reading speed adjustment controls
- Updated and modernized user interface
Daily Inter Lake
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NM Bluebird
No in-app purchases
Daily Inter Lake
No in-app purchases
