Comparison

O'Reilly vs InfoQ Mobile

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

Head to head
About

O'Reilly

Access a vast library of expert-led books, videos, and courses on business and technology trends. Learn online or offline, sync progress across devices, and personalize your reading experience. Discover and organize content with playlists for easy access.

Highlights
  • Offline access to books, videos, and courses
  • Cross-device progress syncing
  • Content discovery and playlist creation
  • Personalized text display and night mode
  • Search across all learning materials
  • External keyboard support
Features
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Build the skills you need for the job you have—or the one you want. With the O’Reilly app paired with a membership, you’ll get access to thousands of books, videos, and courses trusted by tech practitioners around the world. Whether you’re a developer, data professional, or technology leader, O’Reilly helps you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. Here are just a few ways you can use the O’Reilly app to learn today’s most critical skills: • Explore the latest in programming, AI, cloud, DevOps, and cybersecurity, with content from the people actually putting the technology to work—plus in-depth content on leadership, soft skills, and much more. • Discover best-selling titles and early releases from leading publishers, all in one digital library built for technology professionals. • Listen to thousands of audiobooks to keep the learning going while you multitask. • Watch live events and training sessions, or dive into 5,000+ courses on-demand. • Use playlists to save and organize content you’re exploring, and share them with your friends and coworkers. • Learn on the go, anywhere, with downloadable content and progress syncing across devices. • Quickly find the resources that will help you solve the problems you encounter in your day-to-day work with AI-powered search, plus AI overviews (with citations) to get up to speed on the basics. Powerful tools to support your learning: • Recommendations based on your interests and history • Playlists to organize the content you want to learn • Deep search to find answers fast across 75K+ titles, 3.7K+ audiobooks, 30K+ hours of video, and much more • Highlights and notes to capture key ideas • Adjustable reading settings including font size and night mode • Playback speed controls for faster learning Get started with one of our most popular skills: • AI and machine learning • Software development and programming • Data engineering and data science • Cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure • Cybersecurity • Product management and leadership The O’Reilly app works best with a membership. Learn more at oreilly.com.

About

InfoQ Mobile

Enhance your conference experience with this app. Plan your schedule, access live event information, and interact with sessions. Enjoy seamless access to all events with a single login, optimized for both online and offline use.

Highlights
  • Personalized schedule planning
  • Live event mode for real-time updates
  • Session voting and feedback
  • Single sign-on for all conferences
  • Offline and online functionality
  • Favorite talks and build agenda
Features
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InfoQ Mobile brings the software engineering coverage practitioners already read on InfoQ.com to your phone — and turns into your conference companion when you attend QCon. WHAT'S ON INFOQ • News and in-depth articles on architecture, AI/ML engineering, platform engineering, languages, culture and methods • Recorded presentations from QCon and InfoQ Dev Summits, with video playback • The InfoQ Podcast and Engineering Culture Podcast • Save anything to Watch Later or your reading list and come back to it • Pick the topics you care about, and get notified when something lands YOUR QCON, IN YOUR POCKET • The full conference schedule by day, track and room • Star sessions to build a personal agenda • Speaker bios and talk abstracts • Tracks and track hosts, so you can follow a theme end to end • Workshops and social events alongside the main programme • Venue floor plans, so you find the room before the talk starts • Rate sessions and answer speaker surveys while the talk is still fresh • Push notifications for schedule changes and announcements • Connect with other attendees you meet during the event • Code of Conduct and event FAQ, always one tap away BUILT FOR HOW ENGINEERS ACTUALLY USE A PHONE • Light and dark themes that follow your system setting • Conference content is preloaded so the schedule stays usable on flaky venue Wi-Fi • Sign in once with your InfoQ account • Links from infoq.com open straight to the article, news item or presentation InfoQ is where senior software engineers, architects and technical leaders track what's actually being adopted — not just what's being announced. QCon is the conference built on the same principle: real practitioners describing systems they've run in production. Free to download. An InfoQ account (also free) unlocks personalisation; a QCon ticket unlocks the attendee features for that conference.

Screenshots

O'Reilly4 screens
InfoQ Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: O'Reilly at 46% against InfoQ Mobile's 0%. O'Reilly also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (34K vs 4). InfoQ Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

O'Reilly holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: O'Reilly has 34K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of O'Reilly's written reviews are positive against 0% of InfoQ Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

O'Reilly ships an update fortnightly, InfoQ Mobile every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
O'Reilly versus InfoQ Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterO'ReillyInfoQ Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (34K ratings) — better2.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews46.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.5 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperO'Reilly Media, Inc.InfoQ

Customer experience

O'Reilly

All ratings33,893 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews354 reviews
Positive46.0%
Neutral13.8%
Negative40.1%

InfoQ Mobile

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

O'Reilly

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Unreliable downloads and offline access
  • Login issues and loss of progress
  • Inconsistent behavior across updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved bookmarking and note-taking
  • Customizable text formatting and layout
  • Better search and content discovery
  • Seamless sync across devices

InfoQ Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

O'Reilly

No in-app purchases

None

InfoQ Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is O'Reilly free?
O'Reilly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is InfoQ Mobile free?
InfoQ Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, O'Reilly or InfoQ Mobile?
O'Reilly is rated higher. O'Reilly averages 4.7 out of 5 from 34K ratings, while InfoQ Mobile averages 2.3 from 4 ratings.
Do O'Reilly or InfoQ Mobile have ads?
Neither O'Reilly nor InfoQ Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, O'Reilly or InfoQ Mobile?
O'Reilly ships an update fortnightly, and InfoQ Mobile every 3 weeks. Most recently, O'Reilly was updated on October 24, 2026 and InfoQ Mobile on October 24, 2026.

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