CDA Dubai vs Pilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CDA Dubai
Access a wide range of community services from your smart device. This app provides a centralized platform for social benefits, human rights complaints, media, and support for the elderly.
- Social Benefits Access
- Human Rights Complaints
- Social Studies & Research
- Media Centre
- Elderly Services
- CDA Events
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Community Development Authority is proud to launch CDA Dubai. Using this App, you can access all community services including Social Benefits, Human Rights Complaints, Social Studies and Research, Media Centre, elderly services, CDA Events and more from your Smart devices.
Pilot
Discover new TV shows with personalized recommendations based on your favorite actors and directors. Log, rate, and review episodes, seasons, and shows, and share your thoughts with friends. Keep track of what you've watched and what's coming up next.
- Personalized show recommendations
- Log, rate, and review episodes/seasons/shows
- Create and share custom lists
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Maintain a watchlist
- New episode notifications
- Collaborate on watchlists
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Pilot is all about discovering shows and sharing your opinions with your friends, with exclusive recommendations tailored to the actors and directors you love - all ad-free. What you can do • Log, rate, and review shows, seasons, and individual episodes, with the date you watched • Keep a diary of everything you've watched, in order, backdated if you logged it late • Build unlimited lists of shows, seasons, episodes, or actors, and share them • Follow friends and see what they're watching and what they thought • Keep a watchlist, and pick up where you left off from the home screen • Get notified when a show you're watching drops a new episode • See what premieres next, including shows that haven't aired yet • Collaborate with friends on watchlists and rankings • Go deeper with the actors you love through recommendations based on your watching across all platforms Reviews can be public or friends only. Drafts stay private until you publish. Free, with no ads and no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pilot at 100% against CDA Dubai's 3%. Pilot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). CDA Dubai's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pilot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of CDA Dubai's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pilot's.
CDA Dubai ships an update every 3 weeks, Pilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CDA Dubai | Pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 2.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Community Development Authority | Amit Venugopal |
Customer experience
CDA Dubai
Pilot
In-app purchases
CDA Dubai
No in-app purchases
Pilot
No in-app purchases
