CHEK Mobile vs Voyent Alert!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHEK Mobile
Access local news, weather forecasts, sports updates, and community events. Stream live broadcasts and on-demand video content. Receive breaking news alerts for Vancouver Island communities.
- Local news updates
- Weather forecasts
- Sports highlights
- Events calendar
- Live streams
- Video on demand
- Breaking news notifications
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The CHEK Mobile app is your source for local news and information, weather, sports, events calendar, livestreams, video on demand, and more! We’ve rolled CHEK+ live streams and on-demand video newscasts into this app as well. Get all your favourite CHEK shows and news in one app! Get push notifications of breaking news, watch video, and read the latest stories from Vancouver Island communities including: Victoria, Saanich, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich Peninsula, West Shore, Sooke, Malahat, Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Oceanside, Comox Valley, Campbell River, Alberni, Tofino, Sayward, Port McNeill, Port Hardy and everywhere in between. Get sports highlights from Donnie and Dhali, including the Canucks, WHL Royals, the BCHL, Shamrocks, Harbourcats, UVic Vikes and more. You can also find out how to contact us if you have breaking news, want to provide feedback or advertise.
Voyent Alert!
Receive critical event and general communications from local governments and organizations. Notifications are customized for your followed locations, offering contextual information like direction and distance to events, along with enriched media.
- Customized notifications by location
- Critical event alerts
- General day-to-day communications
- Direction and distance to events
- Enriched media (images, PDFs, links)
- Concise and relevant information
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Voyent Alert! is a smart notification service that enables users to receive critical event and general day-to-day communications from participating municipalities, regional governments and organizations. The Voyent Alert! communications are customized for each user’s followed locations (e.g. "Home", "Work", "Kid's School", "Mobile Phone"). Users can be provided with notifications containing greater situational context, such as direction and distance to a critical event based on their location as well as enriched media such as images, PDFs and hyperlinks to more information. Voyent Alert! provides concise information when you require it and ensures you are not saturated with notifications that are not relevant to you. Stay Alert. Stay Connected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CHEK Mobile at 5.0 against Voyent Alert!'s 4.6. Voyent Alert!'s advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
CHEK Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voyent Alert! has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of CHEK Mobile's written reviews are positive against 14% of Voyent Alert!'s.
CHEK Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Voyent Alert! every 4 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | CHEK Mobile | Voyent Alert! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (80 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better | 13.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 80 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHEK News | ICEsoft Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
CHEK Mobile
Voyent Alert!
In-app purchases
CHEK Mobile
No in-app purchases
Voyent Alert!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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