2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd vs The Beyond
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd
Explore vast comic universes featuring iconic characters like Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper. Access over 1800 comic books and graphic novels with free peeks and offline reading. Subscribe for exclusive offers and DRM-free downloads.
- Infinite comic universes
- Iconic character library
- Over 1800 comic books
- Free comic peeks
- Offline reading
- DRM-free downloads
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Discover the Galaxy’s Greatest Comics – dive into infinite universes with the new 2000 AD app! Install now to discover your new favourite comics – from the future lawman Judge Dredd to the ultimate future warrior Rogue Trooper, from the fantasy realms of Sláine the Barbarian to the slow-burn sci-fi horror of ‘Brink’! New readers can dive in to over 1800 comic books and graphic novels from 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, and the Treasury of British Comics on our newly enhanced app. Get FREE peeks of some of the cosmos’s best stories, filled with action and adventure with black humour and a dark satirical edge! Subscribe to 2000 AD or the Judges Dredd Megazine now to get up to THREE MONTHS of FREE back issues and have the latest editions delivered direct to your device! Fans can download issues onto the app for unlimited offline reading or visit the 2000 AD webshop with the same log-in details for DRM-free downloads of all your purchases! Welcome to your infinite futures, Earthlets – this is the new and improved 2000 AD app!
The Beyond
Explore a cosmic adventure through romance, piracy, and death in this interactive comic. Make choices that shape your unique story, with hundreds of possible paths. Features full audio accessibility for an immersive experience.
- Interactive storytelling
- Multiple branching paths
- Cosmic adventure themes
- Redesigned infinite scroll canvas
- Full audio accessibility (VoiceOver)
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THE BEYOND: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide. Can you find your way through the doors of the great library of the Beyond? THE BEYOND is not an ordinary comic. YOU make the choices that determine how the story unfolds. THE BEYOND splits off into hundreds of different adventures. - A cosmic adventure through romance, piracy, and death. - Completely redesigned by the author for an infinite scrollable canvas. - Full audio accessibility with VoiceOver; every panel and choice can be spoken.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd at Free against The Beyond's $3.99. 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). The Beyond's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On ads 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
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd is free to download; The Beyond costs $3.99 up front. 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. The Beyond asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Beyond holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd ships an update monthly, The Beyond every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd | The Beyond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Rebellion 2000 AD | Zarfhome Software Consulting |
Customer experience
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd
The Beyond
Bugs and requests
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd
Reported bugs
161 issues- Comics don't unpack and load properly
- Pages load randomly after many minutes
- Store pages take an age to load
- Payments are laggy
- Back issues not free when advertised
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- App is slow and often non-responsive
- Will not give access to purchases
- Takes forever to log in
- Crashes all the time
- Constantly crashes
- Takes forever to log in
- Nothing ever loads
- Unlimited comics but still have to buy them
- New items aren't listed for sale
- Items bought are missing from library
- Buggy graphics display
- Error 500
- Collection presented on a single page, out of order
- Search is unreliable
- Filter doesn't update correctly
- Couldn't read a single page of comic, jumps pages, reloads constantly
- Payment taken but prog not available to download
- Unable to verify payment yet takes payment
- Finding old purchases is impossible
- Some purchases freeze the app
- Navigation to next issue impossible
- Prog number not shown in title
- No way to search for unread material
- Can't sort downloaded issues on date
- Library has become unreadable
- Hangs, jumps pages, terrible to navigate
- Prog 2400 is the latest issue allowed for download
- Previously downloaded issues don't have 'Read' footer
- Always crashing
- Never saves bookmarks
- Only partially downloads the Meg
- Getting slower to the point of being unusable
- Many pages show up as speech bubbles only
- Goes back to page one frequently
- Continually getting signed out of account
- Zooming and scrolling is awkward and constantly sticks
- Flipping between landscape and portrait mode loses page
- Contact support frequently about access to latest editions
- Constantly logged out
- Unusable in portrait mode
- Moves page when moving between portrait and landscape
- Purchases dumped together rather than in directories
- Hard to see what's new to purchase
- Issues with already downloaded books
- Navigating library not good
- Settings not accessible in main app settings
- Battery and time icons do not disappear
- Currently reading titles pick up at the very start
- Some comics can't go beyond a certain point
- Image quality is very poor and blurry
- Titles bought aren't shown in library
- Can't find past purchases without searching
- Search does not find everything purchased
- Downloaded items don't show in downloaded area
- More titles area doesn't show full content available
- Search does not find all relevant titles
- Previous comics are gone
- Carousel scales all over other elements
- Browse/library interface limits filtering
- Removes sorting by time
- Truncated descriptions
- Reading comics is painfully slow with occasional jumping of pages
- Only half of library shows up
- Have to log in EVERY SINGLE TIME
- Doesn't save reading progress
- Reader crashes after twenty pages
- Woefully unreliable
- App is dire
- Have to sign out/in, hard close and/or ‘restore purchases’ at least once a week
- Frequently get a ‘failed to download content’ message
- Sort by read doesn't work
- App won't let me download old purchases
- Purchase goes through but stuck on 'purchase' for hours
- Says 'queued' for several more hours
- App took money but issue won't download and doesn't show up as a purchase
- App zooms in then gets stuck and is unresponsive
- App is utterly unreliable
- App is poor
- Doesn't reflect subscriptions paid in comics available
- Every attempted download gets an instant error message
- Can't download content paid for
- Locked out of weekly comic
- Purchasing and downloading is unreliable
- No one responds to support requests
- Constantly getting blank thumbnails
- App says I don't have a subscription
- Can't download issues
- Downloads forgotten
- Perpetually stuck on pending
- Green screen halfway through a book
- Doesn't have a single place to see all purchases
- Multiple instances of issues refusing to load
- Fails to successfully register a purchase
- Purchasing an issue requires multiple steps and sometimes prompts to buy again
- New issues only appear after returning to main screen
- Constantly signing out
- No subscription recognized
- Won't download
- Account page times out
- Store page does not show subscriptions
- Shows only a grey square where product graphic should appear
- Pricing often does not appear
- Keeps losing bookmarks
- Slow, unresponsive, difficult to navigate, prone to freezing
- Forgetting who I am, what I've purchased, not being able to download, unsyncing purchases
- Doesn't work on Amazon tablets
- Subscriptions going missing, paused or queued downloads, blank screens
- App either not telling you or not knowing it logged you out
- Navigation is terrible
- Trying to find owned comics is horrendous
- Reading on smaller than 10 inch iPad is impossible
- Logs out constantly
- Blank screens
- When it works it's fine
- Subscription issue not showing
- Screen going Tharg green
- Refusing to restore purchases
- No comic at all this week
- Previous years' comics gone
- Logs me out every time I quit the app
- Queues all issues even when only one is selected
- Doesn't download any issues
- Have to delete and reinstall to download one issue
- Subscription issue fixed by deleting and reinstalling
- Double page viewing (or lack of it)
- Slow and unresponsive on iPad
- Tapping buttons randomly highlights text instead
- Regularly signing me out
- Regularly saying I'm not subscribed
- App borders on unusable
- Have to log in and out several times to download new issues
- Setting screen to maximum brightness
- Randomly ordering issues in library
- Subscription asks to pay for issues already included
- Takes forever to load
- Often won't let me buy specials because price doesn't come up
- Unresponsive when tapping links
- Prog itself takes forever to load
- Often unresponsive to page turns
- Freezes when enlarging sections
- Starts with a starting logo not loading
- Interface is clunky
- New content a pain to find
- Can't get the app to load to the open screen
- Clunky, slow, pages take forever to load
- Crashes occasionally
- Unupdated for Retina
- Unable to download purchases (server issues)
- Doesn't automatically detect double page spreads
- Pairing of pages goes wrong
- Doesn't preload pages
- Lost place when switching apps
- iPad has frozen up
- Bug ridden, inconsistent reader app
- Download problems, purchase issues
- No T&C, no sign up
Requested features
32 requests- Option to download from the app
- Better organization/filing system for collections
- Search function for unread material
- Marking read content
- Guided view for easier reading on smaller screens
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- Dark mode option
- Folder for all purchased and downloaded content
- Ability to sort library by date
- Persistent login
- Fixing subscription recognition issues
- Rollback to previous stable version
- Search function
- Guided-view like ComiXology
- Folder for all purchased and downloaded content
- Mark what you've read
- Fix subscription recognition issues
- Fix green screen issue
- Fix subscription not showing issue
- Fix double page viewing
- Fix login/ID process
- Fix app crashing
- Fix pages not loading
- Fix unresponsive buttons
- Fix loss of bookmarks
- Fix issues with double page spreads
- Fix issues with page pairing
- Fix preloading pages
- Fix losing place when switching apps
- Fix iPad freezing
- Fix download problems
- Fix purchase issues
- Fix terms and conditions rendition
The Beyond
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd
- Judge Dredd Megazine$6.991 Month
- 2000 AD Subscription$10.991 Month
- Judge Dredd Megazine$18.993 Months
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- 2000 AD Subscription$31.993 Months
- Judge Dredd Megazine$62.991 Year
- 2000 AD Subscription$117.991 Year
- 2000 AD Prog 2500$2.99
- Judge Dredd: Case Fi3 variants$9.99
The Beyond
No in-app purchases
Questions
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