CNN: Live & Breaking News vs X
CNN: Live & Breaking News
CNN Interactive Group, Inc.
App Store
$2.21M/mo
~$26.53M/yr · 282.9M installs
VS
X
X Corp.
App Store
$10.00M/mo
~$120.00M/yr · 974.5M installs
Revenue winner
X wins
+352% vs other
Installs winner
X wins
+244% vs other
MAU winner
X wins
+68% vs other
Rating winner
CNN: Live & Breaking News wins
+4% vs other
Why X is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- X earns roughly 5× more per month than CNN: Live & Breaking News - $10.00M vs $2.21M.
- Premium pricing. X charges $4.00/mo vs CNN: Live & Breaking News's $3.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. X has ~974.5M lifetime installs vs CNN: Live & Breaking News's ~282.9M - 3.4× the funnel top.
- More monetization surfaces. X runs 10 IAP tiers vs 4 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
CNN: Live & Breaking News
vs
X
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$2.21M
▶
$10.00M
Annual revenue (est.)
$26.53M
▶
$120.00M
Lifetime installs (est.)
282.9M
▶
974.5M
Monthly active users (est.)?
11.6M
▶
19.5M
App Store rating
4.77★
◀
4.58★
Total ratings
1.7M
▶
10.8M
US grossing rank
-
▶
#47
Cheapest monthly sub
$3.99
▶
$4.00
IAP tiers detected
4 tiers
▶
10 tiers
- Category
- News
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Sep 29, 2009
- Last updated
- Jun 22, 2026
- File size
- 189.5 MB
- Content rating
- 17+
- Version
- 26.13
- Languages
- English
- Category
- News
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Oct 9, 2009
- Last updated
- Jul 1, 2026
- File size
- 498.1 MB
- Content rating
- 17+
- Version
- 12.5
- Languages
- Arabic, BN, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech +35 more
CNN: Live & Breaking News trajectory
X trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, CNN: Live & Breaking News or X? v
X earns about $10.00M per month, while CNN: Live & Breaking News earns about $2.21M. That is a 4.5× revenue gap (~$7.79M more per month for X). Annual revenue: CNN: Live & Breaking News ≈ $26.53M/year, X ≈ $120.00M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, CNN: Live & Breaking News or X? v
X leads with about 974.5M estimated downloads vs 282.9M for CNN: Live & Breaking News - a 3.4× gap. CNN: Live & Breaking News's App Store downloads are estimated from 1.7M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. X's App Store downloads are estimated from 10.8M ratings.
Are CNN: Live & Breaking News and X in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the News category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do CNN: Live & Breaking News and X offer? v
CNN: Live & Breaking News: IAP range 4 tiers detected. X: IAP range 10 tiers detected. CNN: Live & Breaking News runs a "Subscription (~$5.83/mo)" monetization model; X runs "X · calibrated to ground-truth (~$10.0M/mo on App Store)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, CNN: Live & Breaking News or X? v
CNN: Live & Breaking News edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.6 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: CNN: Live & Breaking News 1.7M ratings, X 10.8M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these CNN: Live & Breaking News vs X revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $2.21M for CNN: Live & Breaking News and $10.00M for X are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (News) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare CNN: Live & Breaking News or X to a different App Store app? v
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