The Times: UK & World News vs X

The Times: UK & World News

Times Media Limited (Apps)
App Store
$99/mo
~$1.2K/yr · 1K installs
VS

X

X Corp.
App Store
$10.00M/mo
~$120.00M/yr · 974.5M installs
Revenue winner X wins +10100910% vs other
Installs winner X wins +65625858% vs other
MAU winner X wins +6371352% vs other
Rating winner X wins +143% vs other

Why X is winning

Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. X earns roughly 101010× more per month than The Times: UK & World News - $10.00M vs $99.
  2. Aggressive pricing. X undercuts at $4.00/mo vs $10.00/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. X has ~974.5M lifetime installs vs The Times: UK & World News's ~1K - 656259.6× the funnel top.
  4. More monetization surfaces. X runs 10 IAP tiers vs 3 - more chances to convert users at the right price.

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Side-by-side metrics

Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.

The Times: UK & World News
vs
X
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$99
$10.00M
Annual revenue (est.)
$1.2K
$120.00M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1K
974.5M
Monthly active users (est.)?
305.91
19.5M
App Store rating
1.89★
4.58★
Total ratings
27
10.8M
US grossing rank
-
#47
Cheapest monthly sub
$10.00
$4.00
IAP tiers detected
3 tiers
10 tiers

The Times: UK & World News

Times Media Limited (Apps)
App Store
Category
News
Price
Free
Released
Aug 6, 2025
Last updated
Jun 30, 2026
File size
308.3 MB
Content rating
12+
Version
12.5.0
Languages
English
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X

X Corp.
App Store
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
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FAQ

Which makes more money, The Times: UK & World News or X? v
X earns about $10.00M per month, while The Times: UK & World News earns about $99. That is a 101010.1× revenue gap (~$10.00M more per month for X). Annual revenue: The Times: UK & World News ≈ $1.2K/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, The Times: UK & World News or X? v
X leads with about 974.5M estimated downloads vs 1K for The Times: UK & World News - a 656259.6× gap. The Times: UK & World News's App Store downloads are estimated from 27 ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. X's App Store downloads are estimated from 10.8M ratings.
Are The Times: UK & World 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 The Times: UK & World News and X offer? v
The Times: UK & World News: IAP range 3 tiers detected. X: IAP range 10 tiers detected. The Times: UK & World News runs a "Subscription (~$10.00/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, The Times: UK & World News or X? v
X edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 1.9 (gap of 2.7 stars). Rating volume: The Times: UK & World News 27 ratings, X 10.8M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these The Times: UK & World News vs X revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $99 for The Times: UK & World 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 The Times: UK & World News or X to a different App Store app? v
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