macrumors.com
MacRumors
Who runs MacRumors, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- 9to5Mac
Measured from MacRumors’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MacRumors01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MacRumors
MacRumors macrumors.com
Apple News and Rumors
Wikidata: website focused on news relating to Apple, Inc.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MacRumors tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
8 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MacRumors
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MacRumors, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
9to5Mac - Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Very close - 02 AppleInsider appleinsider.com
news website
Very close - 03
Macworld - News, Tips & Reviews from the Apple Experts
Macworld is your ultimate guide to Apple's product universe, explaining what's new, what's best and how to make the most out of the products you love.
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iMore - Apple News, Reviews, Deals, & Help | Learn more. Be more.
The ultimate guide to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Don't miss our news, reviews, & how-tos, and the latest on MacOS and iOS.
Very close - 05
Cult of Mac | Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.
Cult of Mac | Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.
Very close - 06
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 07
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
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CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close - 10
Android Police: Android news, reviews, guides, editorials, and more
All the latest mobile tech news, deals, reviews, guides, editorials, and more. Embracing the green bubble since 2009.
Very close - 11
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close - 12
TechRadar | Dein Technik-Kaufberater
Die aktuellsten News und Produkttests im Bereich Technik, Computer, Home Entertainment Systeme, Gadgets und mehr
Very close - 13 TechSpot techspot.com
computer and tech enthusiast website
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more...
GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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GIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und Haushalt
Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.
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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
Very close - 19
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
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Very close - 20 venturebeat.com Top 10K
American technology news and analysis website
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MacRumors’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MacRumors uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MacRumors adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MacRumors’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Marketing automation
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zend…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631924af851a62-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zend…
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zend…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jade.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=2chFMYB39niK09_arOo3aI5N9S4gT1ulmcF59gqmZhU
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=8dXY1m9IhJfMjk7MU5_l33ER25yvywveCwK55…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Ik_fwjSyxxV5JjzTyAhpBMVOas8edqxZl9lRRtOtqeE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on macrumors.com 13/20
- PHP · not on macrumors.com 12/20
- WordPress · not on macrumors.com 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on macrumors.com 9/20
- nginx · not on macrumors.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on macrumors.com 6/20
- Parse.ly · not on macrumors.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on macrumors.com 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on macrumors.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on macrumors.com 5/20
- Adobe Fonts · not on macrumors.com 3/20