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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to MacRumors match.
- 01
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Very close - 02
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Very close - 03
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Very close - 04
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 05
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Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.
Very close - 06
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
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Very close - 07
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
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Very close - 08
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 09
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Very close - 10
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Very close - 11
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
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Very close - 12
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Very close - 13
Home - The GitHub Blog
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Very close - 14
Techmeme
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Very close - 15
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Very close - 16
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
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Very close - 17
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 18
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Very close - 19
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
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Very close - 20
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 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