Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 03:57 am
PolitiTruth – News Game Review
PolitiTruth is a News/Trivia game from Cinq-Mars Media, first launched in 13th June 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 35+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes PolitiTruth Stand Out
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
Swipe left to guess a news story is false and swipe right to guess it is true. The game is made in partnership with the Pulitzer Prize winning organization PolitiFact in the hopes of encouraging players to better discern sources of information while gathering beneficial statistics on public misconceptions. By tapping into our competitive nature, we hope to expand political consciousness.
Guesses are anonymously saved online to show how your political awareness compares to other players, and to help identify the stories people get wrong most often.
Data on public misconceptions in politics is highly reliant on surveys and our hope is with a large audience of people playing, we can make these statistics more robust and reduce response bias.
The game is premiering at E3 2017 through the IndieCade showcase.
PolitiTruth was created by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis and is part of Cinq-Mars Media, a 501(c)3 devoted to education.
www.cinqmarsmedia.com
www.politifact.com
This News game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, PolitiTruth is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Updated for 2024 with the latest PolitiFact checks.
Download & Availability
PolitiTruth is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
App could be fun but its only giving us false statements so theres no statement to guess. We can just keep swiping false and Im always right.
Also entertaining are the reviews where people cannot handle the truth when it doesnt mesh with their closely held tribal beliefs. Haha.
Had a blast playing this. No bugs as far as we can see. And despite what some reviewers say, it treats all sides with equal scrutiny. Like a bad team blaming the referee, some people dont like that. We are pretty left wing and our tactic of marking any conservative as false definitely didnt work. Ive learned lots of new stuff we didnt know before.
Good bipartisan fact checking. Judging by other reviews, some people just can't handle the truth.
The app is interesting and helps with learning politics but there could be a few changes. The first is maybe different game modes like vs where players compete against each other. Another is adding more detail to statements like allowing us to see not just the initials of ice but the full name. Also, allowing us to have more detail on the people who say quotes such as a short summary of their opinions could help. Finally, maybe adding a way to contact politifact for more info on a quote could help and letting us ask questions about the background and quote.
It is hard to truly know which news sources are truly unbiased. But we believe they make an honest effort here. The conservatives saying otherwise in your reviews, why dont you send them your own ideas for questions or corrections? If their standard for including a question was it cant make a republican look bad, they wouldnt have a game.
This app helps find the truth and explains how the truth was arrived at. Pay no strength to those rating the app low because they don't like it being pointed out that they are believing lies. One suggesting for improvement: It makes for awkward reading to start a quiz item with the word "Says…" And then put the name of the source at the bottom of the screen. It would make more sense to start the item in this manner: [name of person or publication] says [whatever they said]. Thank you for this wonderful and fun tool.
We think the app should be more about just the facts and not necessarily who said them. Mainly because we think it should be a quiz that tests the users knowledge of important facts. Not a quiz about who the user thinks is lying. Who said it could be revealed after the user guesses. Focusing on quizzing the user on facts, we think will make it more fun. Plus users wont feel as though their party or political views are being attacked. When we play, we cover up who said it so Im not influenced by our personal opinion of the speaker. Its harder that way (which is somewhat disconcerting).
As others have noted, some items begin with someone says, then they make a statement. Are we to judge on whether or not the person said it or whether or not its true? Some are scored one way, some the other. Raises frustration level.
Some confusion on questions which are worded like, Person A says that Person B says that Trump wears a wig. Are we judging Person A (did B actually make the statement?), or are we judging the veracity of the statement itself.
Sometimes the questions are confusing. Person X said "blah, blah, blah". Well, yes they did so we say true but the thing they said is false. How about "statement" (said by whomever) and you true/false the statement.
Could be good but its registering correct answers as incorrect. Really annoying. Right swipes are called as left swipes. Deleting now. Booo.
It is repeatedly not clear whether we are being "asked" is a statement is true, or it is true that the person said it.
A bunch of stupidity and bias opinions.
It used to be fun, but now the facts are so old it's more of a memory game than a fact check. Wish the developers would update it. We're deleting it.
Hasnt been updated since 2017.
When a right leaning fact is displayed that would support the parties reputation, the quotes are slightly changed to make them technically false because they didnt say it word for word. Also some facts are false before the fact checker used an opinion based statement to prove it wrong Do your own research.
This game is biased and in favor of Liberals. It uses outdated material on conservative matters.
Love playing this. Awesome concept and we're a big fan of politifact.
It says Trump is sometimes telling the truth.
Was worried it might be partisan but it's fair to both sides.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.0
- Size: 25.86 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Cinq-Mars Media
Last updated: 21st August 2024 | Genre: News, Trivia | Developer: Cinq-Mars Media