This Android flagship won our best iPhone 18 Pro alternative survey by a landslide

The latest Pixel plays second fiddle to its biggest Android rival. This Android flagship won our best iPhone 18 Pro alternative survey by a landslide. This is the best iPhone 18 Pro alternative according to our readers.

Mobile iPhone and iPad This Android flagship won our best iPhone 18 Pro alternative survey by a landslide The latest Pixel plays second fiddle to its biggest Android rival. As good as the lineup looks this year, especially the Pro in its Burgundy colorway, it’ll be a tough buy for many, many people, especially readers of. Naturally, our readership leans towards Android devices, but, given this bias, we wanted to know which phone you’d rather buy over the iPhone 18 Pro.

My colleague Shimul Sood offered up her quintet of potentials, but which is our readers’ favorite. Well, there’s a landslide winner in our newest poll, and it’s not the Pixel 11 Pro. The best iPhone 18 Pro alternative according to our readers Andy Walker / We received just under 2,300 votes on this poll, and with Android flagships like the Pixel 11 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, and the Motorola Razr Ultra (2026) in the running, we expected a closely contested battle.

61.5% of respondents believe that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the best iPhone 18 Pro alternative.