Handwoven vs Advance! AF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Handwoven
Explore the world of handweaving with a digital magazine. Each issue offers projects, instructions, and inspiration to enhance your skills and design creativity. Stay updated with the latest trends and techniques in the handweaving community.
- Handweaving projects
- Technical skill instruction
- Design confidence building
- Inspiration for weavers
- Digital magazine format
- Subscription access to current and future issues
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Connect with the handweaving world through Handwoven. Every issue is packed with projects, instruction and inspiration to help you build technical skills and design confidence. The subscription will include the current issue if you do not already own it and subsequently published future issues. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. This subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period, your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. The cost of the renewal will match the initial subscription price. You may turn off auto-renewing subscriptions by going to your user’s Account Settings after purchase. Please find our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy here: https://longthreadmedia.com/terms-of-use/ https://longthreadmedia.com/privacy-policy/
Advance! AF
This app provides a digital edition of Advance! magazine, featuring exclusive content for Scientologists with an IAS membership. Access spiritual freedom, success stories, and news from AOSH Africa on your phone or tablet. Stay updated with new issues and videos, and bookmark your favorite articles.
- Digital magazine access
- Exclusive content for IAS members
- Success stories and news
- Bookmark favorite articles
- New issue notifications
- Exclusive videos
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A magazine for Scientologists from the Advanced Organisation and Saint Hill Africa. The Advance! magazine app is accessible to anyone with an IAS membership number. It’s time to enter the gateway to spiritual freedom, where abilities are heightened and a world of wins awaits. From a Castle on a hill in Africa, the exclusive services and the soaring success stories are at your fingertips with the Advance! magazine app. Access your OT Kingdom with the Advance! magazine app It’s your gateway to higher states of existence, a regal setting for a journey to spiritual freedom. Now you can tap into all the news and the stories from AOSH Africa with a digital edition of Advance! magazine. Download and read anytime, anywhere It’s Advance! magazine enhanced and optimised for viewing on your phone or tablet. Save your favourites Bookmark any article or video for easy viewing anytime you open the app. You are there Get a panoramic view of our glorious hilltop setting and a look inside the Castle Kyalami. Exclusive videos let you share the adventure of those moving to the upper spans of the Bridge. Stay up-to-date As soon as a new issue or new video drops, you’ll be notified, so you’re always plugged into AOSH Africa. Africa is calling your name Get swept up with the winds of change blowing from AOSH Africa. With the Advance! magazine app, you are virtually there in our OT Kingdom. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3 1. Download the app 2. Log on with your IAS membership number to gain access to content 3. Enter the OT Kingdom at AOSH Africa Swipe to Advance! Get the Advance! magazine app today
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Verdict
Handwoven and Advance! AF both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Advance! AF's written reviews are positive against 63% of Handwoven's. Advance! AF also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 28). Handwoven's advantage is ratings volume (302 vs 11) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Handwoven sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Advance! AF asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Handwoven against 4.8 for Advance! AF. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handwoven has 302 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Handwoven's written reviews are positive against 100% of Advance! AF's.
Handwoven ships an update every 5 months, Advance! AF every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Handwoven | Advance! AF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (302 ratings) — better | 4.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 302 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Long Thread Media LLC | Church of Scientology International |
Customer experience
Handwoven
Advance! AF
Bugs and requests
Handwoven
Reported bugs
6 issues- App won't open
- Bookmarks have no photos
- Bookmarks have disappeared
- Search function is useless/doesn't work
- No access since last update (requires subscription)
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- Patterns cannot be printed
Requested features
3 requests- Improve search sophistication (designer, yarn, loom)
- Fix bookmark photos
- Allow printing of patterns
Advance! AF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Handwoven
- 1 Month Subscription$2.491 Month
- One Year Subscription$34.991 Year
- 1 Year Subscription$34.991 Year
- March-April 2019$7.99
- November-December 2019$7.99
- January-February 2020$7.99
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- March/April 2020$7.99
- September/October 2020$7.99
- May/June 2021$7.99
- May/June 2022$7.99
- September/October 2022$7.99
- November-December 2015$7.99
- May/June 2020$7.99
- Winter 2026$7.99
- Spring 2025$7.99
- May-June 2014$7.99
- March-April 2017$7.99
- November/December 2022$7.99
- March-April 2016$7.99
- November-December 2017$7.99
- March/April 2023$7.99
- January/February 2021$7.99
- September-October 2017$7.99
- Spring 2024$7.99
- Spring 2026$7.99
- January-February 2016$7.99
- November/December 2020$7.99
- May-June 2015$7.99
Advance! AF
No in-app purchases
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