Handwoven vs Resource Guides
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/
Resource Guides
Explore your faith with a series of reflection guides designed for spiritual growth. These guides offer a structured approach to understanding and deepening your spiritual journey.
- Spiritual reflection guides
- Faith exploration tools
- Structured spiritual journey
- Personal growth focus
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Maryknoll Society offers a series of reflection guides called "SEE, DISCERN, AND GO FORTH" to help you explore your faith.
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Verdict
Handwoven and Resource Guides both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Resource Guides's written reviews are positive against 63% of Handwoven's. Resource Guides also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 28). Handwoven's advantage is ratings volume (302 vs 2). 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. Resource Guides asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Handwoven against 5.0 for Resource Guides. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handwoven has 302 ratings behind it against 2, 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 Resource Guides's.
Handwoven ships an update every 5 months, Resource Guides every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Handwoven | Resource Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (302 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 302 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Long Thread Media LLC | Maryknoll |
Customer experience
Handwoven
Resource Guides
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
Resource Guides
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
Resource Guides
No in-app purchases
Questions
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