RainbowSpots vs Gay Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RainbowSpots
Discover and rate LGBTQ+ friendly venues in your area or any city. Share your experiences through text, images, audio, and video, and engage in discussions with other users.
- Discover LGBTQ+ friendly venues
- Search venues by city
- Rate venues on multiple criteria
- Add text, image, audio, and video comments
- Upvote/downvote user comments
- ChitChat feature for discussions
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Find and Rate a growing number of LGBTQ+ friendly venues near you. Show your PRIDE and support the Rainbow! Use RainbowSpots! FEATURES Discover: o View nearby venues that have expressed their LGBTQ+ friendliness o Enter a city to search for LGBTQ+ frienly venuse in that area Rate: o Select a venue of interest to see other user ratings o Provide your own rating in several different categories - LGBTQ+ Friendliness - LGBTQ+ Staffed - LGBTQ+ Owned/Managed - Price - Product Quality - Service Quality - Ambiance Comment: o Support your rating by providing additional text, images, audios, videos o Provide Up/Down thumb votes to support other user comments ChitChat Messages: o Introducing the new ChitChat feature to allow users to share their experience or opinions on various topics of interest. o Chime in with your Rainbow family members about Rainbow related topics of interest
Gay Widgets
Set up home screen widgets to count down to Pride events in over 50 cities worldwide. Customize with various flag themes and widget styles for your home screen, lock screen, or StandBy view. Offers offline functionality and privacy-focused design.
- Countdown to Pride events in 53 cities
- Home screen, lock screen, and StandBy widgets
- Multiple Pride flag themes
- Create multiple countdowns
- Offline Pride date data
- No account required
- Privacy-focused
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Gay Widgets by Pride Nav Ltd turns your iPhone into a daily countdown to Pride. Pick a city, choose a Pride flag style, and add a countdown widget to your home screen, lock screen, or StandBy view. Gay Widgets is built for people who want a small, joyful reminder of the next parade, festival, or Pride weekend they care about. Designed by the team behind Gay Map. WHAT YOU GET • Count down to Pride dates in 53 cities worldwide • Add Pride countdown widgets to your iPhone home screen • Use lock screen and StandBy widget styles • Choose rainbow and LGBTQ+ Pride flag themes • Create multiple countdown cards for different cities • Keep working offline with bundled Pride date data • Report a wrong Pride date with a source link so we can verify it • No account required and no tracking 50+ PRIDE CITIES Gay Widgets includes Pride dates for cities including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Brighton, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Munich, New York City, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Washington D.C., Zurich, and many more. GAY WIDGETS PLUS The free app includes core Pride countdowns and free Pride flag styles. Gay Widgets Plus unlocks more visual styles, custom cover images, additional widget sizes, ongoing Pride date refreshes, and future widget drops. WHO IT'S FOR People counting down to their local Pride. Travelers planning a Pride trip. Anyone who wants Pride on their home screen all year. PRIVACY Gay Widgets does not require an account and has no targeted ads. Your city, theme, and widget choices are stored on your device. If you report a wrong Pride date, the source link and notes you submit are sent to Pride Nav for editorial review. Gay Widgets is independently built and operated by Pride Nav Ltd. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gaymap.live/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gay Widgets at 5.0 against RainbowSpots's 3.0. Gay Widgets also leads on ads (none vs shown). RainbowSpots's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ratings volume 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. Gay Widgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. RainbowSpots asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gay Widgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | RainbowSpots | Gay Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TrampleZone LLC | Pride Nav Ltd |
Customer experience
RainbowSpots
Gay Widgets
In-app purchases
RainbowSpots
No in-app purchases
Gay Widgets
- Gay Widgets Plus$1.991 Month
- Gay Widgets Plus7 Days trial$5.991 Year









