Comparison

RainbowSpots vs Gay Widgets

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

RainbowSpots4 screens
Gay Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
RainbowSpots versus Gay Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainbowSpotsGay Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB3 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperTrampleZone LLCPride Nav Ltd

Customer experience

RainbowSpots

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Gay Widgets

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

RainbowSpots

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Gay Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • Gay Widgets Plus$1.991 Month
  • Gay Widgets Plus7 Days trial$5.991 Year

Questions

Is RainbowSpots free?
RainbowSpots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gay Widgets free?
Gay Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RainbowSpots or Gay Widgets?
Gay Widgets is rated higher. RainbowSpots averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gay Widgets averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RainbowSpots or Gay Widgets have ads?
RainbowSpots shows ads; Gay Widgets does not.

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