Comparison

Spill vs fig zine

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

Head to head
About

Spill

Connect with others through live audio, video, and chat. Discover trending topics, join or create communities, and engage in daily games. Share your ideas and art, or simply join the conversation.

Highlights
  • Discover trending topics
  • Create and join communities
  • Live audio, video, and chat
  • Share ideas and art
  • Play daily games
  • Virtual conversation spaces
Features
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See What’s Tea  -Discover the hottest Spills and most popular topics Find Your People  -Create your own Groups and discover communities from around the world Spill your way  -Share your ideas, art, inspiration or join in the conversation Go Live With Friends  -Create a virtual space for conversations with live audio, video & chat Play Daily Games  -Climb the Leaderboard with ‘What’s The Word’. Learn how to play Spades, or start a table of your own

About

fig zine

This social photo-sharing platform delivers personalized printed zines featuring content from people you follow. It offers a slower, ad-free social media experience focused on physical publications rather than endless digital scrolling.

Highlights
  • Personalized printed zine delivery
  • Follow artists, friends, and family
  • Create subscriptions for specific groups
  • Photos designed for print
  • Ad-free and no algorithmic feed
  • Creator payouts tied to circulation
Features
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The feed is your mailbox. fig is a social photo-sharing platform where the primary feed is physical. Follow artists, friends, family, photographers, makers, and anyone whose work you'd like to keep up with. Instead of endlessly scrolling through a digital feed, the people you choose become part of personalized printed zines delivered directly to your door. A slower kind of social media. HOW IT WORKS • Create a profile and share photos, create layered collages, and embed media like songs and videos • Follow people whose work you enjoy and want to receive in your own zines • Build personalized subscriptions around family, friends, artists, or any collection of people you choose • Receive personalized printed zines chock full of additional content DESIGNED FOR PRINT Every post on fig is created with print in mind. Photos are formatted to become part of a physical publication rather than disappearing into an endless timeline. NO ADS. NO ALGORITHMIC FEED. fig is funded by subscriptions, not advertising. There are no promoted posts. No engagement farming. No endless scrolling. Just the people you choose. FOR CREATORS We're building fig around a simple idea: The people making something worth mailing should share in its success. From the start, we plan to include creator payouts tied to circulation and subscriber demand. INDEPENDENTLY BUILT fig is founder-owned and independently operated. No venture capital. No advertising business. No outside pressure to maximize screen time. Just a different vision for what social media can be. Social media, printed.

Screenshots

Spill4 screens
fig zine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Spill at ad-supported against fig zine's subscription. Spill also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). fig zine's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

fig zine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spill has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spill ships an update every 9 days, fig zine every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spill versus fig zine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpillfig zine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size217 MB59 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperReal Spill CorporationCMYK RGB LLC

Customer experience

Spill

All ratings1,646 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive65.3%
Neutral8.4%
Negative26.2%

fig zine

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

Bugs and requests

Spill

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Difficulty changing email/phone number
  • Groups feature causing crashes
  • Misaligned UI elements on sign-up

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to edit/delete posts
  • Improve notification system
  • Integrate music/audio sharing
  • Expand group/community features

fig zine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spill

No in-app purchases

None

fig zine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spill free?
Spill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is fig zine free?
fig zine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spill or fig zine?
fig zine is rated higher. Spill averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while fig zine averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Spill or fig zine have ads?
Neither Spill nor fig zine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spill or fig zine?
Spill ships an update every 9 days, and fig zine every 3 weeks. Most recently, Spill was updated on October 30, 2026 and fig zine on October 28, 2026.

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