Spill vs fig zine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Discover trending topics
- Create and join communities
- Live audio, video, and chat
- Share ideas and art
- Play daily games
- Virtual conversation spaces
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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
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Spill | fig zine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Real Spill Corporation | CMYK RGB LLC |
Customer experience
Spill
fig zine
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
Spill
No in-app purchases
fig zine
No in-app purchases









