DIVA Magazine vs RainbowSpots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DIVA Magazine
Europe's largest lesbian magazine delivers news, entertainment, travel, and real-life features. Access exclusive digital content, including videos and galleries, at a lower cost than print. Enjoy content anytime, anywhere.
- Lesbian and bisexual news
- Entertainment and music reviews
- Travel features
- Real-life stories
- Exclusive digital content
- Behind-the-scenes videos
- Picture galleries
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Having recently celebrated its 20th year, DIVA magazine remains Europe's biggest-selling lesbian magazine, offering the very best in lesbian and bisexual related news, entertainment, travel, music, film and real life features. DIVA Digital gives you everything you would expect to find in the print edition, but also includes bonus interactive features not found anywhere else, such as behind-the-scenes videos and exclusive picture galleries. When you subscribe to DIVA Digital you get all of this up to 48% cheaper than you would buying the print edition – plus you’ll enjoy DIVA anytime, anywhere, before it’s made available in the shops. ---------------------------------------------- This is a free app download. Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues. Subscriptions are also available within the application. A subscription will start from the latest regular issue at the time of purchase. -The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product. -You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. -Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased. -If a subscription offers a free trial, at the end of the trial period, you will be charged the full price of the subscription. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription settings on your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account. We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved. If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update, please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store Help and frequently asked questions can be accessed in-app and on pocketmags. If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: help@pocketmags.com -------------------- You can find our privacy policy here: http://www.pocketmags.com/privacy.aspx You can find our terms and conditions here: http://www.pocketmags.com/terms.aspx
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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DIVA Magazine at 45% against RainbowSpots's 0%. DIVA Magazine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). RainbowSpots's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, update cadence 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. DIVA Magazine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. RainbowSpots asks for nothing beyond the download.
DIVA Magazine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DIVA Magazine has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of DIVA Magazine's written reviews are positive against 0% of RainbowSpots's.
DIVA Magazine ships an update every 5 months, RainbowSpots every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DIVA Magazine | RainbowSpots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (17 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.2 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jellyfish Connect Limited | TrampleZone LLC |
Customer experience
DIVA Magazine
RainbowSpots
Bugs and requests
DIVA Magazine
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on opening
- Issues fail to download
- App freezes on startup screen
- Paid issues inaccessible after updates
- Blurry text and font
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- Login/register errors
- Inconsistent performance between devices (iPad vs iPhone)
- Page flipper interface issues
Requested features
6 requests- iPhone X support
- Fix app crashing issues
- Improve page turning/flipping interface
- Ensure consistent availability of issues on download
- Address login/register problems
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- Improve text clarity and reduce blurriness
RainbowSpots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DIVA Magazine
- DIVA Magazine$3.991 Month
- DIVA Magazine$18.996 Months
- DIVA Magazine$22.991 Year
- May 2011 (id:404054)$2.99
- April 12 (id:363134)$2.99
- August 2011 (id:404064)$3.99
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- April 14 (id:362569)$3.99
- April 13 (id:362567)$3.99
- January 15 (id:363133)$3.99
- December 2016 (id:417334)$3.99
RainbowSpots
No in-app purchases







