Comparison

Kono Digital Magazines vs ClayCraft

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

Head to head
About

Kono Digital Magazines

Access a vast library of digital magazines across various categories, including business, fashion, and lifestyle. Enjoy an enhanced reading experience with customizable text modes, offline downloads, and personalized recommendations. This subscription service offers a convenient way to stay informed and entertained.

Highlights
  • 300+ latest magazines
  • Exclusive Smarticle Technology
  • Customizable text mode
  • Offline downloads
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Audio read feature
Features
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Kono Magazine is a premium subscription-based reading app offering a wide range of magazines, including business & finance, fashion & beauty, and interior design. While our library covers diverse interests, we provide an extensive collection of top-tier Chinese business and finance magazines, delivering premium content and market insights from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. To maximize your reading efficiency, our exclusive "Smarticle" technology seamlessly transforms traditional magazine layouts into a highly optimized, easy-to-read text mode perfect for smartphones and tablets. Features like Offline Downloads and Personalized Recommendations help you build a customized knowledge library to stay ahead of industry trends anytime, anywhere. 【 Current Hot Magazines】 Finance|商業周刊、今周刊、經濟一週、經理人月刊、天下雜誌、哈佛商業評論、彭博商業周刊/中文版 Technology|PC home 電腦家庭、數位時代、iPhone, iPad玩樂誌 Fashion|ELLE 她、VOGUE、美麗佳人、Bella儂儂、Harper's Bazaar、 Language|ABC互動英語、互動日本語、CNN互動英語、English Digest實用空中美語、Fighting! KOREA韓語學習誌 Japan and South Korea|&Premium、Casa Brutus、anan、アニメディア、POPEYE、25ans、Oggi、CanCam、週刊SPA!、GoodsPress、GO OUT、Woman Sense Other popular|VERSE、康健雜誌、小日子享生活誌、一手車訊、早安健康 Welcome Gift|Free Selected Magazines, Just for You! 1. Ultimate Magazine Collections Kono Magazine partners with renowned publishers to offer a curated selection of over 300 popular titles. For business professionals, we feature leading finance and management magazines from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, such as 商業周刊, 天下雜誌, 財訊雙週刊, 今周刊, 彭博商業周刊/中文版, and more. Beyond business contents, our library also boasts premium fashion and lifestyle publications like VOGUE, ELLE, and GQ. You can discover exclusive interviews, magazine covers and spreads featuring top celebrities and artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. Furthermore, Kono is your ultimate destination for Japan publications. With a massive collection of exclusive Japanese magazines, such as &Premium, Casa Brutus, anan, アニメディア, POPEYE, Oggi and more. Whether you are passionate about Japanese culture, trends, fashion, idols, or anime, you will find exactly the magazines you want to read right here. 2. Original "Easy-to-read Text Mode" - Exclusive Smarticle Technology: Kono goes beyond traditional PDFs by reformatting magazines into multiple articles, creating a smoother, blog-like reading experience. - Customizable Reading: Adjust the font size to your preference and switch freely to dark mode to reduce eye strain and fatigue. - Accessible TTS (Text-to-Speech): Listen to articles while commuting, exercising, or anytime you can’t keep your eyes on the screen. 3. “User-Friendly” Functions Kono Magazine is dedicated to creating the best e-magazine reading app for readers.Here are 6 features that allow you to read magazines anytime, anywhere. - Offline reading - Audio Read - Personal Recommender - Favorites and Recent Reads - Ad-free - Multi-platform reading 【Subscription】 Monthly and Yearly VIP subscription plans are available. Actual pricing will be displayed on the purchase page based on your App Store region. First subscription includes a 14-day free trial. Users can cancel at any time during the free trial period, and will be charged only after the subscription begins. This product uses adopts auto-subscription mode. If you do not wish to renew, please disable auto-renewal at least 24 hours before your current subscription period ends. Your account will be charged according to the selected subscription plan within 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. • Privacy Policy:https://www.thekono.com/privacy • Service Agreement:https://www.thekono.com/policy

About

ClayCraft

Discover inspiring and challenging pottery projects with this magazine. Each issue offers practical guides, features on artists, and expert advice for all skill levels. Explore the relaxing and therapeutic aspects of working with clay.

Highlights
  • Pottery project guides
  • Features on potters
  • Expert advice
  • Inspirational content
  • Digital magazine format
  • Pocketmags account integration
Features
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ClayCraft is a brand new magazine for this growing hobby with each issue including fun, inspirational and challenging pottery projects for you to try at home. Our editor, Rachel Graham, writes… Whether you are a student, a hobby potter, or have an established studio, we want you to enjoy reading about this wonderful stuff called clay! What is it about it that’s so appealing? Everyone I meet tells me that they find handling clay relaxing and, in lots of cases, therapeutic. Maybe it speaks to an ancient part of our psyche; man has been digging up mud, making it into vessels and putting it into a fire for thousands of years. And now we have refined this to the point where it’s both part of our everyday lives, and an inspiring artistic medium. Whatever your level of involvement, whatever you take from it, it’s going to be a positive experience, and ClayCraft will add to that, with practical hands-on guides, in-depth features on established, and emerging, potters, and plenty of good advice from our experts. Happy potting! ---------------------------------------------- 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

Screenshots

Kono Digital Magazines4 screens
ClayCraft1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: ClayCraft at free with in-app purchases against Kono Digital Magazines's subscription. ClayCraft also leads on iOS requirement (11.2 vs 13.0). Kono Digital Magazines's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and review sentiment (84% vs 60%). 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. Kono Digital Magazines sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ClayCraft sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kono Digital Magazines holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kono Digital Magazines has 101 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Kono Digital Magazines's written reviews are positive against 60% of ClayCraft's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kono Digital Magazines ships an update fortnightly, ClayCraft every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kono Digital Magazines versus ClayCraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKono Digital MagazinesClayCraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (101 ratings) — better4.5 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings101 — better13
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB106 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKono Digital Inc.Kelsey Publishing Group

Customer experience

Kono Digital Magazines

All ratings101 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive83.7%
Neutral8.2%
Negative8.2%

ClayCraft

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Kono Digital Magazines

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 6-Months Subscription$37.996 Months
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$64.991 Year
15 purchases

ClayCraft

Subscriptions2
  • ClayCraft$4.991 Month
  • ClayCraft1 Month trial$49.991 Year
One-time13
  • Issue 11 (pp:459608)$5.99
  • Issue 9 (pp:459610)$5.99
  • Issue 8 (pp:459611)$5.99
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  • Issue 7 (pp:459612)$5.99
  • Issue 5 (pp:459614)$5.99
  • Issue 2 (pp:459617)$5.99
  • Issue 1 (pp:459618)$5.99
  • Issue 41 (pp:631143)$5.99
  • Issue 91 (id:715256)$5.99
  • Claycraft - In... (pp:1004653)$11.99
  • Claycraft - Po... (pp:1004648)$11.99
  • Claycraft - Th... (pp:1004643)$11.99
  • GlazeSurfacegui... (pp:994209)$14.99

Questions

Is Kono Digital Magazines free?
Kono Digital Magazines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClayCraft free?
ClayCraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kono Digital Magazines or ClayCraft?
Kono Digital Magazines is rated higher. Kono Digital Magazines averages 4.7 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while ClayCraft averages 4.5 from 13 ratings.
Do Kono Digital Magazines or ClayCraft have ads?
Neither Kono Digital Magazines nor ClayCraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kono Digital Magazines or ClayCraft?
Kono Digital Magazines ships an update fortnightly, and ClayCraft every 12 months. Most recently, Kono Digital Magazines was updated on September 23, 2026 and ClayCraft on August 15, 2026.

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