Sporting Gun Magazine vs Hoofpick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sporting Gun Magazine
This digital magazine offers in-depth content for clay, game, and rough shooters. It covers topics like gundog training, equipment advice, and shooting techniques. Access current and back issues, or subscribe for ongoing content.
- Clay, game, and rough shooting content
- Gundog training articles
- Equipment and technique advice
- Pigeon shooting features
- Wildfowling coverage
- Digital issue purchases
- Subscription options
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Sporting Gun is the leading monthly magazine for clay, game and rough shooters. With editorial offices in the Lincolnshire countryside, it can justifiably claim to be at the heart of the shooting community. Monthly features range from gundog training to pigeon shooting, game shooting to wildfowling – along with sound, practical, advice on equipment and techniques to help the beginner, intermediate or experienced shot get more enjoyment from their sport. Sporting Gun is a must for anyone who invests time in and money on their shooting. ---------------------------------------------- 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
Hoofpick
This app serves as a comprehensive content management system for equestrian businesses, enabling them to create and manage listings for services, events, and classifieds. It also allows individual users to track event entries, bookings, and market transactions.
- Classified listings management
- Event creation and management
- Bookable services management
- Auction and market listings
- Club membership management
- User event entries tracking
- User booking and appointment management
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Hoofpick - no serious equestrian should be without it! The hoofpick app is a complete content management system for equestrians and equestrian sport businesses. For the equestrian business, the hoofpick app can create and manage content for: • classified listings • events • bookable services • auction listings • market listings • club memberships • staff accounts • news & blog listings And then using the various integration options available within the hoofpick app, the equestrian business can feed their content seamlessly to: • their mobile app • their websites • their facebook page • their hoofpick profile For the equestrian user, the hoofpick app can record and manage: • event entries • bookings and appointments • market transactions • bookmarked classifieds/news/events/services
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hoofpick at none against Sporting Gun Magazine's 10. Sporting Gun Magazine's advantage is iOS requirement (11.2 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Sporting Gun Magazine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Hoofpick asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sporting Gun Magazine ships an update every 5 months, Hoofpick every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sporting Gun Magazine | Hoofpick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Time Well Spent Group Limited | Paul Sher |
Customer experience
Sporting Gun Magazine
Hoofpick
In-app purchases
Sporting Gun Magazine
- Sporting Shooter$2.991 Month
- Sporting Shooter 1 Month$3.491 Month
- Sporting Shooter$8.993 Months
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- Sporting Shooter 3 Month$8.993 Months
- Sporting Shooter$17.996 Months
- Sporting Shooter$26.991 Year
- Sporting Shooter 1 Year$28.491 Year
- Sporting Shooter Digital, Sporting Shooter November 2013$3.99
- November 2023 (pp:1001545)$4.99
- June / 298 (pp:1017171)$4.99
Hoofpick
No in-app purchases
Questions
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