Comparison

Mslexia vs Slightly Foxed

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

Head to head
About

Mslexia

This app offers a quarterly masterclass for women writers, featuring advice, inspiration, news, and creative works. It provides access to selected pages from the latest issue and a searchable archive of past content for subscribers.

Highlights
  • Creative advice and inspiration
  • News, reviews, and interviews
  • Poetry and prose selections
  • Searchable archive of past issues
  • Offline reading of synced back issues
  • Interactive page navigation
Features
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Mslexia tells you all you need to know about exploring your creativity and getting into print. No other magazine provides Mslexia's unique mix of debate and analysis, advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions, events, courses, grants. All served up with a challenging selection of new poetry and prose. Mslexia is read by top authors and absolute beginners. A quarterly masterclass in the business and psychology of writing, it's the essential magazine for women who write. 'diverse and brilliant' Fay Weldon 'intelligent and creative' Time Out ‘inspired, inspiring, invaluable’ Sarah Waters 'my favourite women's magazine' Wendy Cope 'the best I've read on the subject' Independent The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is available. You can subscribe within the application for full access, which brings you every page of the issue and a searchable archive back to Autumn 2007. Issues are not sold individually - for the duration of your subscription you have access to every issue in this archive. During your subscription you can sync back issues to your device. These will remain in place if your subscription expires, unless your device removes them (for example when running low on disk space). Re-downloading issues requires a current subscription. • Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page. • Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages. • Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom. • Switch between single or double-page view. • Search the current issue or the archive. • Tap any page links to web sites, email addresses, phone numbers or maps. • Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article. • Sync back issues to your device for offline reading (requires wi-fi). • Network connection required otherwise. We recommend first running the app within a wi-fi area so it can sync the latest issue to your device - after that you can use it anywhere. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically. Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices: £1.99 per month £19.99 per year In addition, please note the following standard features of auto-renewable subscriptions: • Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple Account Settings after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You can find our privacy policy here: https://exacteditions.com/about/privacy and our terms of service here: https://exacteditions.com/about/tos

About

Slightly Foxed

This quarterly book review magazine offers personal and entertaining essays on a wide range of books, focusing on those often overlooked by mainstream publications. Subscribers gain full access to current issues and a searchable archive dating back to 2004, with offline reading capabilities.

Highlights
  • Personal and entertaining book reviews
  • Focus on overlooked and classic books
  • Searchable archive back to 2004
  • Offline reading of synced back issues
  • Interactive page navigation
  • Bookmark and share pages
Features
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Slightly Foxed is a rather unusual quarterly book review. Unaffected by the winds of fashion and the hype of the big publishers, for the past nineteen years it’s been introducing its readers to some of the thousands of good books that long ago disappeared from the review pages and often from bookshop shelves. Companionable and unstuffy, it has a wide range of contributors – some well-known, some not – who all write personally and entertainingly about the books they choose. It’s not so much a review magazine as a magazine of enthusiasms – some of them quite quirky. When times are hard there’s nothing like a good read for putting things into perspective – so why not treat yourself to a subscription? We hope you’ll be able to say, with our subscriber the novelist James Hamilton-Paterson, ‘It’s the only cheque in the year that I’m actually happy to write.’ The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is available. You can subscribe within the application for full access, which brings you every page of the issue and a searchable archive back to Spring 2004. Issues are not sold individually - for the duration of your subscription you have access to every issue in this archive. During your subscription you can sync back issues to your device. These will remain in place if your subscription expires, unless your device removes them (for example when running low on disk space). Re-downloading issues requires a current subscription. • Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page. • Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages. • Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom. • Switch between single or double-page view. • Search the current issue or the archive. • Tap any page links to web sites, email addresses, phone numbers or maps. • Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article. • Sync back issues to your device for offline reading (requires wi-fi). • Network connection required otherwise. • Bookmark favourite pages or search results to read later. • Share links to pages with friends via social media. • If your institution has a magazine subscription, you can access it directly from within your registered IP range. We recommend first running the app within a wi-fi area so it can sync the latest issue to your device - after that you can use it anywhere. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically. Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices: £10.99 per quarter £39.99 per year In addition, please note the following standard features of auto-renewable subscriptions: • Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple Account Settings after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You can find our privacy policy here: https://exacteditions.com/about/privacy and our terms of service here: https://exacteditions.com/about/tos

Screenshots

Mslexia4 screens
Slightly Foxed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mslexia at 67% against Slightly Foxed's 50%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mslexia sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Slightly Foxed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mslexia versus Slightly Foxed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMslexiaSlightly Foxed
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.616.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMslexia Publications LtdSlightly Foxed Ltd

Customer experience

Mslexia

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Slightly Foxed

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mslexia

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$2.491 Month
  • Annual Subscription$23.491 Year
2 purchases

Slightly Foxed

Subscriptions2
  • Slightly Foxed$14.993 Months
  • Slightly Foxed$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Mslexia free?
Mslexia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slightly Foxed free?
Slightly Foxed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mslexia or Slightly Foxed have ads?
Neither Mslexia nor Slightly Foxed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mslexia or Slightly Foxed?
Mslexia ships an update every 4 months, and Slightly Foxed every 4 months. Most recently, Mslexia was updated on October 2, 2026 and Slightly Foxed on October 11, 2026.

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