ShowFinder vs Custom Car Magazine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShowFinder
Discover automotive events, cruise-ins, and museums across the US and Canada. Browse detailed event information, view photo galleries, save favorites, and share with friends. Submit corrections or new events to keep the database comprehensive.
- 90,000+ automotive events
- 4,700+ cruise-ins
- 300+ museums
- Location-specific results
- Photo galleries
- Save events to favorites
- Add events to calendar
- Share events via social media/text/email
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ShowFinder is your personal guide to over 90,000 automotive events, 4,700 cruise in's & 300 museums in the US and Canada. Our collection of data is the largest of its kind serving you location specific results, photo galleries and event info which is easy to save and share with friends! This app is created for auto show lovers by auto show lovers! With ShowFinder you can select specific states you would like to find events in, or use your GPS location and select a radius. When browsing events check out photo galleries to see cars from that event. When you find an event worth saving you can add it to your favorites list and also save it to your local calendar. We even save the specific dates & times in your calendar for each event. If you really like what you see and want to share it, you can choose to post the event to Facebook, Twitter, Email or Text it to a friend. If by chance you find some info to be incorrect in ShowFinder, you can easily submit to us your changes for review. Also, if you don’t see your event added, you can submit it from the app and we will contact you to verify the info before posting. ShowFinder is dedicated to providing the most complete list of updated and accurate auto event’s in the US and Canada. We hope you enjoy using our app as much as we enjoyed making it :)
Custom Car Magazine
Explore the world of customized cars, hot rods, and dragsters with this magazine app. Get the latest news, event coverage, technical articles, and feature cars from the UK's original modified motoring publication.
- Latest custom car news and features
- Hot rod and street machine coverage
- Drag racing scene updates
- Technical articles and project cars
- Event coverage
- Back issue purchases
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Launched in 1970, Custom Car is the UK’s original modified motoring magazine. A leading magazine for all things in the customised car world. Custom Car is still the best magazine to bring you the latest round-up of custom cars, hot rods and street machines making waves in the custom car scene around the world. From low budget traditional hot rods and customs to hi-tech street rods and 250mph drag strip pounders, the expert team of writers bring together event coverage, technical articles, project cars, news and reviews and feature cars every month. Find out how some of these amazing creations have been put together, the latest goings-on at the heart of the UK drag-racing scene and what else is going on in the world of modified cars. ---------------------------------------------- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShowFinder at 3.3 against Custom Car Magazine's 1.0. ShowFinder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Custom Car Magazine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month. ShowFinder asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShowFinder holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowFinder has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ShowFinder ships an update every 10 months, Custom Car Magazine every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShowFinder | Custom Car Magazine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (24 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHFT LLC | Assignment Media Ltd |
Customer experience
ShowFinder
Custom Car Magazine
In-app purchases
ShowFinder
No in-app purchases
Custom Car Magazine
- Custom Car Auto-Renewable Subscription$5.491 Month
- Custom Car Auto-Renewable Subscription1 Month trial$42.991 Year
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- No.537 Infinite... (id:738860)$4.99
- Custom Car Augu... (id:739934)$4.99
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- Custom Car Bundle$5.99
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Questions
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