Practical Fishkeeping vs The Numismatist Magazine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Practical Fishkeeping
Access expert advice on keeping tropical, marine, and freshwater fish. Discover the latest aquarium equipment reviews, fish species guides, and aquascaping tips. This app provides comprehensive resources for both aspiring and experienced fishkeepers.
- Expert fishkeeping advice
- Aquarium equipment reviews
- Fish species guides
- Tropical marine tank advice
- Freshwater and cold water tank advice
- Aquascaping tips
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Practical Fishkeeping (PFK) magazine is the world’s leading authority on keeping, or aspiring to keep, fish – covering tropical, marine, cold water and fresh water fish. All our features are written by experts in their fields, ensuring you get the best advice possible on fishkeeping and fish species, as well as creating and maintaining fantastic aquatic environments for them to live in. Inside you’ll find: • The latest aquarium equipment reviewed • Tips on how to look after and keep your fish • Expert guides to global fish species • Advice on tropical marine tanks • Advice on freshwater: tropical and cold water tanks • Expert advice on aquascaping PFK is published 13 times a year and is Britain's biggest-selling fish-keeping magazine. ---------------------------------------------- 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 issue. -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
The Numismatist Magazine
This digital magazine offers in-depth articles on coins, tokens, medals, and paper money. Access back issues, search content, and enjoy interactive features for collectors. Subscribers receive new issues automatically.
- In-depth articles on numismatics
- Access to back issues
- Searchable content
- Interactive page navigation
- Offline reading of synced issues
- Social media sharing
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The Numismatist is a colorful, high-quality, educational magazine for collectors of coins, tokens, medals and paper money. Published since 1888 by the nonprofit American Numismatic Association (www.money.org), The Numismatist features 112-120 pages of informative, illustrated articles about the historical and entertaining aspects of numismatics; reports of hobby events and new coinage issues, including the U.S. Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarter Program and Presidential Dollar series and advertising by nationally respected coin dealers. 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. • Social Media sharing feature allowing you to share pages with friends. • If your institution has a magazine subscription, you can access it directly from within your registered IP range. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically. Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices: Annual $48.99 Monthly $4.99 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Practical Fishkeeping at 4.8 against The Numismatist Magazine's 3.7. Practical Fishkeeping also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (31 vs 3). 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
Both are free to download. Practical Fishkeeping sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and The Numismatist Magazine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Practical Fishkeeping holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Practical Fishkeeping has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Practical Fishkeeping ships an update every 5 months, The Numismatist Magazine every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Practical Fishkeeping | The Numismatist Magazine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (31 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Warners Group Publications PLC | American Numismatic Association |
Customer experience
Practical Fishkeeping
The Numismatist Magazine
Bugs and requests
Practical Fishkeeping
Reported bugs
15 issues- Restoring previous issues not working
- Purchased mags vanished
- Current issues not in library
- Can't access any purchases
- New app deleted copies and won't recognize user
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- App crashes continually
- App crashes when launched
- Issues won't download
- Download stops halfway
- New issue hangs on loading
- App won't open
- Download stops at 43.06%
- Embedded video issue with iPad 1 owners
- Paid for subscription that doesn't work
- Keeps crashing when trying to download paid editions
Requested features
3 requests- Allow screen rotation
- More interactive features like other magazines
- Access for paper subscribers to digital copies
The Numismatist Magazine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Practical Fishkeeping
- PFK 1M Auto-Renewable Sub$3.991 Month
- Practical Fishkeeping Subscription$7.992 Months
- Practical Fishkeeping Subscription7 Days trial$17.993 Months
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- Practical Fishkeeping Subscription$24.996 Months
- Practical Fishkeeping Summer Sale Subscription$31.991 Year
- PFK - Annual Backissues$38.991 Year
- PFK 12M Auto-Renewable Sub1 Month trial$69.991 Year
- PFK: Practical Fishkeeping4 variants$3.99
- March 2025 (pp:1110457)$5.99
- February 2026 (pp:1136699)$5.99
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- August 2023 (id:704742)$5.99
- April 2023 (id:823926)$5.99
The Numismatist Magazine
- The Numismatist$4.991 Month
- The Numismatist$48.991 Year
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