Aesthetica vs Crowned
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aesthetica
This app delivers a visually stunning mix of contemporary art and visual culture through a bi-monthly digital magazine. It explores global art, film, music, and performance, offering critical debate and engaging content. Subscribers can sync back issues for offline reading and access content from registered IP ranges.
- Sync back issues for offline reading
- Searchable archive
- Interactive page navigation
- Bookmark favorite pages
- Share content via social media
- Institutional IP access
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Aesthetica is a visually stunning mix of photography, debate and stimulating features. It is an essential magazine for readers looking to keep up to date with contemporary art and visual culture. Published bi-monthly, Aesthetica engages with the arts both in the UK and internationally, combining dynamic content with compelling critical debate and exploring the best in visual art, film, music and performance. 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 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: Two months £4.49 Annual £21.99 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
Crowned
This app helps you build consistent hair care routines with guided brushing sessions and progress tracking. It also features a wolf tracker to monitor hair growth phases and a kit to log your products.
- Guided brushing sessions with timer
- Daily routine tracking (durag, wash day)
- Wolf tracker for hair growth phases
- Progress photo and timelapse creation
- Hair product and kit logging
- Hair texture and brushing guides
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Waves aren't luck. They're a month you can see — if you show up every day. Crowned is the brush timer and routine tracker built for that. GUIDED BRUSH SESSIONS Pick soft, medium, or hard, set your time, and follow the dial through all eight angles from the crown out. The session tells you where to brush and when to move on, so every stroke goes toward the pattern. Sounds, haptics, and keep-awake are yours to toggle. THE HABIT Home shows your day at a glance: brushes done, durag on, wash day coming up. A calendar strip keeps the tally, and reminders for morning brush, evening brush, durag, and wash day fire on your schedule. THE WOLF Log your last cut, set a goal, and Crowned counts the days. Guides walk you through every phase, from fresh growth to the itch to the reveal, so you know what's normal and what's next. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Take a progress shot from the same angles each week. Slide before against after, build a timelapse of the whole wolf, and watch your streaks, badges, and 31-day habit grid fill in. YOUR KIT Track the pomade, oils, and brushes you actually use, and log what went on your head each day. GUIDES THAT RESPECT YOUR HAIR Find your crown. Know your texture, from straight to coily. Pick the right brush for the week you're in. Learn the brushing angles for 180s, 360s, 540s, and 720s. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. Your sessions, photos, and streaks stay on your iPhone. Keep the streak. Keep the spin.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crowned at none against Aesthetica's 2. Crowned also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Aesthetica's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Aesthetica sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per 2 months. Crowned asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crowned holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Aesthetica | Crowned |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aesthetica Magazine Ltd | Kamali Smith |
Customer experience
Aesthetica
Crowned
In-app purchases
Aesthetica
- Aesthetica$5.492 Months
- Aesthetica$25.491 Year
Crowned
No in-app purchases









