sharemagazines vs CampfireFM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
sharemagazines
Access a digital library of newspapers and magazines for free at participating locations like hotels, cafes, and waiting rooms. Enjoy a paperless reading experience on your smartphone or tablet, with seamless transitions between different venues.
- Free access to newspapers and magazines
- Read at participating locations
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- Paperless reading experience
- Works on smartphones and tablets
- Seamless location transitions
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Your digital reading experience. Turn waiting time into reading time. In hotels, medical practices, hair salons, clinics and libraries with sharemagazines, you can enjoy the most popular magazines and newspapers free of charge on your own smartphone or tablet. Simply scan the QR code at the venue and start reading. How it works: 1. Open the app at a venue offering sharemagazines 2. Scan the QR code or connect to the venue’s Wi-Fi 3. Choose your favourite title and start reading – no registration, no cost What you can expect: * Hundreds of magazines and newspapers – national and international, always up to date * Popular titles including Stern, DER SPIEGEL, BILD, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Handelsblatt, auto motor und sport, Schöner Wohnen and many more * Clearly organised by category: News, Lifestyle, Health, Sport, Food & Drink, Technology and more * Up-to-the-minute news from sources including Euronews, Mirror and Express * Puzzles such as Sudoku and crosswords * Information about your venue, including opening hours, services and more Why sharemagazines? Digital. Hygienic. Diverse. Simply what you want to read – all in one app! You decide what to read and for how long. Enjoy! You can find sharemagazines at more and more venues near you. https://sharemagazines.de/
CampfireFM
Experience podcasts together with a community and hosts. Access bonus content like photos and links directly within episodes. Engage with hosts through voice messages and comments between episodes.
- Listen and discuss podcasts together
- Bonus content linked to episodes
- Host interaction via voice messages and comments
- Community discussions
- Direct host engagement
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CampfireFM is the podcast community you’ve been waiting for: here, you don’t just listen to podcasts – you experience and discuss them together with the community, often even with the hosts themselves. The podcasts on our platform also come with bonus content: photos, links, and everything mentioned in the episodes can be found right at the relevant point in the app. Plus, there’s even more between episodes – like voice messages, photos, and comments from the hosts. If you have questions, find a bug or just want to leave us some feedback, write us at support@joincampfire.fm Terms of use: https://www.joincampfire.fm/legal/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: sharemagazines at none against CampfireFM's 10. sharemagazines also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). CampfireFM's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. CampfireFM sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. sharemagazines asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for sharemagazines against 5.0 for CampfireFM. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of sharemagazines's written reviews are positive against 55% of CampfireFM's.
sharemagazines ships an update monthly, CampfireFM every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | sharemagazines | CampfireFM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews — better | 55.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sharemagazines GmbH | CampfireFM GmbH |
Customer experience
sharemagazines
CampfireFM
In-app purchases
sharemagazines
No in-app purchases
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