Laneway Festival vs RA Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Laneway Festival
This app provides essential information and planning tools for the 2026 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival across Australia and New Zealand. Discover artists, plan your schedule with alerts, and stay updated with the latest news and event details.
- Artist discovery
- Schedule planner with alerts
- Artist information
- Event details
- Festival news updates
- Event maps
- Social media integration
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Welcome to the official St. Jerome's Laneway Festival app for 2026. We're psyched to once again deliver a two week long festival extravaganza across Australia and New Zealand. The Laneway app returns in 2026 with a freshed design and user friendly functionality so all you savvy festival goers can easily store key info safely in your hip pocket. Use the app pre-festival to discover more about your (new) favourite artists and stay on top of the latest news and competitions leading up to the 2026 events. Plan your day with the schedule feature and receive alerts during the festival so you don't miss a beat. Features: Discover your new favourite artists Schedule planner with alerts Artist info Event info Laneway news Event maps Connect with social media App powered by BigLive.co
RA Guide
Discover the best dancefloors and electronic music events worldwide, personalized to your tastes and location. Never miss a show from your favorite artists and easily purchase tickets.
- Personalized event discovery
- Find DJs and electronic music events
- Buy tickets instantly
- Download tickets to Apple Wallet
- Listings in 120+ countries
- Follow favorite artists and clubs
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The world has thousands of good dancefloors. RA Guide helps you discover the great ones. Entirely personalised to your tastes and location, the RA Guide helps you find the world's best parties. The app ensures you never miss a show from your favourite artist and allows you to buy tickets in seconds with Apple Pay. RA Guide: The ultimate guide to DJs, clubs and events. - Personalised events discovery based on your favourite artists - Find the best DJs and electronic music events near you - Buy tickets to 1000s of selected events and download to Apple Wallet - Pay with Apple Pay, PayPal or debit/credit card - Listings in 120+ countries - Log in with your Apple Account or your RA account - Add your favourite DJs and artists from your iTunes and Apple Music library - Follow your favourite DJs, artists and clubs to get custom listings - Never miss a gig from your favourite artists
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Verdict
Laneway Festival and RA Guide both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 52% of RA Guide's written reviews are positive against 8% of Laneway Festival's. RA Guide also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 1) and chart position (#79 vs unranked). Laneway Festival's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Laneway Festival against 4.9 for RA Guide. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RA Guide has 8.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 8% of Laneway Festival's written reviews are positive against 52% of RA Guide's.
Laneway Festival ships an update weekly, RA Guide every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Laneway Festival | RA Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 51.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #79 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | St Jerome's Laneway Festival | Resident Advisor |
Customer experience
Laneway Festival
RA Guide
Bugs and requests
Laneway Festival
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RA Guide
Reported bugs
5 issues- App Crashes
- Ticket Resale Issues
- Payment Integration Problems
- Verification Failures
- Inconsistent Functionality
Requested features
6 requests- Add Genre and Event Type Filters
- Save Recent Searches
- Allow Typing in Locations
- Integrate with Apple Wallet
- Add Artist Links and Sounds
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- Include News and Articles
In-app purchases
Laneway Festival
No in-app purchases
RA Guide
No in-app purchases
Questions
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