The Simple Things Magazine vs PKai Salons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Simple Things Magazine
This magazine app offers inspiration for a well-lived life, focusing on mindful living, home, nature, and simple pleasures. Each issue provides seasonal content, recipes, projects, and creative ideas.
- Mindfulness and microadventures
- Home life and slow moments
- Seasonal content
- Recipes and weekend projects
- Poems, stories, and playlists
- Digital issue purchases
- Subscription options
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The Simple Things is a beautiful, useful, quirky and fun magazine about taking time to live well. We cover eating and growing, mindfulness and microadventures, forgotten wisdom, home life and slow moments. It's for people who love their lives but want to take the pressure off and remember what’s really important. We like tea & cake, learning stuff, being outside and the satisfaction of a job well done. Do you? Every month we publish 132 pages of seasonal loveliness, ideas and inspiration to dip into. Includes a poem, a story and a playlist, plus our ‘could-do’ list, recipes and weekend projects. ---------------------------------------------- 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
PKai Salons
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The PKai Salons app makes booking your appointments and managing your loyalty points even easier. You're just a few taps away from feeling good and looking great! With our App, you can: * Book your next appointment 24/7 * Meet our team and choose your favourite * Keep a record of your appointments * Keep track of your Treatcard loyalty points * Get exclusive special offers, straight to your phone * Register and manage your account And More
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PKai Salons at none against The Simple Things Magazine's 47. PKai Salons also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). The Simple Things Magazine's advantage is update cadence (every 16 months vs every 49 months). On price, 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. The Simple Things Magazine sells 47 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per 3 months. PKai Salons asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Simple Things Magazine ships an update every 16 months, PKai Salons every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Simple Things Magazine | PKai Salons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (29 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months — better | Every 49 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Iceberg Press Limited | Pkai Ltd |
In-app purchases
The Simple Things Magazine
- The Simple Things$14.993 Months
- The Simple Things$55.991 Year
- November 2015 (pp:756676)$6.99
- January 2017 (pp:756662)$6.99
- December 2016 (pp:756663)$6.99
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- November 2016 (pp:756664)$6.99
- September 2016 (pp:756666)$6.99
- April 2016 (pp:756671)$6.99
- March 2016 (pp:756672)$6.99
- February 2016 (pp:756673)$6.99
- May 2017 (pp:756658)$6.99
- December 2022 –... (pp:792269)$6.99
- February 2023 –... (pp:895688)$6.99
- January 2024 (id:708140)$6.99
- November 2023 (id:708142)$6.99
- December 2023 (id:708141)$6.99
- April 2024 (pp:1011730)$6.99
- January 2018 (pp:756650)$6.99
- Mar-26 (pp:1130605)$6.99
- January 2026 (pp:1109281)$6.99
- November 2014 (pp:756688)$6.99
- November 2020 ... (pp:756616)$6.99
- February 2022 –... (pp:792309)$6.99
- October 2023 (id:708143)$6.99
- July 2025 (pp:1109287)$6.99
- June 2025 (pp:1109288)$6.99
- May 2025 (pp:1109289)$6.99
- April 2025 (pp:1109290)$6.99
- April 2023 – 130 (pp:895680)$6.99
- March 2025 (pp:1109291)$6.99
- February 2024 ... (pp:1011738)$6.99
- February 2018 (pp:756649)$6.99
- February 2025 (pp:1109292)$6.99
- January 2025 (pp:1011694)$6.99
- December 2024 (pp:1011698)$6.99
- December 2020 –... (pp:756615)$6.99
- November 2024 (pp:1011702)$6.99
- November 2019 (pp:756628)$6.99
- October 2020 – 100 (pp:756617)$6.99
- September 2024 (pp:1011710)$6.99
- October 2024 (pp:1011706)$6.99
- September 2017 (pp:756654)$6.99
- September 2020 (pp:756618)$6.99
- August 2024 (pp:1011714)$6.99
- July 2019 (pp:756632)$6.99
- June 2018 (pp:756645)$6.99
- June 2024 (pp:1011722)$6.99
PKai Salons
No in-app purchases
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