RA Guide vs Parookaville
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RA Guide
Discover the world's best dancefloors and electronic music events, personalized to your tastes and location. Find your favorite artists, buy tickets instantly, and never miss a gig.
- Personalized event discovery
- Find DJs and electronic music events
- Buy tickets instantly
- Listings in 120+ countries
- Follow favorite artists and clubs
- Add artists from music library
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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
Parookaville
This app provides essential information for attendees of a large electronic music festival. It features a detailed lineup, schedule, interactive map, and important festival details. Stay updated with push notifications and manage your experience with cashless payment options.
- Line-up and timetable
- Interactive GPS festival map
- Push notifications
- Food & beverage overview
- Cashless payment
- Ticket and merchandise shop
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PAROOKAVILLE Discover the official app of Germany’s largest electronic music festival (Airport Weeze). Parookaville is far more than a music festival. The “City of Dreams” unites madness, love, and pure bliss and creates a limitless space for freedom and creativity. In the app, you’ll find everything a Parookaville Citizen needs to know: Line-up, timetable, the coolest places to be, and much more. Choose your favorite artists and never miss a show thanks to the reminder feature! Discover the city with the interactive GPS festival map and stay up to date at all times with push notifications! SPECIAL FEATURES: Detailed timetable Artist overview Food & beverage overview Push notifications Festival and camping information Ticket shop Merchandise shop Cashless payment Stay tuned with the Parookaville app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: RA Guide at 8.2K against Parookaville's 2. RA Guide also leads on chart position (#18 vs unranked). Parookaville's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 — 4.9 for RA Guide against 5.0 for Parookaville. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RA Guide has 8.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of RA Guide's written reviews are positive against 54% of Parookaville's.
RA Guide ships an update every 11 days, Parookaville every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RA Guide | Parookaville |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.2K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews | 53.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.2K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Resident Advisor | Parookaville GmbH |
Customer experience
RA Guide
Parookaville
Bugs and 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
Parookaville
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RA Guide
No in-app purchases
Parookaville
No in-app purchases
