RA Guide vs Electric State
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
Electric State
Experience a 24-hour global music and talk radio stream. Tune into live artist interviews, discover new and unreleased tracks, and engage with a community forum. Plus, enter monthly ticket giveaways for exciting opportunities.
- 24-hour global music and talk radio
- Live artist interviews
- New and unreleased music
- Discussion forum
- Monthly ticket giveaways
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Electric State is your all-access pass to live music and events. Discover shows happening tonight, tomorrow, and this weekend near you — then check in, earn XP, and unlock badges as you go. Track your concert history, build your music passport, and level up your status with every event you attend. From local clubs to major festivals, Electric State Passport puts the full live music scene at your fingertips. Features: • Location-aware event discovery — tonight, tomorrow, this week • Check in at shows to earn XP and unlock exclusive badges • Save events you're interested in • Personal passport with your full check-in history • Submit events to grow the community • Clean, fast, built for music lovers
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Verdict
RA Guide and Electric State both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Electric State's written reviews are positive against 52% of RA Guide's. Electric State also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). RA Guide's advantage is ratings volume (8.1K vs 8) and chart position (#140 vs unranked). 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 — 4.9 for RA Guide against 5.0 for Electric State. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RA Guide has 8.1K ratings behind it against 8, 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 100% of Electric State's.
RA Guide ships an update weekly, Electric State every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RA Guide | Electric State |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.1K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.1K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #140 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Resident Advisor | Casey Olayos |
Customer experience
RA Guide
Electric State
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
Electric State
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RA Guide
No in-app purchases
Electric State
No in-app purchases
