RA Guide vs Lissen
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
Lissen
This interactive music platform combines streaming with direct artist support. Fans earn rewards for listening, and their contributions directly benefit their chosen artists. Discover new music while empowering creators.
- Interactive music streaming
- Artist-to-fan features
- Fan rewards for streaming
- Direct artist funding
- Music discovery
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Lissen is the app to stream and get rewards. We are an interactive platform combining music streaming and artist-to-fan features. As a fan, you get rewarded to stream and YOUR money only goes to YOUR artists.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RA Guide at none against Lissen's 2. RA Guide also leads on ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#153 vs unranked). Lissen's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 52%). On price, update cadence, monetization model 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. Lissen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per month. RA Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.
RA Guide ships an update weekly, Lissen every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RA Guide | Lissen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #153 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Resident Advisor | Lissen Ltd |
Customer experience
RA Guide
Lissen
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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Lissen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RA Guide
No in-app purchases
Lissen
- Lissen Premium1 Month trial$4.951 Month
- Lissen Premium1 Month trial$49.491 Year
