Comparison

Split Screen Multitasking View vs Einfall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Split Screen Multitasking View

This app allows users to view and interact with two applications or web pages simultaneously on their iPhone or iPad. It provides a split-screen experience for enhanced productivity and multitasking, offering features like a social plugin, file manager, and customizable browser.

Highlights
  • Dual split screens for simultaneous app viewing
  • Social media plugin for easy account switching
  • File manager for saving downloads and screenshots
  • Customizable split view browser
  • Left-handed user interface support
  • Page capture for full web page screenshots
Features
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Stop juggling tabs and apps on iPhone. Do 2+ things at once on your iPhone and let private on-device AI take a look at two or more panes and get you answers from across things you're doing in the app. From the original split screen browser, this parallel view app is now the multitasking you have always missed on your iPhone. Split Screen began in 2015 as the first of its kind, original split-screen browser, it went on to become the #1 utility/productivity app in 50+ countries, it also became the Top 10 in around 100 countries, including the USA, China and Japan. Version 3.0 is the leap the technology finally allows: two live panes, 40+ built-in tools, four home themes and a private, on device AI brain getting better over time.. This is the complete split screen multitasking experience for iPhone that I've always dreamed of building for you and me. TWO PAGES, ONE SCREEN • Two independent panes, read, watch, shop and research in both at once • Drag to resize, tap to swap, long-press for quick actions • Each pane keeps its own tabs, history and scroll position ON-DEVICE AI THAT READS BOTH PAGES • RECONCILE: One tap and the AI reads BOTH open panes, then reconciles them into a single clear card. Two product pages become one verdict. A claim and its source become one check. • SUMMARY: distills the page you are reading into a crisp, private summary. Pinch in, done. • COMPANION: an on-device chat about the page in front of you. Reconcile, Summary and Companion use Apple's on-device AI and require an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone. Nothing you read is ever sent to a server. On every other iPhone, both panes, the 40+ tools, everything else works in full. Prefer to do the reading yourself? Optional Tandem sync-scroll: switch it on in Settings and both panes scroll together as you read. EVERY AI, SIDE BY SIDE Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok side by side, each in its own pane, each with its own signed-in session, and compare their answers on one screen. The AI Row puts 20 AI services a tap away, the AI Cube swipes between them, the AI Compare bento sends one question to two at once. Ask them all the same thing. See who is right or gives you the best answers. 40+ TOOLS, BUILT IN Notes, Calculator, Translate, QR scanner, Read-Aloud, Maps, Weather, Stocks and more, 40+ tools and mini apps that open right in a pane, so nothing pulls you out of your flow. Plus every browser essential: smart address bar, private browsing, bookmarks, reading list, full-page capture, save as PDF and left-handed layout support, rare on iOS. Three Themes: • Atelier: clean, calm and editorial • AI Stage: scroll tabs like cards for easy overview of everything you want to do simultaneously • Matrix: code-rain for night owls PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no tracking • The app collects no data, there is nothing to leak • The AI runs on your iPhone, so your reading stays on your iPhone • Optional family-safety suite: parent PIN, web filtering, approved-sites list and time limits, parent-configured, off by default MADE TO ADAPT TO HOW YOU MULTITASK • Students: read the paper with the textbook right under it. • Shoppers: compare two products before you buy. • Traders: watch the market while you read the news. • Parents: cartoons on top, your feed below. • Developers: run an AI coder beside the docs. • Fact checkers: put the claim next to its source. • Whatever two things you do, do them at once, and let Reconcile connect them. ONE PRICE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED Split Screen 3.0 is a one-time purchase, every feature, no subscription, no ads, no account. The next chapter moves new downloads to a different pricing model; buy 3.0 now before prices go up. Since 2015 this app has been built by a one man army. I'm back at full speed, write to me when something is off or you wish it did more: I read everything and build what you need quickly. ► Download Split Screen now, open two pages, ask one question, get one answer. ◄

About

Einfall

Quickly capture fleeting ideas and thoughts from any device. Organize them in a simple, searchable stream and take action when you're ready. Your thoughts are private and sync securely via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Instant capture from any device
  • Simple, searchable plain text stream
  • Actionable thoughts (edit, export, integrate)
  • Optional local AI agent
  • Private, no account required
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Face ID/Touch ID lock
Features
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Einfall is a place for fugitive thoughts. The thought arrives while you are busy with something else — in a queue, on a walk, halfway through a meeting. Einfall is the fastest place to put it, and a place you can trust to keep it. Get it out of your head in a second. Deal with it later. Or never. One-time purchase. No subscription. Capture wherever you are Whichever device is nearest your hand, and never more than one gesture: • The Mac menu bar, summoned by a keyboard shortcut from any app • Home-screen and lock-screen widgets • Control Centre, on iPhone, iPad and Mac • The share sheet, for a link or a passage of text • The Services menu on Mac, for selected text in any app • Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and the Action Button • Your voice, transcribed on your device as you speak None of them make you look at your stream first. Capture is free and unlimited, forever. One calm stream Everything you capture lands in a single flat list, newest first. No folders, no notebooks, no unread counts, no reminders that you are behind. Plain text you can read, edit and search. Tags if you want them, nothing to tend if you do not. A long stream is not a backlog — it is a notebook you trust. Do something with a thought, when you are ready Open the stream, pick a thought and fire an action: • Send it out — to Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Files, the share sheet or a Shortcut • Change it in place — tidy the phrasing with Apple Intelligence on your device, turn prose into a list, change the case, stamp the time it was caught, copy it • Fold it into another thought, so related notes gather in one place A thought that gets routed leaves the stream. A thought you no longer need is deleted, without ceremony. Both are good endings. Your own AI agent, if you use one Einfall carries an optional local server on Mac — off until you turn it on — so your own AI agent can read and work on your stream on your behalf. Whatever you can do in the app, your agent can do too. Nothing it writes changes a thought until you accept it. Private because there is nowhere else to be No account. No sign-in. No infrastructure of ours between you and your thoughts. Your stream syncs across your own devices through iCloud, and nowhere else. Dictation and Apple Intelligence run on your device. Einfall's App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, because none is. You can lock the stream behind Face ID or Touch ID, export the whole thing as one plain-text file whenever you like, and keep automatic backups in a folder you choose. Free to capture. Pay once to unlock everything you can do with your thoughts. Capturing is free and unlimited, forever. Reading and searching your stream is always free. So are the in-place actions — copy, listify, change case and timestamps. The routing layer — sending a thought out to another app, folding one thought into another, and Apple Intelligence — gives you fifteen free fires. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks it for good, on every device you own, and for your household through Family Sharing. No subscription. Nothing to renew. Nothing expires. Your own thoughts are never held behind a lapsing fee. Einfall is the German word for an idea that falls into your mind unprompted. This is the place to put those thoughts before they are gone. Mac, iPhone and iPad. Requires macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.

Screenshots

Split Screen Multitasking View4 screens
Einfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Einfall at Free against Split Screen Multitasking View's $8.99. Einfall also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Split Screen Multitasking View's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Einfall is free to download; Split Screen Multitasking View costs $8.99 up front. Einfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Split Screen Multitasking View asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Split Screen Multitasking View ships an update every 2 months, Einfall every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Split Screen Multitasking View versus Einfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplit Screen Multitasking ViewEinfall
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developervishnu raoJEAN PIERRE MARAIS

Customer experience

Split Screen Multitasking View

Written reviews194 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative57.2%

Einfall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Split Screen Multitasking View

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Login and account issues
  • Compatibility problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for more apps
  • Landscape mode
  • Customization options
  • Improved stability and performance

Einfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Split Screen Multitasking View

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Einfall

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$29.99

Questions

Is Split Screen Multitasking View free?
Split Screen Multitasking View costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Einfall free?
Einfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Split Screen Multitasking View or Einfall have ads?
Neither Split Screen Multitasking View nor Einfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Split Screen Multitasking View or Einfall?
Split Screen Multitasking View ships an update every 2 months, and Einfall every 5 days. Most recently, Split Screen Multitasking View was updated on October 7, 2026 and Einfall on September 25, 2026.

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