OnHand vs MARCUS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OnHand
This app connects users with local causes and environmental initiatives to make a positive impact. It offers curated missions, climate-positive pledges, and tracks your contributions, allowing you to earn points and grow a virtual forest.
- Find local causes and missions
- Take climate-positive pledges
- Track volunteer hours and CO2e reduction
- Earn Hero Points and climb leaderboards
- Grow a virtual forest with completed missions
- Connect with your team for impact
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OnHand makes it easy for people to do more good in the world. We’re the social and environmental impact app for employees everywhere. We’re helping you learn and take action on the issues that really matter by connecting those in need with those who want to give. FIND LOCAL CAUSES CURATED FOR YOU Take part in local and remote missions around the topics of youth mentoring, food poverty, homelessness, elderly help, and loads more. Choose how you make a difference today! TAKE CLIMATE-POSITIVE PLEDGES Wash your clothes at 30°C, eat vegan for a week, go plastic-free… we’re giving you the tools to fight the climate emergency using our ever-growing list of sustainable lifestyle pledges. SHOUT ABOUT YOUR IMPACT Earn Hero Points for every good deed you do, climb a leaderboard, and show off to your friends! The OnHand app has automated volunteer and CO2e reduction tracking, with impact pages to shout about the good you’re doing. GROW YOUR OWN FOREST Every good deed you do helps to grow a forest. Not only do you get to make a real difference in your local community, we’ll plant a tree for every 10 missions you complete. It’s simple to get started: Download the app Verify your details Join your team to start completing missions! Make the impact you want with mini missions that suit you. Make a global impact, fight the climate crisis, and meet your responsible business goals. It really is that easy. Do good and feel great today.
MARCUS
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MARCUS is a daily Stoic practice app built on a simple premise: philosophy is something you do, not something you read. Most philosophy apps give you a quote and call it a day. MARCUS gives you a complete daily practice rooted in 2,000 years of Stoic tradition — morning intentions, structured lessons, guided exercises, and evening reflections that turn ancient wisdom into a living habit. FOUR PILLARS OF DAILY PRACTICE Today — Your Daily Anchor Each morning begins with a carefully chosen thought from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, or Seneca. Not a decorative quote — a lens for examining your day. Set your morning intention in under two minutes and return each evening for a virtue check-in. Learn — Depth, Not Soundbites 61 structured lessons covering seven pillars of Stoic philosophy: Control, Acceptance, Virtue, Mortality, Calmness, Obstacles, and Time. Each lesson pairs primary source excerpts with modern commentary and a practical exercise. Includes a dedicated "Stoicism at Work" journey applying Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca to difficult colleagues, hard emails, and the pressure to let a job become your whole identity. Reflect — Your Private Journal Guided journaling with rotating Stoic prompts. Every entry is stored locally on your device and never leaves it. Review your reflections over time and watch your practice deepen. Practice — Active Exercises 23 text-guided Stoic exercises grounded in classical practices: negative visualisation, the view from above, evening self-examination, and more — plus a set of 60-90 second "Quick Resets" for the moment you actually need them, not just morning and evening. DESIGNED FOR PRIVACY Your journal entries, reflections, and practice history never leave your device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics, no tracking. MARCUS is free. No paywall, no trial, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: OnHand at every 4 days against MARCUS's fortnightly. OnHand also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OnHand ships an update every 4 days, MARCUS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OnHand | MARCUS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BEONHAND LIMITED | Owen McLoughlin |
Bugs and requests
OnHand
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login crashes and app shutdown
- Impact feature causes app crash
- Registration completion failures
- App crashes during startup
- Functionality issues in version 9.5.0
Requested features
8 requests- Improved search bar for missions
- Better filtering options for actions
- Enhanced mission descriptions with more detail
- Custom team league table functionality
- More consistent point system
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- Improved navigation for locating missions
- More mission availability in regional areas
- Optional photo uploads for sensitive missions
MARCUS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
OnHand
No in-app purchases
MARCUS
No in-app purchases







