Max Moves vs Aether
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Max Moves
Quickly identify super-effective attacks, resistances, and immunities for Pokémon battles. Input the opponent's types to instantly see optimal move strategies. Supports all 18 Pokémon types with clear damage multipliers and color-coded results. Works offline and adapts to various display sizes.
- Super-effective attack identification
- Resistance and immunity tracking
- Covers all 18 Pokémon types
- Clear damage multipliers
- Color-coded results
- Offline functionality
- Adaptive layout for different displays
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Find the right move type in seconds. Choose the opposing Pokémon’s primary and secondary types to see super-effective attacks, resistances, and immunities. Max Moves covers all 18 standard Pokémon types, with clear damage multipliers and color-coded results. Tap a type button to change your matchup, or expand the normal-damage list for a complete view. A simple layout adapts to iPhone and iPhone Duo, with side-by-side results on the expanded display. Supports light and dark appearances, larger text, and VoiceOver. Works offline. Uses standard type matchups. Special moves, abilities, items, and other battle effects can change damage.
Aether
This app helps players quickly determine type effectiveness in battles by setting attacking and defending types. It offers a clean, simple interface with support for light and dark modes, and dynamic type sizing. The app provides a one-time purchase for full access without any tracking or subscriptions.
- Type effectiveness calculator
- Set attacking and defending types
- Clean and simple interface
- Light and dark mode support
- Dynamic Type support
- One-time purchase
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Aether is a Type Calculator that helps you quickly check type effectiveness. Aether is clean, simple, and easy to use. There are just three dials, used to set the attacking type, and one or two defending types. Aether has no tracking or analytics, no upsells or subscriptions. You just pay once to get the app. Couldn’t be more simple. Aether supports light and dark mode, and has app icons to match. It also supports Dynamic Type. --- Aether is not affiliated with Nintendo, Game Freak or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc, The Pokémon Company, and their licensors. All rights reserved. Aether is intended only as a reference to those materials under Fair Use policies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Max Moves at Free against Aether's $1.99. Max Moves also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 5). Aether's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 42 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On rating, 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
Max Moves is free to download; Aether costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Max Moves against 5.0 for Aether. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Max Moves's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aether's.
Max Moves ships an update every 42 months, Aether every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Max Moves | Aether |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forrest McDaniel | Ben McCarthy |
Customer experience
Max Moves
Aether
In-app purchases
Max Moves
No in-app purchases
Aether
No in-app purchases
