Microsoft Loop vs Qassandra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microsoft Loop
This app facilitates collaborative thinking, planning, and creation across devices. It brings together teams, content, and tasks, allowing users to capture ideas, manage projects, and communicate in real-time. Seamlessly integrate with existing tools for a unified workflow.
- Co-creation experience
- Content and task management
- Idea capture and task lists
- Project workspace
- Real-time commenting and reactions
- Customizable notifications
- Cross-Microsoft 365 component editing
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Think, plan and create together with Loop on the go. Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content and tasks across your tools and devices. Designed for the way you work, Loop can help you think, plan, and create together. • Capture ideas, create task lists, and insert photos to your Loop pages to express your thoughts. • Bring all your project content into a Loop workspace to help your team focus on what matters. • Comment and react in the app to quickly collaborate on the go. • Get only the notifications you care about and jump right back into what needs the most attention. • Edit and share Loop components across Microsoft 365 to help your team be on the same page in one place. To get started, download Loop, and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the End User License Terms for Microsoft Loop. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions. Privacy terms: https://aka.ms/privacy Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms, see “License Agreement” under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.
Qassandra
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Qassandra is a private productivity companion for bounded exploration. Habits, algorithms, and personalization get better at refining options already nearby; other acceptable possibilities can remain untested. Define a low-stakes search space, approve safe and reversible options, sample one independently, notice your reaction, and learn from what actually happens. THE ESCAPE LOOP • Define an ordinary pattern that feels stuck • Bound the choice with options you explicitly approve • Interrupt the routine with Quantum selection or Shake selection • Notice whether you first feel curiosity, energy, relief, resistance, unease, or neutrality • Accept the proposal, edit it into a better experiment, or reject it • Follow up in Progress and turn the outcome into useful evidence Randomness proposes. You decide. Experience teaches. QUANTUM OR SHAKE—WITH A RECEIPT Quantum selection requests 256 random bits generated from measured quantum vacuum fluctuations by the Australian National University service, then mixes them locally with secure iPhone randomness. If the service is unavailable, Qassandra visibly labels the secure-device fallback. Shake selection mixes temporary iPhone movement with secure device randomness. Raw motion is not retained. Every selection shows the source actually used and a short receipt. Unpredictability widens the search—it is not an oracle. A familiar option may be a good local result without being the best possibility available. Neither method identifies or guarantees a global optimum, predicts an outcome, or has scientific superiority as advice. Qassandra selects only from safe possibilities you approved, and the result has no authority over your decision. A PROGRESS RECORD BUILT FROM WHAT HAPPENED Accepted experiments appear in Progress with a follow-up. Keep your initial reaction, chosen action, and later outcome separate so you can learn what genuinely helped. Hector’s optional accountability workspace adds ambitious goals, if–then plans, next actions, check-ins, and evidence. You can also log a personal metric. After at least twelve distinct daily observations, Qassandra can calculate a compact on-device progress estimate with a visible range. The estimate is an extrapolation, not fate, a promise, or a prediction of a life event. THREE OPTIONAL FICTIONAL GUIDES • Hector turns uncertainty into a concrete move and follows up on commitments. • Nana protects capacity through brief, general-wellbeing practices and sustainable pacing. • Uziel widens the frame with meditation, visualization, and one grounded action. The guides are fictional narrative voices, not live people, clinicians, or supernatural authorities. On supported devices, Apple’s on-device Foundation Model can help compose contextual conversation. A bundled local engine remains available when it cannot. PRIVATE CONTEXT, CHOSEN BY YOU Choose individual Calendar events, paste a note, or deliberately share selected text from Mail, Messages, Notes, Gmail, Outlook, and compatible apps. Qassandra never silently reads another app. You can disable or delete context and saved memories at any time. Your questions, conversations, selected context, goals, experiments, observations, and local estimates are not sent to an external AI inference server. Quantum selection sends no question or personal context to ANU. No account is required. No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. Available in English and Latin American Spanish. Qassandra is for low-stakes reflection and personal experimentation. It must not be used to randomize medical, legal, financial, crisis, consent-related, safety-critical, or irreversible decisions. It is not medical, legal, financial, mental-health, or emergency advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Qassandra at none against Microsoft Loop's 4. Microsoft Loop's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Microsoft Loop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Qassandra asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Microsoft Loop | Qassandra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 466 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | VICTOR HERNAN AGUIAR LOZANO |
Bugs and requests
Microsoft Loop
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on certain workspaces
- Inability to save new content
- Formatting issues with code blocks
- Keyboard issues and cursor jumping
- Inconsistent theme and UI behavior
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to duplicate pages
- Improved handwriting and whiteboard support
- Export/copy to Word or PDF
- Offline functionality
- Better access management and guest collaboration
Qassandra
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microsoft Loop
- Microsoft 365 Personal$9.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Personal$99.991 Year
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- Microsoft 365 Family$129.991 Year
Qassandra
No in-app purchases
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