Aether vs LookBack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
LookBack
This app helps you remember people you've met at events by tracking your most recent contacts and associating them with specific occasions. Never forget a valuable connection again.
- Track recent contacts
- Associate contacts with events
- Event-based contact memory
- Contact history log
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Have you ever lost track of who you met at a conference? We have the perfect tool to help you remember who you met at each event. This app allows people to see who they most recently added to contact, also helps associates contacts with events they were met at. TOS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://privacy.logicalmagic.tech/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LookBack at Free against Aether's $1.99. LookBack also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Aether's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
LookBack is free to download; Aether costs $1.99 up front. LookBack sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Aether asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Aether against 5.0 for LookBack. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Aether ships an update every 2 months, LookBack every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aether | LookBack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben McCarthy | Logical Magic Inc |
Customer experience
Aether
LookBack
In-app purchases
Aether
No in-app purchases
LookBack
- LookBack+ Weekly$0.997 Days
- LookBack+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- LookBack+ Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- LookBack+ Lifetime$49.99
