Comparison

maskingtape vs Side Space

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

Head to head
About

maskingtape

Create unique photo collages with a variety of tape designs and colors. Add characters, adjust tape width, and enjoy a realistic tearing texture. Save your creations or share them directly to social media.

Highlights
  • 60+ color choices
  • 100+ tape designs
  • Realistic hand-tearing texture
  • Draw characters on tape
  • Save to album or share
  • Design history and preferences
Features
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Let's make a collage of your pictures with "maskingtape" app. [Point to appeal] - choices are possible from about 60 different colors and 100 tape designs - It has enables to reproduce the texture and sense of hand-tearing. - Characters can be drawn on the tape. - Collages products can be stored in album or posted directly to twitter/instagram/etc. - It can provide the history of designs used and register preference. [how to use] 1)Choose photos from "Album" button. 2)Choose color and type of tape by "Tape" Button. Width of the tape can be change by flicking. 3)Tape can be attached by moving figure while tapped. 4)Tape can be removed by a double-tap. 5)"Save" can store the modified image into Camera Roll.

About

Side Space

Create isolated digital environments on your device to manage multiple accounts for web services. Each environment can store its own web sessions, notes, photos, and videos separately, with optional privacy features and passcode protection.

Highlights
  • Multiple isolated environments
  • Separate web sessions and logins
  • Private, hidden spaces
  • On-device data storage
  • Proxy support per space
  • Notes and photo storage
Features
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SideSpace keeps several separate environments on one iPhone or iPad. Each Space has its own web sessions, its own notes, its own photos, and its own lock. TWO ACCOUNTS, ONE PHONE Sign in to the same service twice — one account in your Work Space, another in Personal — and the two never see each other. Each Space keeps its own cookies and its own sign-ins, so switching Space switches everything at once. No signing out, no re-entering passwords. WHAT LIVES IN A SPACE • Web apps you pin, each opening straight to the service you signed into in that Space • A browser for everything else, with its own tabs and history • Notes • Photos and videos, kept inside the Space and never added to your Photos library • A camera that saves directly into the Space it was opened from PRIVATE SPACES A Space can be marked Private. Private Spaces are not listed at all until you unlock them — their names stay hidden, not just their contents, so handing someone your phone does not show them what you keep separate. Unlock with Face ID, or with a passcode that is separate from your device's own code. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no account to create and no server to sync to. Everything a Space holds is stored on your device. Export a backup to a file whenever you want one. STARTS WITH SOMETHING USEFUL Pick what a Space is for — work, selling, studying, creating — and it arrives with the apps that usually go with it. You see the full list and approve it before anything is created. A PROXY PER SPACE Spaces already keep separate logins, but they share one connection. Point a Space at your own proxy and its web traffic leaves by its own route, while your other Spaces are untouched. You bring the proxy — SideSpace runs no servers and sells no bandwidth. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS SideSpace runs services in isolated web sessions. It does not clone or modify any app, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any service you add. Web sign-ins are not included in backups, and web push notifications are not available in a web session — if you need alerts from a service, keep its own app installed alongside. SideSpace Premium unlocks unlimited Spaces, private Spaces, and ad blocking. • Yearly — $19.99 per year • Monthly — $5.99 per month • Weekly — $2.99 per week • Lifetime — $39.99, one-time purchase (not a subscription) Try every Premium feature free for 24 hours, once: no subscription, nothing charged. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://sangcaolabs.com/apps/sidespace/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

maskingtape4 screens
Side Space4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: maskingtape at none against Side Space's 4. maskingtape also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Side Space's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Side Space sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. maskingtape asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for maskingtape against 4.0 for Side Space. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

maskingtape ships an update every 3 weeks, Side Space every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
maskingtape versus Side Space: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermaskingtapeSide Space
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB18 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLightcraft Inc.Sang Cao

Customer experience

maskingtape

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Side Space

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

In-app purchases

None

maskingtape

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Side Space

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is maskingtape free?
maskingtape is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Side Space free?
Side Space is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, maskingtape or Side Space?
maskingtape and Side Space are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do maskingtape or Side Space have ads?
Neither maskingtape nor Side Space shows ads.
Which is updated more often, maskingtape or Side Space?
maskingtape ships an update every 3 weeks, and Side Space every 4 days. Most recently, maskingtape was updated on October 24, 2026 and Side Space on October 26, 2026.

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