Comparison

GetGo Operator vs What Stays

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

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About

GetGo Operator

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GetGo Operator app is a one-stop app for gig workers who sign up with GetGo to receive job information, perform maintenance works for GetGo's fleet of vehicles and submit evidence of work completed. The app allows accepting of open jobs-for-rewards, tracking of jobs in progress, connecting to in-car Bluetooth devices and submitting inspection photos of vehicles.

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What Stays

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Not every thought needs a permanent home. What Stays is a journal built around one question: what should happen to this? Write an entry, or speak one. Then choose its ending. RELEASE: let it go. The key that opens the entry is destroyed, and nothing from it will be shown again. RETURN: set it aside, sealed, until a day you choose. It stays sealed even from you, and then it comes back. REMEMBER: keep it deliberately. Only what you choose to keep becomes part of your journal. The point of writing something down is the writing, not always the keeping. This is a journal that agrees. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE β€’ No account, no sign-up, no server. β€’ Your entries are encrypted on this iPhone, each with its own key (AES-256-GCM). Devector cannot read them: no copy exists. β€’ Nothing leaves this phone unless you send it. It works with no network: iOS moves the sealed files, not the app. β€’ No analytics, no tracking, no ads, and no analytics code in the app at all. β€’ Notifications never show what you wrote, and the app hides its contents from the app switcher. β€’ It can lock itself: Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode before it opens. β€’ A copy of the app’s files is not a copy of your journal. The key that opens it stays in this iPhone’s Keychain, marked to this device only. SPEAKING, AND WHAT BECOMES OF IT You can speak an entry instead of writing one. The recording is encrypted like everything else, and it is what is kept: if anything else fails, the audio is saved. Some iPhones turn speech into text on the device. Where yours can, the app adds a written version, live or from a saved recording, using the phone’s own recogniser with the network path refused. Where it cannot, recordings stay as audio and the app says so. Either way it is free. REFLECTION, IF YOU ASK Part of Plus, experimental, off by default. On a recent iPhone that can run Apple’s on-device model, it can offer a line worth keeping, a suggested title, or one question about an entry. Only when you ask, never written into your journal on its own. Your words go to Apple’s own model: outside this app, on the same phone, nothing over the network and nothing kept. Every answer is checked against your words, and one that falls short is not shown. Where an iPhone cannot run it, none of this appears. YOUR DEVICES, WITHOUT A SERVICE Sync puts the same journal on your iPhone and your iPad, and on Apple devices it is one switch: it uses the app's own folder in your iCloud Drive. What lands there is sealed with a passphrase this iPhone makes and keeps for you, which we never see and cannot reset, so nobody holding the folder can read a word. You see it once, when you add a second device. If your other phone is not an Apple one, pick a shared folder: iCloud cannot reach it. WHAT IT COSTS The journal itself (writing, speaking, transcription, the three endings, encrypted export and restore, Delete everything, and reading what you already wrote) is free forever. A paywall here will never take away, hide, or degrade anything that exists. What Stays Plus is one purchase, made once, with no subscription. Plus is sync between your devices, and reflection. Every new install starts with fourteen days of the full product, so you decide with everything in your hands. The price is shown in your own currency first. When the fourteen days end, nothing is taken away. Plus only declines to start new premium work. BEFORE YOU DEPEND ON IT Unless you turn sync on, your journal lives on this iPhone and nowhere else. That is the point, and it has a consequence: losing this phone loses your entries. Sync keeps a sealed copy in your own folder and on your other device. Settings also makes an encrypted backup: one file, locked with a passphrase only you know. The app cannot make it on its own, because your passphrase is stored nowhere. Either way a copy leaves this phone. Encrypted, but it does travel. From Devector. Pay once. It stays.

Screenshots

GetGo Operator4 screens
What Stays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GetGo Operator at none against What Stays's 1. What Stays's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. What Stays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GetGo Operator asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GetGo Operator ships an update every 2 months, What Stays weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
GetGo Operator versus What Stays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGetGo OperatorWhat Stays
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.215.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size49 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGetGo Technologies Pte LtdDEVECTOR CONSULTING LIMITED

In-app purchases

None

GetGo Operator

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

What Stays

One-time1
  • What Stays Plus$14.99

Questions

Is GetGo Operator free?
GetGo Operator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What Stays free?
What Stays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GetGo Operator or What Stays have ads?
Neither GetGo Operator nor What Stays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GetGo Operator or What Stays?
GetGo Operator ships an update every 2 months, and What Stays weekly. Most recently, GetGo Operator was updated on October 16, 2026 and What Stays on October 29, 2026.

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