Comparison

BuddyWave vs sideeye

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

Head to head
About

BuddyWave

Record and share audio diary entries with friends and family. Preserve daily events and emotions as voice memos, create private sharing spaces, and react to friends' recordings. Ideal for those who find writing tedious or want to share moments easily.

Highlights
  • Record audio diary entries
  • Create private sharing spaces (WaveRooms)
  • Post short audio clips (Waves)
  • React to friends' recordings
  • Schedule audio posts
  • Receive notifications for activity
Features
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【Who Will Love This App?】 ・People who want to preserve their daily events and emotions. ・Those looking to transform their routine daily life into memorable experiences. ・People who tried keeping a diary but gave up because writing was too tedious. ・People who want to share little everyday events through voice with family or friends who live far away. ・Busy couples who want to exchange short, heartfelt messages. ・People who want to share fun and interesting daily happenings with friends. ・Parents who want to share their children's cute behaviors and milestones with grandparents. ・Anyone who wants to express gratitude easily in the midst of a busy life. ・Language learners practicing new words and phrases and wanting to share their pronunciation. ・People who want to share quick thoughts or ideas with friends and colleagues. ・People who want to keep their ideas as voice memos. ・People who want to send a message to their future selves. 【What You Can Do With This App】 ■ Recording Wave Diary You can preserve daily events and emotions as audio data. The audio data is stored only on your device, ensuring privacy protection. Easily see the days you’ve journaled in a calendar format and the reminder feature also helps prevent forgetting to make diary entries. ■ Create a Private Space (WaveRoom) You can create a new WaveRoom or join a friend's WaveRoom to have a private space. Of course, you can also make a room just for yourself. ■ Post Audio Clip (Wave) Use your smartphone's microphone to record audio clips of about 10 seconds. Capture cherished moments and keep them as audible memories! ■ React to Waves Show that you've received a friend's Wave by pressing the heart icon. ■ Scheduled Posts You can schedule the time to post your audio (Wave). It will fulfill your wish to send a birthday message right as the date changes, without having to fight sleep. ■ Notification Feature Receive notifications when someone joins a WaveRoom or makes a post, allowing you to play the voice without missing it.

About

sideeye

This social networking app lets your friends build your profile by posting moments about you. Share real moments privately within your circles, with posts that gradually reveal over time. Capture and share instantly to create a collaborative story of your friendships.

Highlights
  • Friend-curated profiles
  • Private walls for circles
  • Posts reveal over time
  • Capture real moments fast
  • Chat, react, and share privately
Features
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Your friends build your profile. Not you. sideeye flips social — your profile is created by the people who know you best. You post on your friends’ profiles, they post on yours. No posing. No curating. Just real moments shared between real friends. Why you’ll love sideeye • Friend-curated profiles - Your wall is made of moments your friends post about you — and you add to theirs. • Private walls for your circles - Create invite-only spaces for friends, classes, teams, or clubs. • Posts reveal over time - Every post starts blurred and reveals piece by piece. Peek early before it’s gone. • Capture real moments fast - Shoot or upload and instantly post to a friend’s profile or group. • Chat, react, and share inside your circles - Keep everything in one place — private, real, and close-knit. How it works - Create your profile - Invite your people - Let your friends build the story of you - Post moments to their profiles too - Start sharing differently Download sideeye and let your circle tell your story.

Screenshots

BuddyWave4 screens
sideeye4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: sideeye at none against BuddyWave's shown. sideeye also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). BuddyWave's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BuddyWave against 5.0 for sideeye. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BuddyWave ships an update weekly, sideeye every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BuddyWave versus sideeye: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddyWavesideeye
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developertsubasa ichibaAltmart IS

Customer experience

BuddyWave

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

sideeye

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BuddyWave

No in-app purchases

None

sideeye

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BuddyWave free?
BuddyWave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is sideeye free?
sideeye is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BuddyWave or sideeye?
BuddyWave and sideeye are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BuddyWave or sideeye have ads?
BuddyWave shows ads; sideeye does not.
Which is updated more often, BuddyWave or sideeye?
BuddyWave ships an update weekly, and sideeye every 2 weeks. Most recently, BuddyWave was updated on October 8, 2026 and sideeye on October 6, 2026.

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