Comparison

Sideboard vs Gravity

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

Head to head
About

Sideboard

This app displays your upcoming and in-progress meetings, showing the time until your next event or the remaining time in your current meeting. It offers widgets for your home screen and can run in standby mode for continuous visibility of your schedule.

Highlights
  • View upcoming and in-progress meetings
  • Time until next meeting display
  • Current meeting duration tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Standby mode for continuous display
Features
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Sideboard is designed to summarise your upcoming meetings and enhance your productivity See Your Day: Sideboard will quickly show your upcoming or in progress meetings, and show how long until the next meeting (or how long the current meeting has left to run) This lets you see at a glance how your day is looking Put it on your dock: The iOS and iPad app is designed to be run "on the side" - hence the name! Our widgets are even better than the app!: Sideboard has a range of widgets that can be added to your home screen, showing your upcoming meetings, or the current meeting Running in standby mode is perfect for showing you your next meeting!

About

Gravity

This app offers a streamlined note-taking experience by eliminating folders and tags, focusing on a single, continuous stream of thoughts. Capture ideas instantly and use simple gestures to manage your notes, prioritizing what matters most.

Highlights
  • Instant note capture
  • Single stream organization
  • Swipe gestures for actions
  • Attention-based prioritization
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Lightweight prefixes for filtering
  • Fast search functionality
Features
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Gravity keeps all your notes in one stream, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the stream. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It matches parts of words and ignores accents. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the stream. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no accounts and no analytics, and it doesn't collect any data. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from three text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Sideboard3 screens
Gravity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sideboard at Free against Gravity's $9.99. Sideboard also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Gravity's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Sideboard is free to download; Gravity costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gravity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sideboard ships an update every 2 months, Gravity fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Sideboard versus Gravity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSideboardGravity
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—91.7% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOHN ANDREW POLLARDTristan Manchester

Customer experience

Sideboard

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

Gravity

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

Sideboard

No in-app purchases

None

Gravity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sideboard free?
Sideboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gravity free?
Gravity costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sideboard or Gravity?
Gravity is rated higher. Sideboard averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gravity averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Sideboard or Gravity have ads?
Neither Sideboard nor Gravity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sideboard or Gravity?
Sideboard ships an update every 2 months, and Gravity fortnightly. Most recently, Sideboard was updated on October 3, 2026 and Gravity on October 2, 2026.

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