Comparison

Above Us vs Aperture

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

Head to head
About

Above Us

This app tracks Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings in real-time by analyzing anonymized search data from major US cities. It provides a unique and private method for monitoring UAP activity, distinct from traditional sighting reports.

Highlights
  • Real-time UAP sighting tracking
  • Anonymized search data analysis
  • Coverage in 10,000+ US cities
  • Privacy-focused data collection
  • Map visualization of sightings
Features
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This is made possible by serving Google Ads to searchers—whether they click the ad or not, their data is plotted to the app, while being washed of all personal identifiers. This method of tracking UAP/UFO sightings is unmatched in terms of speed, volume, and privacy (this app doesn’t rely on sighting reports, which are often slow, and discrepant with actual sightings). Searches are currently tracked across the 10,000 most-populated US cities. Each sighting marker on the map represents aggregate data for that specific date / date-range.

About

Aperture

Features
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Most practice journals can only ever agree with you. Aperture is built so it can tell you nothing happened. It hides the target, seals what you recorded before you can revise it, and scores your impressions against what was actually in the photo. You don't have to wonder whether you're improving. You can look. A SESSION, STAGE BY STAGE - Cool-down: a short breathing pacer to quiet the analytic mind - Ideogram: a fast reflexive mark, then tag the basic gestalt - Sensory: colors, textures, temperatures, sounds, forms - Sketch: the spatial layout, on a full canvas - Assemble: your final impressions, before you commit - Reveal: only now does the target appear, and the scoring begin Until you commit, the target is never shown, hinted at, or inferable. You work from a meaningless reference number. YOUR GUT, KEPT SEPARATE FROM YOUR GUESSES Raw sensory impressions stay visually separate from flagged guesses (AOL: the mind's premature conclusions). Flagging a guess never costs you points. That separation is the habit the whole method is built on. SCORING YOU CANNOT FUDGE Your score is how much of what you sensed matches what was really there, judged against a fixed vocabulary set in advance rather than your memory of what you meant. It rewards accurate sensory data, not lucky label-guessing, and shows you which impressions matched and which missed. Log enough sessions and it will tell you plainly whether you are beating chance. A REFEREE, NOT AN ORACLE (SUPPORTED IPHONES) An optional AI judge reads the session you already sealed and scores it against the target. It can lower a generous score but never inflate one, and it never tells you what you will perceive next time. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE No account, no analytics, no server of ours. Your sessions live on your device. Optional Pro sync goes only through your own private iCloud, and the judge runs on-device, so nothing you write is sent anywhere for analysis. FREE TO TRY, PROPERLY Your first 3 sessions are complete and full-featured: the whole protocol, the full target pool, real scoring. Aperture Pro then unlocks: - Unlimited sessions - The full 300+ target library - Analytics that show your results against chance - Unlimited named viewers with separate histories - Relay mode: two people, one hidden target, revealed together - Session export (JSON) Aperture Pro is $6.99/month, or $39.99/year with 1 month free, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Aperture builds on Controlled Remote Viewing, the six-stage protocol developed at SRI in the 1970s and the subject of declassified government research. It makes no claims about psychic ability and predicts nothing. It is a practice journal and an attention-training tool. Test yourself, collect your own data, draw your own conclusions. Privacy policy: https://quietoptics.com/aperture/privacy.html Terms of use: https://quietoptics.com/aperture/terms.html

Screenshots

Above Us4 screens
Aperture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Above Us at none against Aperture's 3. Above Us also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Aperture's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Aperture sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Above Us asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Above Us ships an update every 3 weeks, Aperture every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Above Us versus Aperture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbove UsAperture
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPat BerlinquetteQuiet Optics LLC

In-app purchases

None

Above Us

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Aperture

Subscriptions2
  • Aperture Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Aperture Pro — Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Aperture Pro — Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Above Us free?
Above Us is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aperture free?
Aperture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Above Us or Aperture have ads?
Neither Above Us nor Aperture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Above Us or Aperture?
Above Us ships an update every 3 weeks, and Aperture every 4 days. Most recently, Above Us was updated on October 30, 2026 and Aperture on November 5, 2026.

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