Extra vs Hello Haven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Extra
This app transforms your email inbox into a proactive personal assistant. It highlights important daily information, prevents missed deadlines and events, and allows you to take action directly from your messages. It organizes your life's communications by grouping less important items.
- Daily brief of important items
- Never miss deadlines or events
- Actionable insights from messages
- Organizes communications by grouping
- Proactive personal inbox
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Meet Extra - your life’s inbox. Your life already runs through your inbox: plans, travel, packages, bills, events, and conversations. Extra turns that overwhelming stream into a personal, proactive inbox for your life. It shows you what matters today and helps you take the next step. • Know what's important today. Extra gives you a calm daily brief with the things worth your attention. • Never miss what matters. Catch deadlines, travel changes, plans, packages, and important moments before they slip. • Turn details into action. Draft replies, schedule events, and handle the next step without digging through messages. • Keep life organized, quietly. Extra groups the noise so the important stuff is easy to find.
Hello Haven
This AI assistant acts as your second brain, organizing your life and taking action on your behalf. It helps manage schedules, to-do lists, and information through various communication methods, offering personalized suggestions and reminders. Your privacy is paramount, with data remaining yours and never sold or used for model training.
- AI-powered organization
- Personalized information management
- Multi-channel communication
- Context-aware suggestions
- Privacy-focused data handling
- Schedule and to-do management
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Meet Haven, the AI that actually knows you. Your life is full and fast. A packed schedule, a running to-do list, a hundred tabs open at any moment, and a brain that was never meant to hold all of it. Haven helps you carry it. Haven is your second brain. It holds everything important to you, organizes it, distills it, and takes action on your behalf, so you spend less time managing information and more time living. Reach Haven however works for you. Call and talk it through. Text. Email. Message in the app. One conversation, everywhere. Haven knows your life. Send a photo of your fridge and get a dinner idea that fits what you have and how you eat. Get your day organized around what matters, at the right time for each thing. Haven remembers your family's schedules and the details you shouldn't have to. Haven looks out for you. It checks in, surfaces what matters before you ask, and quietly handles the noise. Your life stays yours. Privacy is the foundation. Your data belongs to you, full stop. We never sell it, and it is never used to train the models behind Haven. Built for busy parents, solo founders, empty nesters, and anyone who wants a calmer, more present life. Download Hello Haven.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Extra at 4.8 against Hello Haven's 4.4. Extra also leads on ratings volume (408 vs 31) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Hello Haven's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Extra holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Extra has 408 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Extra's written reviews are positive against 76% of Hello Haven's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Extra | Hello Haven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (408 ratings) — better | 4.4 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 76.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 408 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BuildForever, Inc. | Hello Haven, Inc. |
Customer experience
Extra
Hello Haven
In-app purchases
Extra
No in-app purchases
Hello Haven
No in-app purchases









