Comparison

Ocean vs Glance

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

Head to head
About

Ocean

This app intelligently sorts your Gmail inbox into actionable, reviewable, and cleanup categories. It offers smart replies, bulk email deletion, and scheduling tools to streamline your communication and save time.

Highlights
  • AI-powered email classification (Action, Review, Cleanup)
  • Smart replies tailored to recipient
  • Bulk email cleanup and unsubscribe
  • Email docking for future action
  • Meeting scheduling with availability blocking
  • VIP contact filtering
Features
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Your Gmail inbox wasn't built for the way you work. Ocean was. Ocean brings Beacon Intelligence to Gmail and Google Workspace on your iPhone. When you ask, Beacon classifies every email by what it needs from you, so you spend less time sorting and more time doing. ⎯ BEACON INTELLIGENCE Every email, handled. Beacon classifies every email into three lanes: Action, Review, and Cleanup. Within each lane, emails are grouped by kind (Needs Reply, Bills, Scheduling, Travel, and more) with the best next step ready. - Action: reply, dock to the due date Beacon found in the email, or send a meeting invite. - Review: swipe to archive or discard. - Cleanup: clear hundreds of emails in seconds. Never leave anyone hanging. Beacon spots emails waiting on your reply, so you can answer now or dock them for later. ⎯ REPLY IN YOUR OWN VOICE Smart Replies are written the way you write to that person. Or switch to casual, shorter, or formal. Add a quick guideline ("1pm Thursday works") and Ocean drafts the rest. Replies are never sent automatically. ⎯ CLEANUP Newsletters piling up? Clear the lot. Pick a category (Subscriptions, First Timers, Persistent Pingers, Forgotten, and more) and clear the whole list in one go. Archive or trash, unsubscribe, and add senders to WaveGuard, which routes their future emails out of your inbox and deletes them after 30 days. Nothing comes back. Your first cleanup each day uses 1 Credit. ⎯ CREDITS: INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT THE COMMITMENT Every new account gets 25 free Credits, enough for about a week of daily use. Credits never expire and are only used when you ask for intelligence. Skip a day, skip a week; you don't pay for days you're not working. Need more? Credit packs are available for quick top-ups. Or go Ocean Blue, our yearly membership: 25 Credits every day, refreshed at midnight. No subscription, no auto-renewal, nothing to remember to cancel. Prefer to wait? Ocean's core features stay free forever. ⎯ CORE FEATURES: ALWAYS FREE Email: compose, reply, forward, and manage your Gmail. A full email client, always free. Dock: Not now? Dock it. Swipe into Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, This Week, Next Week, This Month, Next Month, or Whenever, or set an exact due date for bills and deadlines. Docked emails come back right when you need them. Invites: Meetings without the back-and-forth. Propose a few times in one email; they pick one, and it lands in Google Calendar with a Google Meet link. Slots you've already offered stay off the table, and a lead time blocks last-minute bookings. Global Search: search across emails and invites from one place. VIP Contacts: mark important senders as VIP and never miss their emails. ⎯ PRIVACY FIRST Your emails are never stored on our servers. Beacon only runs when you ask: we request your consent before sending email conversations to our AI provider for analysis. Nothing happens in the background. ⎯ BEAUTIFULLY NATIVE, AND IN SYNC Dark mode, clean design, built for iPhone. Not a web wrapper. Beacon results and docked emails sync with Ocean on Mac through iCloud. ⎯ Built in Canada by a small team who actually use this thing every day. Privacy Policy: https://ocean.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://ocean.app/terms-of-use

About

Glance

Transform your iPhone into a real-time monitoring dashboard. Send data from any system via webhooks and view it instantly on your home screen with beautiful native widgets. Ideal for developers and DevOps teams.

Highlights
  • Native iOS Widgets
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Push Notifications
  • Multiple Feed Types
  • Secure & Private
  • Flexible Data Format
Features
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Glance: Build, Follow & Share Widgets Your apps. Your home screen. Glance turns the apps and services you care about into beautiful iPhone home screen widgets. Chat with Glance AI to build in seconds, subscribe to creator widgets, or design your own layouts. No laptop required. WHAT IS GLANCE? Glance connects your data to your home screen. Link Google Calendar, GitHub, YouTube, or on-device sources like Weather, Calendar, Reminders, and steps. Built-in automations keep widgets fresh. With Discover, browse public widgets, subscribe with one tap, and pin them to your home screen. Publish your own and share a link like glance.cool/your-name. HOW IT WORKS 1. Build with Glance AI Describe what you want in Chat. Glance AI designs the layout, connects your data, shows a live preview, and sets up updates. Reply to refine before anything goes live. 2. Connect & Automate Link accounts in Integrations: Google, GitHub, YouTube, and native iPhone sources. Automations refresh on a schedule in the cloud or directly on your device. 3. Discover & Subscribe Find widgets from creators in Discover. Subscribe, add to your home screen, and stay updated automatically. 4. Design Your Own Use Layouts to edit custom designs with a JSON editor and live preview. Start from examples like GitHub Status or Activity & Calendar. KEY FEATURES • Glance AI: build widgets conversationally with inline previews • Integrations: Google Calendar, Tasks, Sheets, GitHub, YouTube, and on-device Weather, Calendar, Reminders & Motion • Automations: scheduled cloud refreshes or on-device updates • Discover: subscribe to creator widgets or publish your own • Custom Layouts: design appearance with a live editor • Ready-Made Examples: one-tap templates for live widgets • Webhook Feeds: push data via HTTP from scripts, Zapier, Make, or n8n • Push Notifications: optional alerts when data changes PERFECT FOR • Daily stats: calendar, weather, fitness, and more • Creators sharing live milestones via a link • Developers monitoring GitHub, deployments, and server health • Automation fans connecting scripts and tools INTEGRATIONS Available now: Google (Calendar, Tasks, Sheets), GitHub, YouTube, and on-device Weather, Apple Calendar, Reminders, and Motion & Fitness. Coming soon: Meta (Instagram, Facebook Pages, Meta Ads), Strava, Spotify, and Gmail. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS Free Up to 3 feeds · 24 events/day · 7-day retention · 5 layouts · 3 automations · 5 AI messages/day · 1 custom feed Pro Up to 8 feeds · 96 events/day · 14-day retention · 15 layouts · 10 automations · 25 AI messages/day · 2 custom feeds · Custom widget URL Power Up to 25 feeds · 288 events/day · 45-day retention · Unlimited layouts · Unlimited automations · Unlimited AI messages · Unlimited custom feeds · Custom widget URL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off in Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glance.cool/privacy Connect with us: Support: support@glance.cool Website: https://glance.cool

Screenshots

Ocean4 screens
Glance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ocean at every 8 days against Glance's every 2 weeks. Glance's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Glance sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ocean against 5.0 for Glance. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glance has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ocean ships an update every 8 days, Glance every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ocean versus Glance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOceanGlance
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB51 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBigWave Labs IncTal Kravarusic

Customer experience

Ocean

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

Glance

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Ocean

One-time8
  • Ocean Drops Small$1.99
  • Ocean Drops Small$2.00
  • Ocean Drops Medium$3.00
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  • Ocean Drops Medium$3.49
  • Ocean Drops Large$5.00
  • Ocean Drops Large$5.99
  • Ocean Drops XLarge$9.00
  • Ocean Blue Access$57.99
2 purchases

Glance

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Plan$6.001 Month
  • Power Plan$11.001 Month

Questions

Is Ocean free?
Ocean is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glance free?
Glance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ocean or Glance?
Ocean and Glance are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Ocean or Glance have ads?
Neither Ocean nor Glance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ocean or Glance?
Ocean ships an update every 8 days, and Glance every 2 weeks. Most recently, Ocean was updated on October 30, 2026 and Glance on November 5, 2026.

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