Ocean vs Contio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ocean
This app intelligently sorts your Gmail inbox into actionable categories like 'Action', 'Review', and 'Cleanup'. It offers features to quickly reply, schedule, archive, and bulk delete emails, helping you manage your inbox more efficiently.
- Inbox classification (Action, Review, Cleanup)
- Quick email actions (reply, schedule, dock)
- Bulk email cleanup
- Google Calendar integration for invites
- Global search across emails and invites
- VIP contact highlighting
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Your Gmail inbox wasn't built for the way you work. Ocean was. Ocean brings Beacon Intelligence to your Gmail. On-demand intelligence that classifies your inbox into what actually matters, so you spend less time sorting and more time doing. Designed exclusively for Gmail and Google Workspace. ⎯ BEACON INTELLIGENCE Beacon analyses your inbox and classifies what matters into 3 swim lanes: Action, Review, and Cleanup. Each lane contains a list of emails that you need to act on. - For the Action lane, you can quickly reply, dock an email on a specific date or send a meeting invitation. - For the Review lane, you can swipe to archive or discard the email. - For the Cleanup lane, you can leverage our powerful bulk Cleanup functionality to clear hundreds of emails in seconds. ⎯ DROPS: INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT THE COMMITMENT Every new account gets 30 free Drops. Enough for about 12 to 14 days of active use. Drops never expire and are only consumed when you use them. Skip a day, skip a week. You don't pay for days you're not working. Once your free Drops are used, Ocean's core features remain free forever. Need more? Drop packs are available for quick top-ups. Or go Ocean Blue for 50 Drops every day, refreshing at midnight. No subscription required. No rush hitting cancel. ⎯ CORE FEATURES: ALWAYS FREE Email: Compose, reply, forward, and manage your Gmail. Full email client, always free. Clean Up: Filter and clear your inbox in seconds. - First Timers, Persistent Pingers, Subscriptions, and more. - Archive entire categories with one tap. Dock: Dock emails you want to action later. - Swipe into time-based buckets: Today, This Weekend, This Week, This Month, Whenever. - Never lose what needs your attention. Invites: Direct Google Calendar integration. - Share your availability, block last-minute bookings, and automatically add confirmed meetings to your calendar. Global Search: Search across emails and invites from one place. VIP Contacts: Mark important senders as VIP. Never miss their emails. ⎯ PRIVACY-FIRST Your emails are never stored on our servers. When you invoke Beacon Intelligence, we ask your consent to use our intelligence provider to analyze your email conversations. Only when you ask, never in the background. Not sneaky. ⎯ BEAUTIFULLY NATIVE Dark mode, clean design, built for iPhone. Not a web wrapper. ⎯ Built in Canada by a small team who actually use this thing every day. Privacy Policy: https://ocean.app/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://ocean.app/terms-of-use
Contio
This AI-powered tool transforms spoken conversations into actionable outputs like proposals and plans. It automatically captures key decisions and action items from meetings, providing summaries and enabling team-wide intelligence.
- AI-powered conversation capture
- Automatic note-taking and summaries
- Action item identification
- Cross-team intelligence sharing
- Offline capturing capabilities
- Integration with Google/Microsoft calendars
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Contio is AI that turns what gets said into what gets done. Designed for people whose meetings are only half the work, it turns every conversation into the first draft of whatever comes next — the proposal, the plan, the follow-up. Now it goes wherever you do. Capture the conversations that matter most — the in-person client meeting, the site visit, the hallway discussion, the coffee chat. You stay present; Contio catches what matters. Open the app, tap to start capturing, and the moment it ends you get killer notes — every decision captured, crystal-clear action items, and the dots connected. CAPTURE ANYWHERE • Start capturing in person or on the go, even offline — no laptop required • Perfect for client meetings, site visits, 1:1s, conferences, and coffee chats • Tap to start, tap to stop PERFECT NOTES, AUTOMATICALLY • Stay focused on the conversation while Contio handles the notes • Every decision and action item captured the moment your conversation ends • Crystal-clear summaries that connect the dots across what was said CHAT WITH YOUR AI CHIEF OF STAFF • Ask anything about any meeting and get an answer in seconds • Contio draws on every meeting, decision, and action item across your workspace • Connect Google or Microsoft and it can answer from your email, calendar, and documents too SUPERHUMAN MEMORY ACROSS YOUR TEAM • Every meeting makes the next one smarter — that's compounding workspace intelligence • Every decision, discussion, and commitment captured across your team, so nothing gets lost • Your teammate's client call last week makes today's proposal sharper — and it all flows right into the work CONNECTS TO YOUR CALENDAR • Works with Google and Microsoft • See your day at a glance and start capturing any meeting in seconds IN SYNC, WHEREVER YOU WORK • Everything you capture on your phone syncs with Contio on your desktop • One workspace, on every device WORKS OFFLINE • Keep capturing with no cell signal, no Wi-Fi — even in airplane mode • Perfect for planes, field visits, and dead-zone conference rooms • Everything syncs the moment you're back online PRIVATE BY DESIGN • 100% of AI processing happens in our secure private cloud • We don't store any audio recordings • Your data is never used to train AI models Turn every meeting into momentum with Contio. FOR EXISTING CONTIO CUSTOMERS • Contio for iPhone and iPad is for members of an existing Contio workspace • Sign in with the email address your workspace already uses • New accounts and workspaces can't be created in the app; access is provisioned by your organization • If you don't have an account yet, contact your workspace owner Need help? Visit our Help Center: https://helpcenter.contio.ai/en Terms of Use: https://www.contio.ai/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.contio.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Contio at none against Ocean's 8. Ocean's advantage is iOS requirement (18 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Contio asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ocean against 5.0 for Contio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Ocean ships an update every 8 days, Contio every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ocean | Contio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BigWave Labs Inc | Contio |
Customer experience
Ocean
Contio
In-app purchases
Ocean
- Ocean Blue 14-day TrialFree
- Ocean Drops Small$2.00
- Ocean Drops Medium$3.00
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- Ocean Drops Large$5.00
- Ocean Drops XLarge$9.00
- Ocean Blue (Early Adopter)$67.00
- Ocean Blue Access$79.00
- Ocean Blue$99.00
Contio
No in-app purchases









