Ottasee vs Gistr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ottasee
Organize all your digital media, including movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, videos, and articles, in a single, visually appealing platform. Create custom collections for projects or personal enjoyment, consolidating diverse content types.
- Manage movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, videos, and articles
- Centralized content library
- Create custom collections
- Organize content by medium
- Curate for projects or personal use
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Ottasee is a platform where you can manage all your movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, videos, and articles all in one convenient colorful place. You can create collections allocating from any of your library's mediums making it easy to curate all your content for any project or personal use.
Gistr
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Your YouTube tabs, saved articles, and podcast episodes — all in one place, with notes that stay connected to where they came from. Watch a video. Read an article. Listen to a podcast. Then try to remember it a week later. Gistr is built for that gap. —— Bring in a YouTube video, a podcast, a PDF, or an article. Your notes open right next to it. Ask questions about what you just watched or read. Pull out the parts worth keeping. Come back a month later — it's all still there. The source, your notes, and the conversation you had about it. Still connected. Still yours. —— WHAT YOU CAN BRING IN ▸ YouTube videos and playlists ▸ Podcasts from Spotify and Apple Podcasts ▸ PDFs, Word docs, presentations, EPUB, MOBI, text files ▸ Any article or blog on the web —— WHAT YOU CAN DO ▸ Take notes in a split view — your source on one side, your notes on the other. No switching tabs. ▸ Ask questions and get answers pulled from the specific source you added — not a general guess. ▸ Add more than one source to the same workspace and see how they connect. ▸ Jump-start any session — Gistr suggests questions the moment you add a source, so you always know where to start. ▸ One-click tools for summaries, key takeaways, chapter breakdowns, and quizzes — no prompting needed. —— WHO IT'S FOR Students who want more than a summary the night before an exam. People who learn from YouTube and want it to actually stay with them. Writers who read across many sources and need to connect the ideas. Anyone who saves things they genuinely mean to come back to. —— FREE TO START No card needed. Your first source is ready in under a minute. gistr.so Privacy Policy: https://gistr.so/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://gistr.so/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ottasee at none against Gistr's 6. Gistr's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Gistr sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $8.00 per month. Ottasee asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ottasee ships an update every 9 months, Gistr every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ottasee | Gistr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ottasee, Inc. | GISTR TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED |
In-app purchases
Ottasee
No in-app purchases
Gistr
- Curious Monthly$8.001 Month
- Explorer Monthly$15.001 Month
- Thinker Monthly$80.001 Month
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- Curious Annual$80.001 Year
- Explorer Annual$150.001 Year
- Thinker Annual$800.001 Year
