Comparison

Enter Space vs BastionChat

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

Head to head
About

Enter Space

Access and manage your cloud storage files directly from your device's file manager. Offers features like media playback, code editing, file locking, and versioning for seamless cloud integration.

Highlights
  • Universal app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
  • Built-in Media Gallery with slideshow and 360 video playback
  • Code Editor for quick text file modifications
  • File Locking and File Versioning
  • Time Portal for file restoration
  • Scheduled sync tasks and Photos Library backups
  • Integration with Apple's File Provider Service
Features
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Enter Space connects your cloud storage accounts to your Apple devices and folds them into Files / Finder so they feel native — and ships a v5 toolkit to actually USE that storage well: a duplicate finder with image, video & audio similarity, a storage analyzer, and a code editor with a real git client. One app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV & Apple Watch. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Enter Space needs an in-app purchase to use: a Monthly or Yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Every feature described below is included with any of them; nothing is sold separately. New subscribers start with a free trial, and Family Sharing is supported. THE V5 TOOLKIT • Doppel Duplicate Finder — find exact or visually & audibly similar images, videos, and audio on any remote. Bulk Keep / Keep None / Invert, rule-based winners, persisted hash cache so re-scans are instant. • Space Inspector — ncdu-style storage analyzer: drill into folders by cumulative size, multi-select bulk delete, QuickLook anywhere in the tree. • Code Editor + Git — multi-tab syntax-highlighting editor with a full git side-panel (stage, commit, branch, merge, pull, push, stash, revert), SSH Key Manager, token store, Git Mirror local clones, and HTML / Markdown live preview. CORE FEATURES • Built-in Media Gallery for photos, audio and video as a slideshow. 360° video supported by swipe-to-pan. • File Locking and File Versioning on any supported connection. • Time Portal — point-in-time restoration of any file or folder. • Quick public-link sharing for providers that support it. • Read / write across all configured remotes. • Rename many files at once — select two or more, choose Rename All, and build the new names from a pattern ({name}, a {n} counter, {ext}) or find & replace, with a live old → new preview that flags collisions before anything is touched. • Encrypt / decrypt on the fly. Create Aliases for fast access to any folder on any cloud. • Widgets for iPhone, iPad & Mac — Photo Slideshow, Storage Dashboard, Bandwidth and Sync Status — plus a used/free capacity bar on every storage location. NATIVE FILES INTEGRATION • Spotlight Index, Time Machine Backup, Download / Evict via the File Provider Service. • Mac: a file system extension can mount your remotes as a real volume that Finder and Terminal see — switch a remote on or off and the volume updates in place. • In-app remote file browsing, local bookmarks, cross-remote file ops. • Accepts files from other apps via the share sheet and Open With. AUTOMATION • Schedule sync tasks (copy, move, sync, bisync, photos backup) with rich triggers — including App Intents. • Run Now from the context menu — last-in-wins, no waiting on the queue. SUPPORTED CLOUDS Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, pCloud, Box, Mega, Microsoft Azure Files, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Backblaze B2, Amazon S3-compatible storage, Google Cloud Storage, and many more rclone backends. PROTOCOLS FTP, SSH / SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, SMB / Samba. Built on the open-source rclone project. You can drop in an rclone.conf to configure any backend rclone supports. You choose which remotes appear in Files / Finder. SECURITY A local web server with a rolling password runs on the device for local-only communication. External traffic uses each provider's standard secure protocol. SSH keys live in iCloud Keychain and ride between your devices. PRIVACY Enter Space facilitates connections to YOUR cloud accounts. We don't host storage, we collect zero usage data, and there's no telemetry. All file transfers go directly from your device to your cloud, through rclone running locally on your device. Tested heavily but you accept responsibility for any data loss. Use at your own risk. Privacy Policy: https://wemiller.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BastionChat

Features
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Your data belongs to you. Your AI should too. Bastion Chat puts a powerful, private AI assistant in your pocket — no subscriptions, no usage limits, no servers watching over your shoulder. Everything runs locally on your device, so your conversations stay completely confidential. Even offline. ——— KEY FEATURES ——— YOUR PRIVATE AI, YOUR RULES Experience top-tier reasoning and "thinking" models without compromising an ounce of privacy. All processing happens on-device. Your conversations are never uploaded, never analyzed, never sold. Just you and your AI. CURATED MODEL CATALOG Browse and download a hand-picked selection of the best open-source models — from compact 1B models that run on any iPhone, to powerful 27B models on iPad and Mac. Thinking models, vision models, tool-use specialists — all pre-configured and ready to run. VISION & MULTIMODAL AI Ask questions about images, analyze screenshots, describe photos, or extract text from documents. Bastion Chat supports multimodal models that see and understand the world alongside you. AGENTIC AI — YOUR AI THAT ACTS Go beyond chat. Enable Agent Mode to let Bastion Chat reason through complex tasks, plan multi-step solutions, and execute actions autonomously using built-in tools. Your private AI that doesn't just talk — it does. FULL RAG & DOCUMENT INDEXATION A complete knowledge pipeline in the palm of your hand. Import PDFs, web pages, Wikipedia articles, or plain text. Bastion Chat indexes your personal knowledge base using full retrieval-augmented generation so answers are always grounded in your content. AI-POWERED SUMMARIES IN SECONDS Overwhelmed by lengthy articles or dense reports? Bastion Chat distills complex content into clear, actionable summaries. Grasp the key points instantly and save hours of reading. SMART WEB SEARCH, ON DEMAND Need real-time information? Enable the optional web search tool to ground your answers in live results — without sacrificing your privacy or your workflow. BRING YOUR OWN MODEL Import any GGUF model directly from Hugging Face or your local files. Capabilities like advanced reasoning, tool use, and vision are detected and configured automatically on import. SCALES WITH YOUR DEVICE On iPhone, run fast and efficient models for everyday tasks. On iPad and Mac, unleash frontier-class models like Qwen 27B for deep research, long-form writing, and complex reasoning — all still 100% local. ONE PURCHASE. YOURS FOREVER. No usage caps. No API costs. Pay once and run unlimited queries for as long as you own your device.

Screenshots

Enter Space4 screens
BastionChat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Enter Space at Free against BastionChat's $9.99. Enter Space also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months) and device support (5 vs 2). BastionChat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Enter Space is free to download; BastionChat costs $9.99 up front. Enter Space sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. BastionChat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Enter Space ships an update every 2 days, BastionChat every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Enter Space versus BastionChat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnter SpaceBastionChat
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlaine MillerFrederic Ayala Heinrich

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Enter Space

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$59.99
None

BastionChat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Enter Space free?
Enter Space is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BastionChat free?
BastionChat costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Enter Space or BastionChat have ads?
Neither Enter Space nor BastionChat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Enter Space or BastionChat?
Enter Space ships an update every 2 days, and BastionChat every 6 months. Most recently, Enter Space was updated on October 4, 2026 and BastionChat on October 5, 2026.

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