Even Realities vs trenches journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Even Realities
This app enhances smart glasses with a 3D floating display, offering features like AI-powered conversations, teleprompting, health monitoring, and real-time translation. It helps users stay present while accessing information, managing tasks, and receiving notifications.
- 3D floating display
- AI-powered conversations
- Teleprompting
- Health monitoring
- Real-time translation
- Navigation overlay
- Customizable dashboard
- Notifications
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Welcome to Even Realities. The everyday display smart glasses. Even G2 is designed to quietly transform the way humans experience information, conversations, and everyday life. Discover extraordinary capabilities that unleash a quiet power. With a 3D floating display that appears naturally in your field of view, Even G2 helps you stay present and aware while accessing the information you need with Conversate, Teleprompt, Health, Even AI, Translate, Navigate, Dashboard, Notification, and QuickList. Conversate - Contextual AI explains terminology, shows public bios, provides on-the-spot answers, suggests follow-up questions, generates subtitles and captures meeting summaries. Teleprompt - In time with the speed you deliver your talk, your words scroll in front of you. Or you can scroll with Even R1. Health - Monitor your vital signs whenever you need, helping you stay balanced and focused with Even R1. Even AI - Say "Hey Even" and it listens, thinks, and shows you the answer - from quick questions to controlling features. Translate - See real-time subtitles in your own language when you have a conversation. Navigate - Clear, precise directions overlay your real world street view. Dashboard - Put your day at a glance with smart, customizable widgets for everything from health to headlines. Notification - Keeps you effortlessly in the loop. Every update you select to be notified about pops up, right before your eyes. QuickList - Just speak and a to-do appears with due dates. See your pinned list on Dashboard to stay organized and focused. If you have the display smart glasses and ring, this is the companion app that you'll need to do things such as manage your Even G2 and Even R1, import and customize your information, and more. The Even Realities app is required to support your glasses and ring experience. Discover your new quietly extraordinary power.
trenches journal
This app combines journaling and habit tracking with a unique AI-powered council of historical and modern figures. Get personalized advice and weekly reflections based on your entries. Build the future you want with guidance from legendary minds.
- AI council of historical figures for advice
- Personalized weekly reflections
- Daily journaling with voice-to-text
- Habit tracking without gamification
- Letters to your future self
- Curated library of impactful quotes
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trenches is a daily practice for people in the thick of it — building, fighting, becoming. it's your journal and your habit tracker. but here's what makes it different: a council of the greatest minds who ever lived reads everything you keep — and you can actually talk to them. — THE COUNCIL — seat your advisors and ask them anything, about your real life. one question, and every legend you've seated answers — in their own voice. get a kick from david goggins. perspective from marcus aurelius. trajectory from matthew mcconaughey. the right question from socrates. clarity from naval ravikant. cold strategy from napoleon. fire from conor mcgregor. 26 voices in all — fighters, founders, stoics, athletes, philosophers. — THE WEEKLY READING — your council takes in everything you keep — your journal, your drills, all of it — and reflects your real patterns back at you. not horoscope platitudes. what you actually did this week, read by the people you'd actually listen to. — THE PAGE — a blank page every morning. type it out, or hit speak and think out loud while trenches transcribes. no prompts to perform for. just you, getting it down. — THE DRILLS — track the habits that actually matter and keep an honest record of the year — a clean grid of every day you showed up. no badges. no guilt. just the truth. — LETTERS TO YOUR FUTURE SELF — write to who you're becoming. it seals on send. when the day comes, you open it. proof of how far you've moved. — LINES WORTH CARRYING — a curated library of the lines that hit hardest. bookmark the ones that land and carry them with you. everything you keep lives on your device. no analytics scripts. no third-party trackers. no ad networks. when you ask the council, your words go out for that answer and aren't kept on our servers after. the future you want isn't coming. it's being built. you're the one building it — now you don't have to build it alone. trenches pro unlocks the full council, unlimited readings, and everything above. monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: trenches journal at 100% against Even Realities's 41%. trenches journal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Even Realities's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (179 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
trenches journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Even Realities has 179 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Even Realities's written reviews are positive against 100% of trenches journal's.
Even Realities ships an update every 2 weeks, trenches journal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Even Realities | trenches journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (179 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 490 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Even Realities Ltd. | Jackson Orndorff |
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