ELYS vs grug
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ELYS
Preserve your memories, messages, and important documents for loved ones to receive at future dates. Schedule heartfelt content to be delivered on special occasions or whenever you wish, ensuring your legacy of love and wisdom endures.
- Schedule message delivery
- Attach photos and videos
- Secure content storage
- Intuitive interface
- Legacy planning
- Future content delivery
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ELYS – Your Legacy Management Platform How we leave people behind matters. With ELYS, you can preserve your words, memories, and love—long after you’re gone. Schedule messages, photos, videos, and documents to be delivered on dates you choose. Your loved ones receive reminders of you on birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, or whenever you want. Features: • Create heartfelt messages, letters, or notes that are released at the future dates you set. • Attach videos and messages to share stories, recipes, wisdom whatever you want to pass on. • Secure storage ensures your content stays private until it’s time to deliver. • Intuitive, simple interface so it’s easy to plan ahead and leave nothing unsaid. Whether you’re planning ahead for peace of mind, wishing to leave a legacy of love, or ensuring important memories aren’t lost, ELYS gives you the power to speak, share, and connect beyond time. Note : This app is for registered users only. No purchases or subscriptions are available through the app.
grug
Receive a daily dose of simple, profound wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges. This app offers straightforward truths and accompanying artwork to inspire personal growth and contentment. It focuses on mindfulness and taking small steps each day.
- Daily wisdom sharing
- Accompanying artwork
- Home screen widget
- Customizable themes
- Light and dark modes
- No login or tracking
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grug know: big scary just many small rock wearing fur coat. every sunrise grug share one wisdom. help you break today rock into small piece. no fancy word. no complicated. just simple truth that work. **what grug do:** - share daily wisdom when sun rise - draw grug dream on wisdom - share with other grug - widget show wisdom on cave - grug work in light and dark cave or give grug shiny color grug not guru. grug just know: small step every day make mountain move. perfect never come. better start with broken stick today than wait for perfect stick tomorrow. wisdom come from real life. fear work love pain growth. grug speak simple but truth hit deep. like "fear just smoke. real but not solid.” and "wanting make poor. grateful make rich." each day different wisdom. truth waiting. grug help see: you already enough. just need pick up one small rock today. app simple like grug brain. open. read wisdom. maybe draw feeling. that all. no login. no cloud. no follow. just you and today truth. remember. tomorrow not here. only today real. grug help make today count. Terms of Service: https://ocho.so/terms Privacy Policy: https://ocho.so/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: grug at 3.3K against ELYS's 1. grug also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). ELYS's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ELYS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: grug has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ELYS ships an update monthly, grug weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ELYS | grug |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (3.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 96.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evolutyz | Ocho |
Customer experience
ELYS
grug
In-app purchases
ELYS
No in-app purchases
grug
No in-app purchases
