Comparison

Side vs outernet

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

Head to head
About

Side

This app turns your daily life into an adventure with personalized quests. It encourages exploration, connection, and personal development by sparking curiosity about your surroundings.

Highlights
  • Personalized quests
  • Daily routine transformation
  • Exploration of surroundings
  • Connection and personal growth
  • Spark curiosity
Features
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SideQuest transforms your daily routine into a journey of discovery, connection, and personal growth. Get personalized quests that spark curiosity and help you explore the world around you.

About

outernet

This app encourages users to explore the real world by saving and organizing places and events. It helps you plan outings, from casual coffee shop visits to elaborate date nights or family vacations, turning online interests into offline adventures.

Highlights
  • Save and organize places/events
  • Research and summarize event details
  • Create collections of locations
  • Plan date nights and family days
  • Build vacation itineraries
  • Collect stamps for completed adventures
Features
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Outernet is creating a new type of internet use, in which our phones serve as a map of IRL exploration that gets us outside, instead of keeping us stuck scrolling indoors. Outernet helps you save and organize the places/events you want to check out, so it’s easy to actually go! You can share any place/event to Outernet (via tiktok, instagram reels, website URLs, screenshots, or pictures), and we’ll do the research, summarize what you need to know, and organize your plans so it’s easy to actually go. And as you complete your saved adventures, you collect stamps! When you’re on the Outernet, you can: - Actually remember to check out that cool pop-up, arts festival, woodworking class, etc. - Create a collection of trinket box locations or top coffee shops in your city, then check each off as you explore it - Plan date nights that’ll blow your partner’s socks clean off - Organize family days that both the kiddos and adults enjoy - Easily create itineraries for your vacations (both in the books and aspirational) - And most of all, spend more time outside doing things, instead of just being online watching them! This is only the beginning of Outernet reshaping how we use the internet, and we’d love to have you join us on our adventure. We’ll cya outside! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Side4 screens
outernet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: outernet at 96% against Side's 50%. outernet also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (260 vs 11). Side's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. outernet sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Side asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

outernet holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: outernet has 260 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Side's written reviews are positive against 96% of outernet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Side ships an update weekly, outernet every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Side versus outernet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSideouternet
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (11 ratings)4.9 (260 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews96.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11260 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB131 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperBenjamin SnookOuternet Explorer Inc.

Customer experience

Side

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative16.7%

outernet

All ratings248 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral0.4%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.9%
Negative2.8%

In-app purchases

None

Side

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

outernet

Subscriptions4
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Month$4.991 Month
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Month$6.991 Month
  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Year$29.991 Year
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  • Outernet Explorer's Club | Year$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Side free?
Side is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is outernet free?
outernet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Side or outernet?
outernet is rated higher. Side averages 3.8 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while outernet averages 4.9 from 260 ratings.
Do Side or outernet have ads?
Neither Side nor outernet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Side or outernet?
Side ships an update weekly, and outernet every 10 days. Most recently, Side was updated on October 24, 2026 and outernet on October 28, 2026.

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