Comparison

Afterpage vs Obius

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

Head to head
About

Afterpage

Features
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Afterpage is a home for the documents you don't want to lose. Receipts, deeds, warranties, insurance policies, medical records, tax paperwork, the stuff that used to live in a shoebox or a drawer now lives in one place, organized the way you think about it, and easy to find the next time you need it. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Give a document a tag, a category, or a contact, and it's filed. Name them and color them, and Afterpage keeps track of what you use most so your Home tag or your Taxes 2025 category shows up right when you need it. There's no folder structure to fight with. A tag can connect to other tags, categories, or documents on its own terms, so your Yellowstone Road Trip tag can pull in the Vehicles category without forcing everything into a rigid hierarchy. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search isn't stuck in one tab. Open your household documents, a warranty folder, or a single contact, and search right there. Afterpage reads the text off every page you scan or import, so a search for "Alitalia" finds the flight confirmation even if you never typed that word into a tag. Results are ranked by relevance, so the document you want shows up first. GET DOCUMENTS IN, THREE WAYS Scan a document with the built-in camera, import a PDF or image from Files, or share it in from Mail, Safari, or Photos without leaving the app. Afterpage stitches multi-page scans into one PDF and reads the text automatically, whether it's a scanned page or an emailed invoice that already has text in it. NO ACCOUNTS. NO CLOUD BUT YOURS. There's no sign-up, no login screen, nothing to remember a password for. Afterpage syncs your documents through your own iCloud account, the same way Photos and Files do. We don't run a server that stores your documents, because we don't need one. FREE TO START You can keep up to 20 documents for free, with tags, categories, contacts, search, and iCloud sync all included. When you need more room, Afterpage Pro lets you keep as many documents as you like. Pro also lets you pick a custom icon for a tag or category, add a background image behind it so your Disney World 2026 folder can look like your trip, and use smart features like title cleanup. Pro is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. If your subscription ends, you can still open, search, share, and export every document you've added. Afterpage isn't a scanner and it isn't an editor. It's where your documents go after that, organized, searchable, and yours. -- Privacy Policy: https://afterpage.app/privacy Terms of Service (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Obius

This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Visual workspace for notes and ideas
  • Reusable content blocks (Loops)
  • Color-coded sections by intent
  • AI-powered content generation and search
  • Version history and snapshots
  • Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
Features
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub

Screenshots

Afterpage4 screens
Obius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Obius at 17.0 against Afterpage's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Afterpage sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Afterpage ships an update every 5 days, Obius weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Afterpage versus Obius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfterpageObius
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael DouglasDAED LLC

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Afterpage

Subscriptions4
  • Afterpage Plus$2.991 Month
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Afterpage Plus$19.991 Year
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  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$69.99
4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Afterpage free?
Afterpage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Afterpage or Obius have ads?
Neither Afterpage nor Obius shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Afterpage or Obius?
Afterpage ships an update every 5 days, and Obius weekly. Most recently, Afterpage was updated on October 30, 2026 and Obius on October 31, 2026.

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