LifeBrain vs Sill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LifeBrain
Capture thoughts, moments, and ideas in a private, organized space. Add reminders to ensure nothing is forgotten, keeping your mind clear and focused. This utility app offers a simple way to remember what matters without pressure or clutter.
- Create memories for thoughts and ideas
- Add reminders to memories
- Keep context together
- Capture things instantly
- Add images to memories (Premium)
- Private image gallery (Premium)
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LifeBrain helps you remember what matters, without feeling overwhelmed. Your brain isn’t meant to hold everything. Thoughts, moments, reminders, ideas; they pile up fast. LifeBrain gives them a calm, private place to live so your mind can rest. What you can do with LifeBrain: • Create memories for thoughts, moments, and ideas • Add reminders to memories, so nothing gets lost • Keep context together instead of scattered notes • Capture things instantly, without structure or pressure Designed for mental clarity LifeBrain isn’t a task manager or productivity dashboard. There are no streaks, no noise, and no guilt. Just a simple place to remember. Upgrade to LifeBrain Premium (optional) to: • Add images to your memories • Keep a private image gallery of meaningful moments LifeBrain is free to use, with optional premium features. Privacy comes first: • No ads • No selling your data • Your memories are yours • Designed with privacy and respect in mind Use LifeBrain for: • Remembering meaningful moments • Capturing thoughts when they come at the wrong time • Attaching reminders to context, not just dates • Light journaling without pressure • Reducing mental overload LifeBrain helps you remember, so you don’t have to. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sill
Stream your Mac's desktop or individual windows to your iPhone or iPad. Control your computer remotely using touch, keyboard, or Apple Pencil with encrypted connections. Offers flexible streaming quality and connection options.
- Stream Mac windows or desktop to iPhone/iPad
- Remote control with touch, keyboard, Apple Pencil
- Encrypted connections with TLS 1.3
- Adjustable streaming quality and frame rate
- Virtual display option for continuous updates
- Multiple connection modes (Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct, Remote)
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Sill shows a window from your Mac, or its whole desktop, on your iPhone or iPad, and lets you use it with touch, a keyboard, a touchscreen trackpad or Apple Pencil. It streams straight from your Mac to your device over your own network, so there is no account to create and no server in between. You pair each device once, and every connection is encrypted. Both parts are free: the Sill app for iPhone and iPad, and Sill for Mac. Streaming: * Any single Mac window, or the whole Desktop, on your iPhone or iPad * Hardware HEVC video, up to 120 fps on ProMotion screens (60 elsewhere); the rate follows each device * Seven bitrate quality presets, from Low (4 Mbps) to Extreme (150 Mbps), plus Resolution, a frame-rate limit and Prioritize Encoding Speed * Text size (Aa): resizes your Mac window to fit your screen, so text is the size you want * Optional virtual display: a window streams from its own HiDPI display, sized to your device, and keeps updating even when covered on your Mac; full-screen video works too Controls: * Touch: tap to click, drag to scroll with momentum, touch and hold to right-click * Apple Pencil as the mouse, with hover * Software and hardware keyboards, with ⌘, ⌃ and ⌥ shortcuts, plus a key row with latching modifiers and a Spotlight key * Laptop layout when you hold the device upright: the picture on top, a key row and a trackpad (two-finger scroll, two-finger tap, hold then drag, three-finger gestures for Mission Control, App Exposé, switching Spaces, Apps and Show Desktop) * Dedicated iPhone and iPad layouts * Each Mac app's menus (File, Edit, View, etc) on your device, behind a Menus button * Window thumbnails: switch with a tap; hold one for close, minimize and full screen; drag to reorder * An Apps drawer: open windows and all installed apps, with search, and it launches apps Connecting: * Finds your Mac automatically; each Mac has 4 modes: Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct or Remote * USB cable (Wired) support, and a live session moves between the cable and Wi-Fi without dropping * Direct Wireless Connection (Direct, optional), for when you and your Mac don't share a network * Remote Access from anywhere through your own VPN, such as Tailscale, or a port forward * Pairing: every connection encrypted with TLS 1.3; pair each device once by QR code or a 12-digit code, and a USB cable pairs by itself; Require pairing is on by default * Your Mac keeps its keys in the protected part of its keychain that only Sill can read Sill for Mac: * A ~6 MB menu bar app with a live status card: each device, its frame rate and latency * Settings: General, Devices, Streaming, Virtual Display, Remote Access and Permissions * Launch at Login, a log window, and an update check that tells you when a new version is out * A notarized disk image download from getsill.app Sill for iPhone and iPad: * A Settings panel that changes your Mac's stream settings, and shows the connection and latency * A first-run tour, and Take the Tour to replay it * Tells you when your Mac or the device needs an update Free and open source (Apache 2.0) No account, no servers, no tracking: video goes straight from your Mac to your device, forever! Website: https://getsill.app/ GitHub: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Site GitHub: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill-site
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sill at none against LifeBrain's 3. Sill also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (44 vs 1). LifeBrain's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. LifeBrain sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Sill asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LifeBrain against 4.9 for Sill. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sill has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LifeBrain ships an update every 2 months, Sill every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LifeBrain | Sill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diego Giraldo | NOAH WILLIAM SAFFER |
In-app purchases
LifeBrain
- LifeBrain Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- LifeBrain Premium Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
- LifeBrain Premium Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
Sill
No in-app purchases









