Soft Reset vs Sidequest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soft Reset
This app helps you explore new life directions and hobbies through guided prompts and surveys. It's designed for those feeling stuck or seeking change, offering a space for self-discovery without pressure.
- Guided life-direction prompts
- Hobby exploration tools
- Personalized paths forward
- Self-reflection and understanding
- Gentle unpacking of current state
- Exploration without pressure
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Soft Reset is a life-direction app designed for moments when you feel unsure, burned out, or just craving change. Through thoughtful prompts, hobby exploration, and guided surveys, Soft Reset turns your feelings, patterns, and curiosities into personalized paths forward, whether that means exploring a new career direction, rediscovering forgotten interests, trying something new, or simply understanding yourself better. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about listening. What Soft Reset helps you do: Gently unpack where you are in life, emotionally, creatively, and practically Explore new directions without pressure or commitment Turn reflection into clarity, not overwhelm Who It’s For: People feeling stuck, lost, or in between chapters. Creatives, overthinkers, and quiet reset-seekers. Anyone who wants direction without being told what to do. Soft Reset doesn’t promise a new life overnight. It gives you space to softly begin again, on your own terms. App terms of service: https://softreset.us/terms-and-conditions
Sidequest
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Tired of weeks blending in? Feeling stuck in life? Want to escape the 9-5 repetitive routine? You need to do more sidequests. Try one new thing every week. Experiment. Have fun! Make memories. Sidequest gives you a small quest every Sunday - cold shower, phone-free morning, cook something you can't pronounce, run a 5k.. Do it for 7 days straight and make yourself a memory. Snap a photo along the way. By December you've got 52 little polaroids and a year that didn't blur into the last one. How it works Every Sunday night, four new quests drop. Three picked for you and one shared for everyone. You pick one and only one. You're in for 7 days. Every day you do the thing and take a photo - one tap, no filters, no editing. The photo gets a date and lands in your scrapbook. Miss a day, that day stays empty. The gaps are part of the record. The point isn't to be perfect. The point is to do things! The community quest One of the four quests each week is the shared one - a pick anyone using the app can opt into. Choose it and you're in alongside everyone else who also picked it that week, your friends included if you can talk them into the same one. After your daily check-in you see how the rest of the cohort answered the day's poll - what they cooked, how cold the shower really was, whether they made it past day three. On the days you almost skipped, it helps. What you get back - A scrapbook that fills up over the year without you having to organise it - Quests you'd actually want to tell someone about - A photo a day, 30 seconds, no streak shame, no badges - A year you can flip back through in December and actually recognise Who it's for Anyone whose weeks have started to feel the same. People who watch other people live and want to do a bit of their own. The friend who hasn't got a story this month. People who don't really want a habit tracker or a journal or another productivity app - they just want a reason to do something different on a Tuesday. Not a habit tracker. Not a journal. Not a productivity dashboard. Just a small dare every Sunday, with a photo to show for it. Things worth knowing - No accounts, no email, no follower counts, no ads - Your photos and notes live on your phone (local-first - they're yours) Got a quest idea or a question? hello@side-quest.lol Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://side-quest.lol/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Soft Reset at daily against Sidequest's every 6 days. Sidequest's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Soft Reset sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Sidequest sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Soft Reset ships an update daily, Sidequest every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soft Reset | Sidequest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ashley Pokorski | Martin Dimitrov |
In-app purchases
Soft Reset
- Soft Reset Plus$8.991 Month
- Soft Reset Yearly$24.991 Year
Sidequest
- Sidequest Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Sidequest Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Sidequest Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Sidequest Pro Lifetime$24.99









