Comparison

Spring vs Marginalias

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

Head to head
About

Spring

Build better habits and break bad ones with a simple, privacy-focused tracker. Monitor your progress, stay accountable with streaks, and receive smart reminders to maintain consistency. Reflect on your journey with habit notes and gain insights into your patterns.

Highlights
  • Simple habit tracking
  • Abstinence counters
  • Streak tracking
  • Smart reminders
  • Habit notes
  • Progress insights
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Spring: Daily Habit Tracker Build better habits, break bad ones, and watch your streaks grow. Spring is a simple, privacy-focused habit tracker designed to help you stay consistent without the complexity. WHY SPRING? Unlike other habit apps that overwhelm you with features, Spring focuses on what actually works: tracking your progress, staying accountable, and celebrating your wins. CORE FEATURES Simple Habit Tracking Create daily habits and check them off with a tap. Morning routines, evening wind-downs, or anytime goals—organize habits by time of day. Abstinence Counters Breaking a bad habit? Track how long you've stayed strong with dedicated quit counters. See your progress in days, weeks, and beyond. Streak Tracking Stay motivated by building streaks. Visual progress keeps you accountable and helps turn actions into lasting habits. Smart Reminders Never forget a habit with customizable notifications. Get reminded at the right time to stay on track. Habit Notes Reflect on your journey by adding notes to your habit completions. Track context, mood, or anything that matters to you. Progress Insights View your habit history and see patterns over time. Understand when you're most consistent and where you can improve. iCloud Sync Your habits sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices. Start on iPhone, check off on iPad. PRIVACY FIRST Your habit data stays on your device. No third-party analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your personal growth is nobody's business but yours. SPRING+ PREMIUM Get unlimited habits and counters with Spring+. Free users can track up to 5 habits and 2 counters. • Monthly: $4.99/month • Yearly: $34.99/year ($2.92/month) Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://offmenu.design/spring/privacy

About

Marginalias

Features
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Keep the quote with its source Evidence Board collects exact passages across your documents, with topics and notes. Verify each clip against the local source and share a focused Markdown evidence sheet. • Open a document → Clip evidence. Enter an exact passage of at least three characters and choose its occurrence. • Save a topic and note with the clip. Open Evidence Board from the library to find and review clips. • Open a clip to verify its quote and source hash, edit notes, or share the visible board. Exact case-sensitive matching shows up to 32 occurrences. A source hash identifies the local text version; it is not proof of authorship or truth. Up to 256 clips and 1 MiB are retained. Unavailable or changed sources are reported. Marginalias is a private reading companion for your own documents. Import text-based PDFs, plain text, or Markdown notes, then use on-device intelligence to summarize, ask questions, and pull out useful structure without sending your content to a developer server. Build a local library of documents, open the source text whenever you need it, and keep AI output close to the material it came from. Marginalias is designed for focused review, research, note cleanup, study, and document triage. Features: - Import text-based PDFs, plain text, and Markdown - Keep a searchable local document library - Generate concise document summaries - Ask questions grounded in document excerpts - Inspect exact evidence excerpts, character ranges, and PDF pages behind generated claims - See the retrieved context used for each answer - Extract key points, action items, outlines, and glossary terms - Copy and share generated output - Use light, dark, or system appearance - Review a bundled sample document before importing your own files Privacy: Marginalias does not require an account, does not include analytics or advertising SDKs, and does not collect your documents or AI output. Documents and generated output stay on your device. Device note: AI features use Apple on-device intelligence. If Apple Intelligence is unavailable or not enabled, importing and reading documents still work and the app explains the requirement.

Screenshots

Spring4 screens
Marginalias3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spring at Free against Marginalias's $3.99. Marginalias's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Spring is free to download; Marginalias costs $3.99 up front. Spring sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Marginalias asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Spring versus Marginalias: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpringMarginalias
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHASE HUNTER,LEE HAMMONDSRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spring

Subscriptions2
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$4.991 Month
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$34.991 Year
None

Marginalias

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring free?
Spring is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marginalias free?
Marginalias costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spring or Marginalias have ads?
Neither Spring nor Marginalias shows ads.

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