one elsewhere vs Relic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
one elsewhere
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one elsewhere is a quiet focus practice disguised as a space flight. Start a session, put your phone down, and stay away from the screen. While you don’t interact with your phone, the flight continues. When you return, the session ends. There’s nothing to manage, nothing to optimize, and nothing to check. Just uninterrupted time — and the habit of choosing focus. Why it works one elsewhere doesn’t try to make you productive. It removes interaction and replaces it with a single, simple rule: stay present. By repeating short sessions of uninterrupted time, you gradually build a real focus habit — one that transfers beyond the app. What you get • One-tap start with a short countdown • Time and virtual distance as a metaphor for progress • Achievements that mark consistency and milestones • Simple stats to reflect on your focus sessions • Unlockable ships to personalize the experience • A minimal, calm interface designed to fade into the background Use one elsewhere while working, studying, reading, writing, training — or anytime you want to be fully present without distractions. Put your phone down. Go elsewhere.
Relic
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You already saved it. Relic makes sure you never lose it. Relic is a private vault for the things you will want again. Links, addresses, codes, screenshots, the sentence you copied last Tuesday. Put it in Relic once and it stays, on your iPhone, your iPad, and your computer. SAVE IT IN A TAP Share to Relic from anywhere: Safari, Photos, Files, Mail, any app with a share sheet. Or point the Action Button, a Back Tap, or a Shortcut at Relic and it grabs whatever is on your clipboard right then. FIND IT IN A SECOND Search runs on your own device, over your own history, so it is instant and it works with no connection at all. Search by word, by tag, or by the day it happened. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Promote anything to your vault and it stays for as long as you want it. Add a title, your own tags, and a note. Everything you add is searchable too. IN STEP EVERYWHERE Save something on your iPhone and it is waiting on your iPad within seconds. Link a new device by scanning a QR code, see everything that is connected, and sign any of it out remotely. MADE FOR IPAD Two panes on a large screen: your history on the left, what you are reading on the right. Split View, Stage Manager, rotation, and a hardware keyboard all behave the way you expect. PRIVATE BECAUSE WE CANNOT READ IT Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with XChaCha20-Poly1305 under a key derived from your passphrase with Argon2id. We store the encrypted form and a wrapped key we cannot open. No ads. No trackers. No plaintext on our servers. No cloud AI. The math enforces all of it, whether you trust us or not. DO NOT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT The encryption library that holds your key is open source (Apache-2.0) and the entire sync server is open source (AGPL-3.0). Read the code, or run the server yourself on hardware you control. Questions: support@relic.space Privacy policy: https://relic.space/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Relic at none against one elsewhere's 1. Relic also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. one elsewhere sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Relic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for one elsewhere against 5.0 for Relic. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
one elsewhere ships an update every 5 days, Relic weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | one elsewhere | Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yevhen Holota | JORDAN LEE GIBBS |
In-app purchases
one elsewhere
- One Elsewhere Pro$4.99
Relic
No in-app purchases









