Comparison

Magpie vs allso

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

Head to head
About

Magpie

Capture fleeting thoughts and ideas from any source, including voice notes and shared links. Your captured content is automatically organized and accessible within your writing tools, like Claude, when you need it most. Own your notes as plain text files, ensuring they are always yours.

Highlights
  • Capture voice notes
  • Save text thoughts
  • Share and transcribe links
  • Integrates with writing tools
  • Organizes ideas automatically
  • Plain text file ownership
Features
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Stop losing your best ideas. That spark while scrolling TikTok. The shower thought. The perfect phrasing from a Claude conversation. Something from a podcast you meant to remember. By the time you sit down to write, it's gone. Magpie gives your ideas a place to land. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE - Voice notes on the go - Quick text thoughts - Share links (TikToks, YouTube, podcasts, articles) and Magpie transcribes them READY IN CLAUDE WHEN YOU WRITE Your notes aren't trapped in this app. When you open Claude on your computer, your ideas are already there. Working in Cowork? Already loaded. You just talk to Claude like normal and it knows what you've been thinking about. BUILT FOR WRITERS WHO THINK EVERYWHERE Writing a Substack or blog on the side? Ideas hit all day in all the wrong places. Magpie captures them and organizes everything automatically. Zero setup. When you finally sit down to write, everything's waiting. YOUR NOTES, YOUR CONTROL Everything stored as plain text files you own. Not locked in any app. Yours forever. HOW IT WORKS Capture → Store → Write. Save an idea today. Three months from now, ask Claude "what have I been thinking about productivity?" or "show me what I saved last week" and it knows. PERFECT FOR - Writers who think faster than they can type - Anyone whose best ideas happen mid-Claude - Substackers, bloggers, creators who need their ideas to show up when they write Free to start. 25 notes a month. Upgrade for unlimited notes and video transcription. Visit mymagpie.app for tutorials. Terms of Use: https://www.mymagpie.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.mymagpie.app/privacy

About

allso

Consolidate your email, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger conversations into a single, calm inbox. AI prioritizes important messages, and a daily brief helps you start your day informed. Reply directly from the app and enjoy a clutter-free communication experience.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for email, Instagram, and Messenger
  • AI-powered message prioritization
  • Daily summary of important messages
  • Reply directly from the app
  • Calm and minimalist design
  • Privacy-focused data handling
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Everything important. Nothing overwhelming. Modern communication is scattered and loud. We bounce between email, Instagram, and Messenger all day, and the messages that matter get buried under promotions, notifications, and noise. allso is not here to help you process more messages. It helps you notice the ones worth your time, so you can spend less of your day checking apps and more of it present with the people and conversations that count. WHAT ALLSO DOES Your people, all in one place. Connect multiple Gmail accounts, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Your work email, personal email, business email, DMs, and Messenger conversations finally come together in one calm place. People before platforms. Instead of remembering which app a conversation happened in, allso organizes communication around the person behind it. Your Attention is important Choose when you want allso to brief you. It keeps up with your connected accounts and brings forward the conversations and updates that deserve your attention. Know what needs you. Important conversations rise naturally to the top, while everything else stays out of the way until you need it. Move through messages differently. allso's four-way swipe lets you quickly decide what to read, reply to, come back to, or move past—without staring at an endless list of unread messages. Start your day caught up. Instead of opening app after app, begin with a brief of what happened while you were away and what deserves your attention now. DESIGNED AROUND YOUR PRIVACY Your messages are yours. allso uses your connected accounts only to create your inbox and personalized briefs. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, is never sold, and is never used for advertising. When you disconnect an account, its messages are permanently deleted. ALLSO PREMIUM Start with a 14-day free trial. After that, allso Premium is a monthly auto-renewing subscription billed to your Apple Account. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple Account settings. Questions or feedback? We would love to hear from you at hi@allso.ai. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ allso Terms of Service: https://www.allso.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.allso.ai/privacy

Screenshots

Magpie4 screens
allso4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Magpie at none against allso's shown. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Magpie sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month and allso sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $10.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Magpie against 5.0 for allso. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Magpie versus allso: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagpieallso
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRebecca SpitzerAllso Tech

Customer experience

Magpie

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

allso

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Magpie

Subscriptions1
  • Magpie Unlimited$7.991 Month
1 purchases

allso

Subscriptions1
  • allso premium$10.001 Month

Questions

Is Magpie free?
Magpie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is allso free?
allso is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Magpie or allso?
Magpie and allso are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Magpie or allso have ads?
allso shows ads; Magpie does not.

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