Scene vs Olive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scene
Easily save event details from social media posts or screenshots. AI extracts dates, times, and venues, organizing them into a personal feed. Get reminders and discover community events.
- AI-powered event detail extraction
- Save events from any app
- Organized event feed
- Push notifications for reminders
- RSVP to events
- Discover community events
- Multi-city support
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See a flyer on Instagram? A story about a show? Share it to Scene and we'll pull out the details — date, time, venue, lineup — so you don't have to remember or screenshot anything. Scene turns posts into plans. Share event posts from Instagram, Safari, or any app, and Scene extracts the details using AI. No more scrolling back through your feed trying to find that one flyer. How it works: 1. See an event post anywhere on your phone 2. Tap Share or screenshot → Scene 3. Scene reads the image or link and extracts the event details 4. The event appears in your feed, organized and easy to find later Features: • AI-powered extraction — Share a flyer, screenshot, or link and get structured event details in seconds • Works from any app — Instagram, Safari, Messages, wherever you find events • Push notifications — Get reminded about upcoming events you've saved • Save and RSVP — Mark events you're interested in or going to • Community — See what events people around you are discovering • Multi-city support — Track events in more than one city Stop doomscrolling, start living
Olive
Discover curated, digestible stories on topics you're curious about, from science to design to business. Become more informed and interesting with daily content tailored to your interests.
- Curated story selection
- Interest-based content
- Digestible story format
- Daily content updates
- Accuracy focus
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The best ideas on the web, gathered for you. Olive is a feed for your curiosity. Tell it what you're into - anything from relativity to why Herman Miller chairs became iconic to early startup stories. Each card is synthesized from sources across the web, and you can always click into a source to dig deeper and learn more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Scene at free against Olive's ad-supported. Scene also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Olive's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scene against 5.0 for Olive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Scene ships an update weekly, Olive every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Scene | Olive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Fuente | Olive Platform |
Customer experience
Scene
Olive
In-app purchases
Scene
No in-app purchases
Olive
No in-app purchases
