Comparison

Oscilla vs ProjectBoard

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

Head to head
About

Oscilla

This app provides private AI capabilities directly on your iPhone and Mac. Interact with AI models that run locally, allowing for offline use, personalized workspaces, and understanding of documents and images. It offers features like voice conversations and web search for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Local AI models for offline use
  • Voice conversations with AI
  • Built-in memory for context
  • Project organization for related chats
  • Personalized AI assistants
  • Web search for current information
  • File and image understanding
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Private AI. Built Around You. Oscilla brings local AI to your iPhone and Mac. Write, brainstorm, understand documents, and talk things through with AI models that run on your own device. Choose your models, make them your own, and build a workspace around the way you think. - Local AI — Download models and chat offline. - Voice conversations — Speak naturally and hear responses with Voice Mode. - Built-in memory — Keep useful context for more personalized conversations. - Projects — Bring related chats, instructions, and reference files together. - Personal Assistants — Create focused helpers with their own instructions and knowledge. - Web Search — Find current information with sources. - File and image understanding — Ask questions about documents, screenshots, and images with supported models. - OS Bridge — Chat from your iPhone while your Mac runs the model, including models your iPhone couldn’t run on its own. Your AI. On your devices. Under your control. Web Search requires internet access and setup. Features vary by device and model.

About

ProjectBoard

Features
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ProjectBoard — projects, tasks, notes, and files in one place. Everything a project needs lives together: the tasks, the notes, the files, and the conversation. No more scattering one project across four apps. PLAN YOUR DAY, NOT JUST YOUR LIST Drag a task onto the calendar to block time for it. Let Plan My Day pack your tasks into the gaps you actually have free — it reads your real calendar, so it schedules around meetings instead of pretending they don't exist. Start a focus session and work a block at a time. TASKS THAT MATCH HOW YOU THINK Subtasks for the steps. #tags across projects. Saved smart lists for the views you return to. An Inbox that catches anything you haven't sorted yet. WRITES THE BORING PARTS FOR YOU — ON DEVICE Smart Fill turns a sentence into a task with the right date, project, and priority. Your Daily Brief tells you what matters this morning. Smart Inbox Triage sorts what piled up. Search understands what you meant, not just what you typed. It runs on your device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN A genuine Mac app — split view, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts throughout. iPhone and iPad. An Apple Watch app for checking off work from your wrist. Home and Lock Screen widgets you can tap to complete a task. Shortcuts and voice for capture without opening anything. FILES WHERE YOU EXPECT THEM A ProjectBoard folder in Finder and the Files app, syncing both ways. Open documents straight in from Finder, or share them in from any app. Annotate with inline markup. BUILT FOR WORKING TOGETHER Share a project, chat alongside the work, and watch tasks and notes update live as your team moves. START FASTER Seven built-in project templates, or build your own with tasks that schedule themselves relative to your start date or deadline.

Screenshots

Oscilla4 screens
ProjectBoard2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Oscilla at weekly against ProjectBoard's every 2 months. ProjectBoard's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oscilla ships an update weekly, ProjectBoard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Oscilla versus ProjectBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOscillaProjectBoard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (32 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMatthew David FuscoRebecca Adormeh-Kwao

In-app purchases

None

Oscilla

No in-app purchases

None

ProjectBoard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Oscilla free?
Oscilla is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ProjectBoard free?
ProjectBoard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Oscilla or ProjectBoard have ads?
Neither Oscilla nor ProjectBoard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Oscilla or ProjectBoard?
Oscilla ships an update weekly, and ProjectBoard every 2 months. Most recently, Oscilla was updated on October 31, 2026 and ProjectBoard on October 28, 2026.

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