Comparison

Epoca vs BigSplice

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

Head to head
About

Epoca

This app transforms your focus sessions into a cosmic evolutionary journey. Lock your device to progress through historical eras and witness the birth of stars and civilizations. Track your deep work and unlock achievements as you stop procrastinating.

Highlights
  • Interactive historical timeline
  • Device locking for focus
  • Cosmic evolution simulation
  • Focus statistics tracking
  • Unlockable historical achievements
  • Gamified productivity tool
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Can you resist the temptation to check your phone while the universe evolves? Welcome to Epoca: Journey Through Time, the productivity tool where your focus determines the destiny of the cosmos. Turn your study or work sessions into millennia of evolution. How it works: Start your Era: Choose the historical or cosmic period you want to unlock. Lock your device: Time only moves forward if you stay away from distractions. Evolve: If you stay focused, you'll witness the birth of stars, civilizations, and future technologies. If you leave the app... time stands still. Key Features: Deep Gamification: More than a timer—it’s an interactive timeline from the origin of everything to the distant future. Focus Stats: Track how much time you’ve "lived" in a state of deep work. Historical Achievements: Unlock key human milestones as you improve your habits. Stop procrastinating and start making history. Your time is the engine of the universe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BigSplice

Features
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BigSplice is the spreadsheet for gigabyte-sized files. Where other apps choke on a 500 MB export, BigSplice opens multi-gigabyte CSV, Excel and JSON files in seconds — tens of millions of rows — and runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sort and filter millions of rows, build pivot tables, write formulas, chart the results, and ask questions about your data in plain English. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. SERVER LOGS, FINALLY READABLE Drop in a folder of IIS, nginx or Apache logs — zipped or not — and BigSplice turns them into one sheet you can actually work with: • Pivot a month of traffic in seconds: requests by status code (how many 500s? which URLs threw 404s?), by hour, by client IP, by user agent • Search every file at once: an email address, a session id, an IP — BigSplice also matches the URL-encoded and case variants, so "@outlook.com" finds "%40outlook.com" inside query strings • Ask in plain English: "which endpoints were slowest yesterday?", "how many 500 errors per hour this week?", "top 10 IPs hitting /login" — answered from your data, on your device • Formats: IIS/W3C (#Fields), nginx & Apache access logs, syslog, plain text logs; .log, .gz, .zip. A folder becomes one sheet with a file column, and new files show up when you reopen it BUILT FOR BIG FILES • Open files of any size — huge sheets appear in seconds and stay smooth as you scroll. • Sort, search and filter across millions of rows. • Column filters with value lists, and search that highlights every hit and jumps between them. REAL SPREADSHEET TOOLS • Formulas with SUM, AVERAGE, IF, VLOOKUP and hundreds more, plus quick AutoSum. • Pivot tables with drag-and-drop rows, columns and values. • Edit cells in place; export to CSV or Excel. ASK YOUR DATA • Ask a question — "which region sold the most last quarter?" — and get an answer worked out from your actual data. • Runs with Apple Intelligence on your device, a large model you download to your device, or a model server you run yourself. Every query is shown to you and needs your approval before it runs. • Ask it to build a pivot or summary table and it appears as a new sheet. • Put related sheets in a folder and ask across all of them at once: "which file has the most 500s?", "revenue per month across these three files". • New here? Load a sample dataset — server logs, city records or taxi trips — in one tap. CHARTS IN ONE TAP • Any pivot becomes a bar, line or area chart — one tap, no setup. Count the 500s by hour and see the spike. • Every Ask answer that comes back as a table gets a chart button: "chart the requests per day" and it is drawn from your real data. • Dates on the axis are recognised automatically; every numeric column becomes a series. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE • Files app, iCloud Drive, web links, ZIP archives. • Your own Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure buckets — browse folders, open files directly. Credentials stay in your device's Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no analytics. Your files never leave your device unless you choose to share them. • Optionally share sheets with Claude on your Mac or another device over Wi‑Fi or Tailscale, protected by a pairing code. BIGSPLICE PRO The free version opens files up to 150 MB with full sort, filter, pivot, formulas and export. Pro adds files up to 1 GB, Ask your data, cloud storage imports, network sharing and the large on-device model — as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Pro Unlimited is a one-time purchase that adds files over 1 GB. Family Sharing supported. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.trilonapps.com/gigasheets/privacy

Screenshots

Epoca4 screens
BigSplice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BigSplice at 3 against Epoca's 1. Epoca's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Epoca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and BigSplice sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Epoca ships an update every 6 days, BigSplice every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Epoca versus BigSplice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEpocaBigSplice
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuan Manuel BravoTrilon Apps

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Epoca

Subscriptions2
  • Epoca Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Epoca Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Epoca Premium Lifetime$49.99
4 purchases

BigSplice

Subscriptions2
  • Pro 1 GB Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Pro Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro 1 GB Lifetime$79.99
  • Pro Unlimited$199.99

Questions

Is Epoca free?
Epoca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BigSplice free?
BigSplice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Epoca or BigSplice have ads?
Neither Epoca nor BigSplice shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Epoca or BigSplice?
Epoca ships an update every 6 days, and BigSplice every 2 weeks. Most recently, Epoca was updated on October 28, 2026 and BigSplice on October 29, 2026.

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