Aside vs nook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aside
Save links, text, photos, and files from any app with a single tap. This app uses on-device AI to automatically tag and categorize your saved content, organizing it into smart collections for easy access. It offers a clean, private, and offline experience, syncing data via iCloud Drive.
- Save from any app via Share Extension
- Capture Now rapid-fire collection mode
- On-device AI auto-tagging and categorization
- Smart Collections for automatic sorting
- Customizable collections and tagging
- Offline functionality with iCloud sync
- Privacy-first design with no account required
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The things you want to keep end up everywhere—browser tabs, screenshots, messages, and app bookmarks. Aside brings links, text, photos, and files into one library, so you can find them when you need them. SAVE FROM OTHER APPS Use the Share Sheet to save links, text, photos, and files to Aside. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Search saved items or browse by content type, tags, and collections. ORGANIZE WITH LESS WORK Aside recognizes supported content types automatically. On supported devices, optional on-device AI can help add tags and categories without sending content to a cloud AI service. START WITHOUT SIGNING IN Save and organize in the Local Library on your device. No account or sign-in required. Local Library remains available offline. CONTINUE ACROSS DEVICES Sign in with DID to sync your saved content through Arc Space, then keep browsing and organizing on another device. PUBLISH YOUR COLLECTIONS After signing in and connecting to Arc Space, publish a collection as a page and share its link. You choose which collections to publish.
nook
Save articles, recipes, products, places, videos, documents, and ideas from across the web. Organize your scattered links into visual, searchable saves with context, notes, and reminders. Keep your digital life organized in one quiet place.
- Save articles, recipes, products, places, videos, documents, and ideas
- Visual and searchable saves
- Add context, notes, and reminders
- Organize saves by custom categories
- Consolidate scattered links
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Nook — Your Second Brain for Everything You Discover Ever see a coffee shop on TikTok and never find it again? Screenshot a product on Instagram and lose it in your camera roll? Nook fixes that. Nook is a save-anything app that turns scattered screenshots, DMs, and browser tabs into one organized, searchable space. Save it once, find it forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: nook at every 3 days against Aside's every 2 weeks. nook also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). 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 Aside against 5.0 for nook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Aside ships an update every 2 weeks, nook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aside | nook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ArcBlock, Inc. | Cara Rosengard |
Customer experience
Aside
nook
In-app purchases
Aside
No in-app purchases
nook
No in-app purchases
