Comparison

Aside vs Guyun

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

Head to head
About

Aside

Consolidate all your saved content, from links and notes to photos and files, into a single, searchable library. Utilize a personal agent to process and summarize your saved materials, making information retrieval and organization effortless.

Highlights
  • Save links, text, photos, and files from other apps
  • Personal agent for summarizing and processing saved content
  • Searchable library by content type, tags, and collections
  • Automatic content type recognition and tagging
  • Offline access with local library
  • Cross-device syncing via Arc Space
  • Publish collections as shareable web pages
Features
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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 and put them to work. SAVE FROM OTHER APPS Use the Share Sheet to save links, text, photos, and files to Aside. LEAVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR PERSONAL AGENT Connect through Arc Space and leave instructions on a saved item or collection—such as turning saved desk notes into a checklist or summarizing reading guides. Your Personal Agent works with the materials you saved and sends a readable Brief back to Aside under Instructions. 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, organizing, and collaborating with your Personal Agent across devices. 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.

About

Guyun

Features
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Guyun keeps your files in object storage you own: Alibaba Cloud OSS, Tencent Cloud COS, Qiniu, Upyun, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, or any S3-compatible service. No account system, no server of ours, no telemetry — files go straight from this device to your own bucket. The app provides no cloud space and takes no cut of your storage. ■ Why "your own storage" Most cloud drives keep your files on the vendor's servers, which decides the speed, the capacity and the price. Guyun is the other way round: the bucket, the keys and the bill are yours, and your provider bills storage and traffic at its published rates. Guyun never bills you for either. ■ What it does · Browse and manage: grid or list, sorted by name, date or size; whole-bucket search, not just the folder you are in; new folders, rename, copy, move · Upload and download: from Files or Photos, or a whole folder at once, through a queue you can pause and resume; downloads go to a folder or to Photos · iOS background transfers: files up to 200 MB go to the system as one request and finish even if you switch apps or lock the screen; larger files continue with the background time granted · Progress anywhere: a small pill shows how many transfers are running and how far along they are · Usage ledger: how much Guyun itself moved — today, this month and last month, by bucket and by device, with cellular counted separately on this device. Only this app's transfers, never your provider's bill · Storage size: measure a bucket to get its file count and total size; a large bucket can be finished over several taps, and the result stays on this device · Archive files are marked; the app asks before a restore (how long, billed by your provider, cannot be cancelled), and afterwards preview and download work as usual · Preview: zoom images, play video while it is still loading, open PDF and text · Trash: a delete moves the item to the bucket's own trash folder, where it can be restored or removed for good · Several devices: the same bucket on iPhone, iPad and Mac; hand a configuration over by scanning a code instead of typing keys · Make it yours: an icon per storage, a sidebar you can reorder, and storages you do not need hidden away (back in Settings → Storage service) · Locks: Face ID / Touch ID for the whole app or one storage; transfers keep running while locked, and turning a lock off always asks for authentication first ■ Privacy, in plain terms · No account and no server of ours: the app talks to the storage address you enter, and to nothing else · Access keys live in this device's Keychain, never uploaded to us and never synced through iCloud · Keys leave the device only when you deliberately hand a storage to another device: the handoff code contains them in plain text, so show it only to your own device and treat it like a password · No usage data collected; no third-party SDKs, no analytics, no ads · Face ID / Touch ID is handled by the system, and that data never leaves your device · Both locks are screen gates, not encryption: they keep out someone who picks up your unlocked device ■ Try it without any storage A local demo storage is built in: sample photos, a video and a PDF are generated on device. No account, no keys, no network — browse, preview, upload, rename, copy, move, delete and restore, all without a single credential. ■ What you need A bucket, and a key pair allowed to use only that bucket. Pick the service and place and the app fills in the endpoint and region; you enter the bucket name and the keys (Tencent COS also asks for the APPID ending its bucket names). Guides for every service are on our website, including an Alibaba Cloud template that creates the bucket, the RAM user and the keys at once. ■ Languages Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English (switch in Settings; applies next time you open the app). Support: contact@airdiode.com Privacy policy: https://www.godar.cn/Guyun-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Aside4 screens
Guyun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Guyun at weekly against Aside's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Aside ships an update fortnightly, Guyun weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Aside versus Guyun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsideGuyun
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArcBlock, Inc.晖 江

In-app purchases

None

Aside

No in-app purchases

None

Guyun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aside free?
Aside is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Guyun free?
Guyun is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aside or Guyun have ads?
Neither Aside nor Guyun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aside or Guyun?
Aside ships an update fortnightly, and Guyun weekly. Most recently, Aside was updated on November 9, 2026 and Guyun on November 10, 2026.

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