Comparison

Hobby Quests vs Sidequest

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

Head to head
About

Hobby Quests

This app helps you track and discover personal hobbies. Log your practice sessions, view progress over time, and explore new interests with curated suggestions and guides. It's designed for private use with no account or cloud sync required.

Highlights
  • Track hobby sessions with duration and notes
  • Visualize practice progress over weeks and months
  • Discover new hobbies across various categories
  • Get curated hobby suggestions
  • Access Quick Start guides for new hobbies
  • Review yearly progress with total sessions and hours
  • Private by design with no account or cloud sync
Features
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Some things in your life aren't goals. They're just good. The guitar you pick up on Sunday mornings. The bread you've been baking for three years. The trail you run when work gets heavy. These are your side quests — and they're worth keeping track of. Hobby Quests is a personal hobby journal built around one idea: the things you love enough to keep doing are proof of a life well lived. TRACK YOUR QUESTS Add any hobby as a quest. Log sessions when you do it — how long, how it felt, a quick note. Watch your practice build up over weeks and months into something you can actually see. DISCOVER NEW ONES Browse a curated library of hobbies across creative, outdoor, culinary, craft, and wellness categories. Get handpicked suggestions based on what you're already into. Every hobby comes with a Quick Start guide so you know exactly how to begin. LOOK BACK ON YOUR PROGRESS A Look Back screen shows your year at a glance — total sessions, hours invested, streaks, and a full timeline of every entry you've made. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything lives on your device. No account required. No cloud sync. No ads. Your hobbies are yours.

About

Sidequest

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Tired of weeks blending in? Feeling stuck in life? Want to escape the 9-5 repetitive routine? You need to do more sidequests. Try one new thing every week. Experiment. Have fun! Make memories. Sidequest gives you a small quest every Sunday - cold shower, phone-free morning, cook something you can't pronounce, run a 5k.. Do it for 7 days straight and make yourself a memory. Snap a photo along the way. By December you've got 52 little polaroids and a year that didn't blur into the last one. How it works Every Sunday night, four new quests drop. Three picked for you and one shared for everyone. You pick one and only one. You're in for 7 days. Every day you do the thing and take a photo - one tap, no filters, no editing. The photo gets a date and lands in your scrapbook. Miss a day, that day stays empty. The gaps are part of the record. The point isn't to be perfect. The point is to do things! The community quest One of the four quests each week is the shared one - a pick anyone using the app can opt into. Choose it and you're in alongside everyone else who also picked it that week, your friends included if you can talk them into the same one. After your daily check-in you see how the rest of the cohort answered the day's poll - what they cooked, how cold the shower really was, whether they made it past day three. On the days you almost skipped, it helps. What you get back - A scrapbook that fills up over the year without you having to organise it - Quests you'd actually want to tell someone about - A photo a day, 30 seconds, no streak shame, no badges - A year you can flip back through in December and actually recognise Who it's for Anyone whose weeks have started to feel the same. People who watch other people live and want to do a bit of their own. The friend who hasn't got a story this month. People who don't really want a habit tracker or a journal or another productivity app - they just want a reason to do something different on a Tuesday. Not a habit tracker. Not a journal. Not a productivity dashboard. Just a small dare every Sunday, with a photo to show for it. Things worth knowing - No accounts, no email, no follower counts, no ads - Your photos and notes live on your phone (local-first - they're yours) Got a quest idea or a question? hello@side-quest.lol Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://side-quest.lol/privacy

Screenshots

Hobby Quests4 screens
Sidequest4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hobby Quests and Sidequest are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Hobby Quests sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sidequest sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hobby Quests versus Sidequest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHobby QuestsSidequest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDEVIKA BHARDWAJMartin Dimitrov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hobby Quests

One-time1
  • Hobby Quests Premium$4.99
3 purchases

Sidequest

Subscriptions2
  • Sidequest Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Sidequest Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sidequest Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Hobby Quests free?
Hobby Quests is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sidequest free?
Sidequest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hobby Quests or Sidequest have ads?
Neither Hobby Quests nor Sidequest shows ads.

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