Comparison

Sidekick Pro vs Friday

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

Head to head
About

Sidekick Pro

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Sidekick is an AI assistant for work. It's a personal agent that monitors your Gmail and Calendar, clicks and types in Chrome for you, joins your meetings, makes and receives phone calls on your behalf, and remembers everything that matters — across web, phone, and SMS. NEW: Give your Sidekick its own phone number. It answers incoming calls, takes messages, sends and receives SMS, and follows up — like a real assistant. — WHAT YOUR SIDEKICK CAN DO — INBOX & CALENDAR, ON AUTOPILOT • Realtime Gmail and Google Calendar triage — surfaces what needs you right now • Daily morning digest of your schedule • Proactively suggests next actions and offers to handle them • Reads and edits Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Google Tasks PHONE & SMS • Your assistant gets its own dedicated phone number • Make and receive calls through your Sidekick • Send and receive text messages • AI receptionist answers, triages, and takes messages on your behalf VOICE & MEETINGS • Ultra-natural voice mode for hands-free conversations • Joins your Zoom and Google Meet calls to take notes and follow up • Listening mode for real-time summaries and suggestions • Pick up the same conversation across web, phone, and SMS — without losing context MEMORYMESH™ — REMEMBERS EVERYTHING • Proprietary structured memory that persists across browser, voice, SMS, and web • Recalls every past conversation, fact, person, and workflow • Teach it once — it remembers forever ALL THE BEST AI, IN ONE PLACE • Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, and more — the right models for any task • AI-powered web search built in • No vendor lock-in WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO • iPhone and iPad • Companion browser extension that sees the page you're on, clicks and types for you, and automates any website • Desktop app with optional local model support • Push notifications, camera, photo library, and contacts integration CONNECT YOUR STACK • MCP support to plug into Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear, Salesforce, and more • Launch and manage Cursor Cloud Agents from your assistant • Scheduled automations and recurring jobs • Let any AI agent (Cursor, Claude, etc.) drive your browser via MCP Stop managing your day. Start directing it. Download Sidekick Pro and put your AI to work. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Friday

This AI companion learns from your digital life to build a private model of your habits and decisions. It works in the background to spot patterns, flag potential mistakes, protect your time, and handle routine tasks. It functions as a second brain that becomes more useful as it fine-tunes on your personal data.

Highlights
  • Learns from digital life data
  • Builds private model of habits
  • Works in background
  • Spots patterns and flags mistakes
  • Handles routine tasks
  • Personal knowledge graph
  • Encrypted data with granular permissions
Features
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Friday is a personal AI that learns from your digital life — email, calendar, documents, health data, habits — and builds a private model of how you actually live and decide. Instead of waiting for prompts like a chatbot, Friday works in the background: spotting patterns across your history, flagging decisions that look like past mistakes, protecting your time, and handling routine tasks on your behalf. It's built on a personal knowledge graph that fine-tunes on your own data, so it gets more useful the longer you use it. Data encrypted, with granular permissions over what it sees and what it's allowed to do. Not an assistant. A second brain that runs alongside yours.

Screenshots

Sidekick Pro4 screens
Friday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Friday at none against Sidekick Pro's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Sidekick Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $59.00 per month. Friday asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sidekick Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Friday weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sidekick Pro versus Friday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSidekick ProFriday
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB12 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGadget Labsboxes-ks

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sidekick Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Plus$59.001 Month
  • Business$149.001 Month
  • Ultra$200.001 Month
None

Friday

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sidekick Pro free?
Sidekick Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Friday free?
Friday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sidekick Pro or Friday have ads?
Neither Sidekick Pro nor Friday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sidekick Pro or Friday?
Sidekick Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, and Friday weekly. Most recently, Sidekick Pro was updated on October 25, 2026 and Friday on October 25, 2026.

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