Comparison

Idea Tiles vs Oasa

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

Head to head
About

Idea Tiles

Features
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Turn one thought into a visual map of everything around it. Idea Tiles is a hexagonal brainstorming canvas for writers, designers, product thinkers, researchers, and anyone who works better with connected fragments than a blank page. Start with one tile, explore the ideas around it, and keep following the branches that matter. EXPLORE THE SPACE AROUND AN IDEA • Expand a tile into six related directions with Apple Intelligence on supported devices. • Merge two tiles into one thought that captures what they share. • Star important themes and filter a busy board down to what matters. • Undo, redo, pan, and zoom without breaking your flow. PRIVATE BY DESIGN On supported iPhone and iPad models, generation runs through Apple's on-device Foundation Models. Prompts, board context, and responses stay on your device. There is no silent cloud fallback, no account requirement, no advertising profile, and no analytics SDK in the native app. MAKE THE BOARD PORTABLE Export your work as PNG, JPG, SVG, or JSON through the standard share sheet. Send it with AirDrop or Messages, save it to Files, or keep the structured JSON for later editing. RETURN TO YOUR WORK Boards are saved locally across sessions. Template customization also uses the on-device model, and model readiness is checked again when the app returns to the foreground. ACCESSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE Idea Tiles includes VoiceOver labels, adjustable text, high-contrast options, reduced-motion support, keyboard shortcuts, and touch interactions designed for both iPhone and iPad. REQUIREMENTS • Generation requires iOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence enabled, and eligible hardware. • Canvas editing, merge, star, filter, local sessions, and export remain available without generation. • When the system model is unavailable or still preparing, Idea Tiles explains why and checks again automatically. Idea Tiles is free, with no subscription and no in-app purchases.

About

Oasa

Features
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Oasa is a calm, mindful productivity app for people who want to focus on what matters — without the guilt, badges, and red overdue counters of traditional to-do lists. WORK FRAMED AS A GARDEN, NOT A CHORE LIST Instead of folders and lists, you have Oases — gentle workspaces for projects, ideas, and life areas. Each task is a Seed you plant. Each focus session is time you spend Tending. And every action quietly grows your private Zen Garden — a living visual of your accumulated effort that never shrinks, never resets, never punishes. THREE WAYS TO PLAN, ONE FOR EVERY MOOD • Simple — a clean prioritized list when you just want to capture and do. • 80/20 — surface the Vital Seeds that matter most by ranking impact against effort. • Hyperfocus — sort tasks into Deep Work, Shallow, Distraction, and Let Go quadrants so you spend your best hours on real work. FEATURES • Plant Oases for every project, with optional due dates and reminders • Add Seeds with notes, due dates, priority, impact/effort, or focus quadrants • Break Seeds into Sprouts (subtasks) and tick them off in flow • Tend mode — built-in focus timer (15, 25, 45, 60 minutes or custom) • Today Pulse — an editorial daily snapshot of what's open, overdue, and golden • Bento Lenses — switch between Today, Loose, Matrix, and Focus views on Home • Insights — calm weekly, monthly, and quarterly analytics • Garden — eight progress stages, from barren pot to paradise • Gentle notifications and reminders that respect your attention • Apple Sign-In, Google Sign-In, and email accounts • Full light and dark mode • Available in 11 languages DESIGNED FOR CALM, NOT URGENCY Oasa rejects the patterns that make productivity apps stressful. Your Garden only grows. There are no streaks to break, no red overdue badges, no guilt loops. Colors are warm and editorial — sage green, sand, antique gold — motion is slow and meditative, and every destructive action asks twice. PERFECT FOR • Knowledge workers, creatives, founders, and freelancers who feel overwhelmed • Students balancing coursework, projects, and life • Anyone tired of clinical task apps who wants something kinder PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks belong to you. Oasa stores credentials in the device secure store and keeps the data it touches minimal. License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://oasa.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://oasa.app/privacy

Screenshots

Idea Tiles4 screens
Oasa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Idea Tiles at fortnightly against Oasa's monthly. Oasa's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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

Idea Tiles ships an update fortnightly, Oasa monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Idea Tiles versus Oasa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdea TilesOasa
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLanguageCraftCIX-Solutions

In-app purchases

None

Idea Tiles

No in-app purchases

None

Oasa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idea Tiles free?
Idea Tiles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oasa free?
Oasa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idea Tiles or Oasa have ads?
Neither Idea Tiles nor Oasa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idea Tiles or Oasa?
Idea Tiles ships an update fortnightly, and Oasa monthly. Most recently, Idea Tiles was updated on October 7, 2026 and Oasa on October 24, 2026.

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