Phaseboard vs Source Browser for Research
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phaseboard
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For the moments when products, prototypes, side projects, and late-night ideas are all alive at once. Phaseboard is a quiet, beautiful place to keep them, with each one's current stage, progress, and the one thing to do next. Every project breaks down the same way. From outermost to innermost: project, stage, task, subtask. Statuses roll up automatically as you check things off, so the dashboard always shows which projects deserve your time today. Phaseboard is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your projects sync privately through your own iCloud, with full offline support. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen views, and a Mac menu bar tile keep what you're working on always in sight. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://phaseboard.app/privacy Subscription and refund terms: https://phaseboard.app/terms
Source Browser for Research
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Source Browser is a browser designed to turn what you find on the web into something you can actually use later. Instead of simply saving pages to “read later,” you can keep screenshots, screen recordings, quotes, links, and analysis results, then organize them together in NOTE. Capture a moment with SHOT. Record the flow of a page with REC. Save important passages as quotes, while keeping everything connected to its original source. Your collected materials can be organized, rearranged, and edited in a conversation-style NOTE. Research. Save. Connect. Source Browser turns your browsing into material for your next idea.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Source Browser for Research at every 3 days against Phaseboard's every 2 months. Phaseboard's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Phaseboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Source Browser for Research sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Phaseboard ships an update every 2 months, Source Browser for Research every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phaseboard | Source Browser for Research |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 东堃 许 | YUKIYA SHIMODA |
In-app purchases
Phaseboard
- Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Pro · Lifetime$14.99
Source Browser for Research
- TEXT MAP$1.99
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