Comparison

Onward vs Flyout

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

Head to head
About

Onward

This app combines tasks, events, and calendars into a single, calm interface. It offers natural language input for dates, organized lists, and gentle reminders. Syncs with existing calendars and supports real-time collaboration on shared lists.

Highlights
  • Natural language date input
  • Organize with personal or shared lists
  • Built-in day, week, month calendar view
  • Customizable gentle reminders
  • Search across all tasks and events
  • Syncs with Google and Apple Calendar
  • Real-time shared list collaboration
Features
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Onward keeps your tasks, events, and calendars in one calm place — without ads, tracking, or noisy notifications. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Capture tasks and events in seconds, with natural-language dates like "tomorrow at 3pm" • Organize with personal lists or shared lists for family and friends • See everything by day, week, or month in the built-in calendar • Get gentle reminders at the offset you choose (default 15 minutes before) • Search across every task and event — past, future, completed, or open WORKS WITH YOUR EXISTING CALENDARS • Sync personal events with Google Calendar — two-way, automatic • Connect Apple Calendar to pull your iPhone events straight in • Hide calendars you don't care about (subscribed holidays, work, etc.) per source SHARED LISTS AND CALENDARS • Add a friend with their Onward handle and share a list or calendar one-on-one • Everyone in a shared list can add, edit, and check off items in real time • Get a push when someone adds something — toggle off any time from Settings RECURRING ITEMS, DONE RIGHT • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or any custom interval • Edit one occurrence without breaking the rest of the series • Skip dates, end a series early, or split off a new schedule cleanly DESIGNED FOR FOCUS • Dark mode by default — easier on the eyes morning and night • Multi-day tasks and events span every day they touch • "Today" surfaces what's actually due today, including in-progress multi-day items PRIVACY YOU CAN ACTUALLY TRUST • No ads. No analytics SDKs. No third-party trackers. • Your data lives in Firebase under standard security rules — only you (and people you explicitly share with) can read it • Delete your entire account from inside the app any time, no questions asked Sign in with email, Google, or Apple. Sync across all your devices. Get started in under a minute. Gentle reminders. Better days.

About

Flyout

Features
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Flyout is a markdown note app for iPhone and iPad. Capture from the share sheet, Control Centre, a Home Screen widget or Shortcuts, then find the note again with folders, tags and search. Turn on iCloud sync and your notes travel through your own iCloud account — nothing passes through our servers. Buy "Flyout for iPhone and Mac" and the Mac app is included, where a full editor slides out from the edge of your screen over your work. There is an iPhone-only option at a lower price. WHAT YOU GET • Quick notes — a tabbed scratchpad for what you never need to file • A real editor — headings, lists, tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, files • Reminders that live inside the note, not in a separate app • Tags that cut across folders, and folders for everything else • Lock a note with a password — it is encrypted on your device and in iCloud • iCloud sync on your own account — nothing passes through our servers • Capture from the share sheet, Control Centre, a Home Screen widget or Shortcuts TRY IT FIRST Seven days, everything unlocked. When the trial ends your notes stay and keep syncing; only writing pauses until you buy. PRIVACY Sync stays off until you turn it on. Once it is on, your notes travel through your own iCloud account. We do not run a server that holds notes, we cannot read them, and there is no account to create. Locked notes are encrypted with a key derived from your password.

Screenshots

Onward4 screens
Flyout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Onward at none against Flyout's 2. Onward also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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. Flyout sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Onward asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onward ships an update every 2 days, Flyout every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Onward versus Flyout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnwardFlyout
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTEPHEN HALASGORKEM YILDIRIM

In-app purchases

None

Onward

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Flyout

One-time2
  • Flyout for iPhone$9.99
  • Flyout for iPhone and Mac$29.99

Questions

Is Onward free?
Onward is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flyout free?
Flyout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Onward or Flyout have ads?
Neither Onward nor Flyout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onward or Flyout?
Onward ships an update every 2 days, and Flyout every 4 days. Most recently, Onward was updated on September 25, 2026 and Flyout on October 13, 2026.

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