Cosmie vs Apsides
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cosmie
Transform focus sessions into a growing universe. Earn planets, coins, and maintain streaks by completing timed work or study sessions. Block distracting apps and collaborate with friends to build shared worlds.
- Gamified focus timer
- Planet collection and customization
- Distracting app blocking (Focus Shield)
- Collaborative focus universes
- Streak tracking and progress calendar
- Daily focus goals
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Every minute you focus becomes something real. Cosmie turns your focus sessions into a growing universe. Start a timer, put your phone down, and watch a planet come to life as you work, study, or read. Finish the session and it's yours — a small world you built with your own attention. FOCUS TOGETHER • Create shared "universes" and grow them with friends • See who's focusing right now, in real time • Climb the universe leaderboard together HOW IT WORKS • Pick a focus length (20–120 minutes) or run 10–90 minute Pomodoro blocks • Start the session and stay off your phone • Complete it to earn a planet, coins, and keep your streak alive • Cancel early and your planet breaks — the gentle pressure that keeps you honest BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS • Turn on Focus Shield and pick the apps that pull you away • They stay locked until the session ends — breaks unlock them • No punishment, no guilt: the shield just keeps the door shut STAY CONSISTENT • Daily focus goals with a progress ring • Streaks and a 30-day focus calendar to keep momentum • Categories to track what you're focusing on MAKE IT YOURS • Collect different planet types with coins you earn • Unlock themes and rare planets • A calm, space-themed home for your focus habit COSMIE PREMIUM • Up to 5 universes to grow with different groups • Full theme customization — 22 premium colors • Exclusive rare planet collection Weekly or yearly plans. Free trial available for eligible accounts. Focus is hard. Cosmie makes it something you look forward to. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.cosmie.app/legal.html#terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cosmie.app/legal.html#privacy
Apsides
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Apsides is one shared place for the people you split life with: roommates, students, couples, families, or friends. Split rent and bills, share a phone plan, keep calendars in step, and soon track shared cars and finances too, without chasing anyone through group texts and spreadsheets. Make an account, start a workspace, and invite the people you share with. Everyone sees the same numbers, and each person sees only the modules they're given. HOME • Rent and utilities, split evenly, by percentage, or by fixed amounts • A running balance for each person, month by month • Record a payment, or pay by card or bank transfer • A repair board: anyone can file a request and watch it move from requested to done MOBILE • Share one phone plan across everyone on it • Import the carrier bill, and Apsides works out each person's share, including installments, add-ons and discounts • Cover someone else's line when you're paying for it • See who's paid and who's behind at a glance CALENDAR • Your own calendars, shared with anyone as view-only or editable • Repeating events and reminders, delivered as notifications • Subscribe to school, work or team calendars by link • Rent days and bill due dates appear on their own ACADEMIA • Courses by term, with credits and instructors • Handwritten notebooks for lectures, synced across your devices • Turn a page of handwriting into a clean, typed lesson GARAGE (COMING SOON) • Every shared car in one place, with mileage and service history • Maintenance reminders by date or by miles • Split gas, insurance and repairs between the people who drive it VAULT (COMING SOON) • Shared accounts and budgets for a household, a couple or a group • See where the money went, and who put in what • Savings goals you work toward together AND A LITTLE EXTRA • Sign in with Face ID • Leave the sign-in screen idle and it drifts off into a live model of the solar system PLANS Joining a workspace is always free. To own workspaces and use the AI tools, subscribe from inside the app: • Basic: own 1 workspace with up to 5 members, plus a monthly AI allowance • Plus: own up to 3 workspaces with up to 10 members each, and three times the AI allowance Every new workspace starts with a 7-day free trial. Basic and Plus are monthly auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within 24 hours before that. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID's account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.apsides.io/privacy
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Verdict
Cosmie and Apsides 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
Both are free to download. Cosmie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Apsides sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Cosmie | Apsides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yakup Acis | Preston Vaughn |
In-app purchases
Cosmie
- Weekly Plan$3.997 Days
- Yearly Premium$34.991 Year
Apsides
- Apsides Basic$3.991 Month
- Apsides Plus$7.991 Month









