Comparison

Aperture vs Go Remote Viewing

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

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Aperture

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Most practice journals can only ever agree with you. Aperture is built so it can tell you nothing happened. It hides the target, seals what you recorded before you can revise it, and scores your impressions against what was actually in the photo. You don't have to wonder whether you're improving. You can look. A SESSION, STAGE BY STAGE - Cool-down: a short breathing pacer to quiet the analytic mind - Ideogram: a fast reflexive mark, then tag the basic gestalt - Sensory: colors, textures, temperatures, sounds, forms - Sketch: the spatial layout, on a full canvas - Assemble: your final impressions, before you commit - Reveal: only now does the target appear, and the scoring begin Until you commit, the target is never shown, hinted at, or inferable. You work from a meaningless reference number. YOUR GUT, KEPT SEPARATE FROM YOUR GUESSES Raw sensory impressions stay visually separate from flagged guesses (AOL: the mind's premature conclusions). Flagging a guess never costs you points. That separation is the habit the whole method is built on. SCORING YOU CANNOT FUDGE Your score is how much of what you sensed matches what was really there, judged against a fixed vocabulary set in advance rather than your memory of what you meant. It rewards accurate sensory data, not lucky label-guessing, and shows you which impressions matched and which missed. Log enough sessions and it will tell you plainly whether you are beating chance. A REFEREE, NOT AN ORACLE (SUPPORTED IPHONES) An optional AI judge reads the session you already sealed and scores it against the target. It can lower a generous score but never inflate one, and it never tells you what you will perceive next time. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE No account, no analytics, no server of ours. Your sessions live on your device. Optional Pro sync goes only through your own private iCloud, and the judge runs on-device, so nothing you write is sent anywhere for analysis. FREE TO TRY, PROPERLY Your first 3 sessions are complete and full-featured: the whole protocol, the full target pool, real scoring. Aperture Pro then unlocks: - Unlimited sessions - The full 300+ target library - Analytics that show your results against chance - Unlimited named viewers with separate histories - Relay mode: two people, one hidden target, revealed together - Session export (JSON) Aperture Pro is $6.99/month, or $39.99/year with 1 month free, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Aperture builds on Controlled Remote Viewing, the six-stage protocol developed at SRI in the 1970s and the subject of declassified government research. It makes no claims about psychic ability and predicts nothing. It is a practice journal and an attention-training tool. Test yourself, collect your own data, draw your own conclusions. Privacy policy: https://quietoptics.com/aperture/privacy.html Terms of use: https://quietoptics.com/aperture/terms.html

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Go Remote Viewing

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Go Remote Viewing is a native learning and practice studio for the double-blind remote-viewing protocol. Learn the method, run sealed sessions alone or with a friend or proctor, compare honest calibration, and tell the story of a completed session in an optional moderated community. AN HONEST STARTING POINT Remote viewing is scientifically disputed. GRV does not claim that paranormal perception is real or tell you that you possess it. It teaches a disciplined experiment: record impressions while the target is hidden, seal the transcript, then compare it with feedback without moving the goalposts. LEARN — 16 NATIVE LESSONS The Viewer’s Path is a four-stage course covering foundations, session technique, analytical overlay, honest judging, and fair practice design. Every lesson and checkpoint is built into the app and works offline. PRACTICE SOLO — EVEN OFFLINE Session Studio guides you through the full protocol: • accept a random, non-descriptive coordinate • draw an ideogram with Apple Pencil or your finger • record gestalt and low-level sensory impressions • quarantine named guesses as analytical overlay • seal the record so it cannot be edited • reveal the hidden target and calibrate the result Choose a target style: deterministic illustrated scenes or a random draw from four curated AI-created images—a lighthouse, greenhouse, radio telescope, or ice cavern. They are bundled in the app; this local mode uses no prompt, account, network, or external AI service. Image identity stays hidden until the transcript is sealed. PRACTICE WITH A FRIEND OR PROCTOR A partner can privately view a random procedural or AI-created target, set a four-digit reveal PIN, and hand over a covered device. The viewer receives only the coordinate and follows the same blind protocol. After sealing, feedback and scoring remain locked until the proctor enters the PIN. The PIN itself is never saved; a salted verifier is stored inside the encrypted session record. ONE DAILY TARGET, SHARED WITHOUT SPOILERS Every device derives the same procedural Daily Target for the calendar day. Seal it, build a streak, and share a spoiler-free result grid so friends can compare without revealing the answer. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the blind coordinate, completion state, and local streak—never the target. App Shortcuts can open today’s practice or report your streak through Siri, Spotlight, or Shortcuts. Optional on-device reminders can prompt daily practice. AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION Targets carry structured ground truth in the vocabulary used by the sensory matrix. GRV scores a sealed transcript with two separate measures: coverage (how much of the target you reached) and precision (how much of what you recorded belonged to it). Selecting everything lowers precision. A PRIVATE PRACTICE RECORD Sealed session files are encrypted on device with a Keychain-held, device-only key; the vault file is excluded from backups. Strong sessions, partial sessions, and misses all stay in the record with streaks and calibration trends. TELL THE STORY — ONLY WHEN YOU CHOOSE After scoring, “TELL YOUR STORY IN COMMUNITY” creates a local result-facts preview. Guests can view but not edit it; sign in or create a free account to edit and publish. The generated draft excludes the transcript, notes, ideogram, sensory tags, and analytical overlay. Nothing is auto-published. Core learning and local practice need no account; synced challenges and all shared Community features need sign-in and network. Community includes stories, discussion, calibration leaderboards, private labs, reporting, blocking, rules, safety support, and in-app account deletion. No advertising. No cross-app tracking. SAFETY Use GRV for education, experimental practice, and entertainment only. Never use a session for medical, legal, financial, or safety decisions; to make claims about a named person; or in a missing-person or criminal investigation.

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Aperture4 screens
Go Remote Viewing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Go Remote Viewing at none against Aperture's 3. On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Aperture sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Go Remote Viewing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Aperture versus Go Remote Viewing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApertureGo Remote Viewing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperQuiet Optics LLCKEVIN CHRISTOPHER FLANAGAN

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Aperture

Subscriptions2
  • Aperture Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Aperture Pro — Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Aperture Pro — Lifetime$59.99
None

Go Remote Viewing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aperture free?
Aperture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Go Remote Viewing free?
Go Remote Viewing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aperture or Go Remote Viewing have ads?
Neither Aperture nor Go Remote Viewing shows ads.

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