Comparison

footnotes vs Aside

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

Head to head
About

footnotes

Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.

Highlights
  • Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
  • Organize notes into different notebooks
  • Build a timeline of life's moments
  • Create shareable stories from moments
  • Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.

About

Aside

Features
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Aside is a journal built around how you actually think, not a blank page waiting for a perfect first sentence. Speak an entry, or type it if you'd prefer. Attach a photo to hold onto a moment, tag it so it's easy to find later. Once a day settles, Aside writes a short reflection noticing what actually stood out, plainly and without ever rewriting your words. Once a week, a longer one — a mood that shifted, a person who came up more than once, a contrast worth sitting with, written like a thoughtful note. Everything is organized by day and by week, always there to look back on. Export your full journal, entries and photos, whenever you want it. Aside. Capture life, notice patterns. Terms of Use (EULA): https://useaside.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://useaside.app/privacy

Screenshots

footnotes4 screens
Aside4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: footnotes at none against Aside's 2. 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. Aside sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. footnotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

footnotes ships an update every 2 days, Aside every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
footnotes versus Aside: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfootnotesAside
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (158 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings158 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDoppler HQ, IncJASMINE NICOLE WRIGHT

In-app purchases

None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Aside

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Annual$59.991 Year

Questions

Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aside free?
Aside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do footnotes or Aside have ads?
Neither footnotes nor Aside shows ads.
Which is updated more often, footnotes or Aside?
footnotes ships an update every 2 days, and Aside every 3 days. Most recently, footnotes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Aside on October 4, 2026.

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