Comparison

Aside vs Intentions

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

Head to head
About

Aside

Features
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Aside is your private space for thoughts, designed to feel as natural as messaging yourself. Open a conversation and capture whatever matters: text, voice notes, photos, links, GPS points, and files. Reply to your own messages, add reactions, pin important thoughts, and find anything with fast search. See something worth keeping in another app? Share it directly to Aside, choose a conversation, and it is saved for later. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU THINK • Create personal conversations for ideas, projects, reminders, journals, and more • Capture text, voice notes, photos, links, locations, and files • Reply, react, pin, search, archive, and organize • Share content straight into the conversation you choose • Customize conversations with colors, images, or emoji • Start instantly from the home screen widget PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No developer-operated cloud sync. Your conversations and attachments are stored locally in the app on your device and are not sent to the developer’s servers. ASIDE FREE AND ASIDE PRO Aside Free includes up to 3 conversations. Unlock Aside Pro with a one-time purchase to create unlimited conversations. No subscription. Capture it now. Find it when you need it. Keep it yours.

About

Intentions

Features
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A day is a finite amount of time. Not an infinite list. Most to-do apps let you keep on adding. With no restrictions. Intentions asks how much of the day is actually yours to allocate to tasks — three hours, five, eight ‚ then shows that time filling up as you add to it. When the bar turns red, it is not a warning. It is arithmetic. HOW IT WORKS Add an intention and give it a rough length: 15 minutes, 30, an hour, or two. No sliders, no minute-by-minute entry — false precision is one of the key things that Intentions argues against. The availability bar keeps the running total so you don't have to. Swipe right when something is finished. Swipe left into the Incubator, where it waits - sorted by how long it has been waiting - until you're reading to bring it back into the day. SOMEONE TO KEEP YOU HONEST Pick a coach. Bea is warm and firm and wants you to finish. Nigel keeps score and raises an eyebrow. Ivy does not do pep talks and what simply tell you when something doesn't fit. They watch how your day is stacking up and say something about it: in the morning check-in, in the evening round-up, and when an intention has been carried for five days and needs a genuine decision rather than another chance to carry over. Rename them, swap them when you need a different personality to guide you, or hide them and go at it without guidance. WHAT ELSE DOES INTENTIONS OFFER 1. A dedicated home screen widget: what is next and how full the day is 2. Siri capture — say "Add to my Intentions" and it lands in your Incubator with the app shut 3. A morning check-in and an evening round-up, at times you choose 4. Midnight rollover — anything unfinished incubates or rolls over. Your choice 5. An options that simply refuses anything taking today past your hours 6. Backup to a single file, kept somewhere of your choosing to restore at a time that suits you NO ACCOUNT. NO CLOUD. NO WATCHING There is nothing to sign up for. Your intentions live on your device in a database only this app can read. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and there is no server to lose it from. A backup goes where you send it and nowhere else. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Aside4 screens
Intentions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Aside at 16.4 against Intentions's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 1 one-off in-app purchase and Intentions sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Aside versus Intentions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsideIntentions
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlessandro ChelliPaul Morris

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Aside

One-time1
  • Aside Pro Lifetime$8.99
1 purchases

Intentions

Subscriptions1
  • Intentions Pro (Annual)$2.991 Year

Questions

Is Aside free?
Aside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intentions free?
Intentions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Aside or Intentions have ads?
Neither Aside nor Intentions shows ads.

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