# Allume — for focused thinking — user reviews > 267 indexed App Store user reviews of Allume by Milestone Made, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 332 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/allume-for-focused-thinking/id1501563902/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/allume-for-focused-thinking/id1501563902.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 275 · 4★ 27 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Allume? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Organize ideas and information - 🚀 Unique and very cool features - 👍 Indispensable app - incredibly well designed - 👍 Great thinking and creative tool - 👍 Exceptional app - 👍 Multipurpose & flexible - 👍 Game changing app for business and life - 👍 Spatial notes and organization - 👍 Completes iPad workflow with direct outlet for creativity **Cons** - 💰 Too expensive subscription price - 🔒 Lack of privacy of user data - 🔒 Requires email to try - 🐛 Bugs are prevalent - 🔒 Outrageous pricing - 🔒 No substantial difference to OneNote, Evernote etc. **Commonly reported bugs** - Eraser size issues - Undo history reset when navigating between boards - Crashes when erasing large areas - Syncing issues between devices - iPhone app not usable without iPad or Mac - Freezing and performance issues **Most requested features** - More pen color and workspace options - Zoom in/out within a board - Search functionality - Checklists - Support for pen tablets on Mac - Straight line drawing with arrowheads - Monthly payment plan ## Newest reviews (15 of 267) ### 2/5 — Good idea, but needs refining *2026-04-18, version 3.5.2* The interface is far too clunky. I spent 5-10 mins just trying to put a photo from the inbox onto a board. Sometimes it works, other times not. If a user has to struggle with the most basic functions (dragging and dropping) then I’d say the app is probably still half-baked. ### 3/5 — Its keep getting freeze *2025-11-18* Whenever i copy paste long text it freezes and crashes with all data is. Gone. ### 2/5 — No iPhone Apo *2025-10-13, version 3.4.7* In 2025, there’s no usable phone app to reference anything that you’ve worked on. ### 3/5 — Not very usable on external screen *2025-09-10, version 3.4.7* For some reason almost everything in my boards is blurry when using external monitor. It doesn't have the highest resolution but every other app or content is sharp. Text in Muse is very hard to read and hard on the eyes. ### 3/5 — Bug - hold Multi fingers to switch tools *2025-08-16* Just doesn’t work on my iPad. Also, since I use my Apple Pencil heavily, it’d be nice to have a circular pen kit that I can move around. Pens can be customised, just like the pen stand on my rest. Different types, colours, brush sizes - I love how muse lets me create multiple presets, it’s handy. Some apps make you change the pen settings (brush side for example) which affects every other colour which is not intended. Also, you could use better icons for pens. ### 4/5 — Great app! But… *2025-07-19, version 3.4.4* I love it so far! But I’d like to have more control over my pen colors and to have at least 3 maybe 4? Workspaces be the limit instead of two? Feels too limiting in my opinion. ### 2/5 — Unable to write with Stylus Pen *2025-07-11, version 3.4.4* Why unable to write or draw anything with stylus pen ? ### 5/5 — Really good app *2025-06-16, version 3.4.4* I’ve searched a lot for such app ### 5/5 — Nice reader view for PDFs *2025-06-05, version 3.4.3* Thank you for the good application, I would appreciate Ukrainian translation ### 5/5 — Unique and very cool features *2025-05-20, version 3.3.14* love how feature rich and useful this app is. This is a unique app in the sense there are infinite board zooming capabilities which is super useful. My one feedback/suggestion is too add the ability to embed iframes of videos and websites. That would be very useful. And also have pdf slides embeddable in different layouts (like horizontally, vertically, freeform, etc) ### 5/5 — I LOVE it! *2025-05-17, version 3.3.14* I’m a huge fan of using Miro as a tool for making visual notes, and orienting to information (like e.g. learning from a book) in a way that suits our spatially-skilled brains, over using flat text documents. However, it’s pretty clunky, and very much not built for my use case. Muse, on the other hand!!! I absolutely love the nested boards and quick navigation. Absolutely thrilled so far and very much looking forward to using it more ### 5/5 — Can’t believe I’ve just found this *2025-05-17, version 3.3.14* Forget about Miro - this easy to use and uncomplicated multiverse of whiteboards is perfect for organising multiple projects and housing all my notes and thoughts ### 5/5 — One of the best applications I have ever ever used *2025-05-12* Best digital space for mind ### 5/5 — Hands down, my favourite app *2025-04-26, version 3.3.14* iPad was invented so we could benefit from app like Muse. For the last three years I use it daily for work and personal “thinking”. This is my go to app for research, note taking and occasionally for presentations. Keep up with the great work Muse Team! More responsive pen features would be a nice upgrade but general app updates and bug fixes are very frequent and upgraded pens are likely to come with time. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-04-15, version 3.3.14* This is such a unique and wonderful app. I LOVE it. It has just enough features to really allow us to think in a visual, "messy", and very productive way. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Forced email disclosure *2026-06-05, version 3.5.2* Can’t even look at the app without disclosing your email. They claim it’s for your safety, but that’s what iCloud is for. I smell something stinky. ### 1/5 — Keine finktion *2026-03-31, version 3.5.2* Zeit verschvendung, leeres versprechen. Wie sagt man in deutch klugs…….. ### 1/5 — YOUR DATA IS NOT SAVED LOCALLY *2026-02-13, version 3.5.1* I LOST ALL MY SEMESTER NOTES BECAUSE MY MAC REBOOTEOD AND MUSE SAVED NOTHING!!! DO. NOT USE THIS APP ### 1/5 — Too expensive *2026-01-08, version 3.5* Absurdly expensive subscription price for an app that has so many cheap or free alternatives. Their website show this app has been updated only 3 times in the past two years. I’m not spending $10 a month, or $70 a year for the devs to do almost nothing. ### 1/5 — Unzugänglich und keine Testmöglichkeit *2025-12-21, version 3.5* Die Idee des Programms spricht mich sehr an und ist eigentlich genau was ich suche. Ich konnte mir die Logik der Bedienung nicht erarbeiten. Die Hilfe Funktion ist verwirrend. Wenn ich Hilfe über ein Bord brauche, dass ich nicht bedienen kann, hilft es mir nicht wenn ich das Bord bedienen können muss, um Hilfe zu bekommen . Schon nach 5 Minuten Testen erreicht man das Limit von 100 Karten und kann nicht mehr weiter probieren und muss ein Abo abschließen. Der Support reagiert sehr träge. Schade. ### 1/5 — iphone app is not usable without ipad or mac version *2025-01-14, version 3.3.5* Maybe actually mention on the appstore that the iphone version is not usable on its own. Nothing on the appstore page mentions that. ### 1/5 — Buggy, still needs polish *2024-12-16* I had great hopes for it but after duplication, no undo, and disappearing text and clunky UI, minimalism is going against intuitiveness. ### 1/5 — not really good *2024-12-09, version 3.3.4* it got hang ### 1/5 — DON'T USE *2024-12-04, version 3.3.4* Deleted my mind map, which i had saved and duplicated. Spent hours on it, delted it with no trace. Awful, don't use! ### 1/5 — Extremely basic on iPhone *2024-07-26, version 3.2.21* Cannot even edit or delete existing entry. The subscription pricing is also out of hand. These companies along with Apple are artificially creating inflation ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My favourite thinking app *2026-07-07, version 4.0.2* My favourite thinking app ### 5/5 — A way to keep it together while trying to get it together. *2026-06-02, version 3.5.2* It has taken me several decades to be able to try to organize my mind well enough to make evident dreams. This app is the Border Collie for the creative stock in my mind. It keeps me Mooooving! ### 5/5 — 비전보드 만들기 너무 좋아요 *2026-04-06, version 3.5.2* 감사합니다 ### 5/5 — Best of all *2026-02-09* I was so desperate to find such an app that I decided to build one for myself. But you guys built it for me, and you built it better than what I imagined. Thanks a lot. Just one request, add a feature for cloud storage. ### 5/5 — I love Muse eiei *2025-11-18, version 3.4.7* ดีมากๆ เป็นแอปที่อิสระมาก แปะอะไรตามใจได้หมดเลย ### 5/5 — MISSING THINGS AND FEW BUGS ON MACBOOK M1 *2025-11-11* CAN U PLEASE ADD CAHNGE OF TEXT -LIKE HEADING,SUBHEADING,ADD COLUMNS SO WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE LIKE IN OTHER NOTE APPS!!!!! APART FROM THIS WHATEVER PDF WE UPLOAD WE CANT COPY THE TEXT !!! KINDLY ADD THAT FEATURE ALSO!!! ALSO WHAT BUG I FACED ! WHENEVER I DRAW SOMETHING FROM MY IPAD WHEN I ZOOM IN OR OUT IT DISAPPEARS FOR A WHILE ALSO TO ADD RESIZE FEATURE… WHENEVER LONG TEXT COMES AND I CLICK WITH MOUSE I SUDDENLY SHOWS ME LAST TEXT PARAGRAPHY AND NOT THE UPPER ONE WHERE I CLICKED !! ITS IRRITATING …HAPPENS EVERYTIME!! AND ALSO IM MEDICAL STUDENT .PLEASE LOWER THE PRICE !! I LIKE THIS APP!!! ### 5/5 — Organize ideas and information - try this app! *2025-09-01, version 3.4.7* This app is easy to use to take your information and organize it. Sort of fun to use, but has lots of great features too. ### 5/5 — Lieblings-App *2025-07-23, version 3.4.4* Muse nutze ich mittlerweile schon lange. Muse ist in der Kombination von iPad, Mac und iPhone besonders praktisch, wobei es auch auf dem iPad allein genutzt werden kann. Die iPhone-App dient dem Sammeln von Inhalten, auf dem Mac fehlt lediglich die Möglichkeit, handschriftlich zu notieren, aber man kann dafür dort besser organisieren. Auf dem iPad bietet Muse verschachtelte Boards, die beliebige Inhalte haben können. Ich nutze die App für meinen Unterricht in Musiktheorie und packe in die Boards Texte, Audios, Videos, Bilder, die ich beliebig anordnen kann. PDFs kann man direkt in Muse super präsentieren. Die Oberfläche ist bewusst minimalistisch, das ist ein ästhetischer Traum! Nicht einmal Milanote ist so schön und flexibel (ist auch nur einigermaßen zum Präsentieren geeignet. Der Support ist übrigens großartig (danke, Adam!). Ich würde gerne noch mehr Sterne geben, aber das Maximum muss reichen. ### 5/5 — So simple, yet so useful *2025-06-26* Nothing crazy, no big formatting or big style features- just full on productivity, honestly helps me take my focus off the style of the script I wrote a day ago ;-; ### 5/5 — Indispensable App - incredibly well designed *2025-06-23, version 3.4.4* I use it every day for brainstorming, planning, deep thinking, and organizing the chaos of creativity. I use this app professionally and personally. Love it on the iPad, love it on the Mac, and am excited for the development path the developer has and is taking with this powerful, elegant, and incredibly useful app. Huge fan since version 1. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*