Dasher Mobile vs Bubble Diagram Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dasher Mobile
This app offers a unique text input method where the display zooms into letters based on your pointer. It uses a language model to predict probable text, making common words easier to select. The interface is mode-free and can be trained on custom writing styles.
- Zooming interface for text entry
- Predictive language model
- Mode-free operation
- Customizable writing style training
- Efficient text selection
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Dasher is a zooming interface. You point where you want to go, and the display zooms in wherever you point. The world into which you are zooming is painted with letters, so that any point you zoom in on corresponds to a piece of text. The more you zoom in, the longer the piece of text you have written. You choose what you write by choosing where to zoom. To make the interface efficient, we use the predictions of a language model to determine how much of the world is devoted to each piece of text. Probable pieces of text are given more space, so they are quick and easy to select. Improbable pieces of text (for example, text with spelling mistakes) are given less space, so they are harder to write. The language model learns all the time: if you use a novel word once, it is easier to write next time. A big advantage of Dasher over other predictive text-entry interfaces that offer word-completions to the user is that it is mode-free: the user does not need to switch from a writing mode to an "accept-model-predictions" mode. Another advantage is that it is easy to train the model on any writing style: simply load up an example file, then write away! More information can be found here: http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/ Note that this is a port of the original Dasher for iPhone which no longer runs on iOS 11. This port has been funded by donations to the Ace Centre. To support this, ask for feature requests and help fund future development please see https://acecentre.org.uk/project/dasher-for-ios/
Bubble Diagram Maker
Create visual diagrams for planning, conceptual thinking, and organization. Easily arrange and customize elements to bring your ideas to life without complex tools. Save and share your creations privately.
- Tap & Drag Creation
- Full Customization (color, size, label)
- Unlimited Diagrams
- Save & Share
- Offline Functionality
- Ad-Free Experience
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A diagram tool that thinks in bubbles instead of straight lines. If you have ever tried to capture a messy idea inside a rigid outline, or fought a flowchart app that demanded structure before you even knew the shape of the problem, this is the calmer alternative. Bubble Diagram Maker is built for architects sketching spatial programs, designers tracing user flows, students mapping concepts, product people roughing out features, researchers organising literature, and anyone who thinks in relationships rather than rows. The philosophy is simple: let the layout follow the thought, not the other way around. No account to create, no sign-in wall, no cloud lock-in pushing your work into someone else's database, and no friction sitting between the moment of insight and the page where it lands. This is a mind mapping app that respects how messy real thinking actually looks before it becomes a finished diagram, and it treats brainstorm sessions as the loose, exploratory work they really are. Open the canvas and start dropping bubbles with labels, colours and sizes that match their weight in your head — the central idea large, supporting nodes smaller, vague hunches smaller still. Connect them with solid, dashed or weighted lines to show how concepts relate, overlap them as a Venn diagram when two ideas share territory, and drag freely until the layout feels right. Templates cover mind map, spatial program, Venn and concept map starting points so you never stare at an empty page, undo and redo work everywhere so experimentation is cheap, and finished diagrams export as PNG, PDF or SVG ready to drop into a presentation, brief, thesis or client deck. Pinch to zoom across a wall-sized canvas, lock individual bubbles when the layout is settled, group related nodes so an entire branch of the mind map moves together, and pull bubbles apart again when the structure changes. Apple Pencil support turns the iPad into a proper visual thinking surface for sketching idea maps, flow diagram drafts and concept maps by hand, with palm rejection that keeps the canvas clean. A quick-add mode lets you brainstorm at speed without leaving the keyboard, colour palettes are tuned for readability rather than decoration, and a focus mode dims everything except the bubble you are currently editing. Diagrams are organised into projects so a thesis, a renovation brief and a product roadmap stay separate without folders fighting you. Search works across every label in every diagram, so a half-remembered concept map from three months ago is one tap away. A thought map view turns a long brainstorm into a clean outline whenever you need to hand the idea to a document, and a presenter mode walks through a diagram one branch at a time when you need to explain it to a room. This diagram maker works fully offline — your data stays on this device, no analytics watching how you brainstorm, no thought map ever leaving your phone or iPad, and no servers in the loop between you and your canvas. The interface ships in 39 languages with full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and reduced-motion support, the canvas stays calm and quiet, and the whole app is intentionally free of ads, pop-ups and engagement nudges. Whether you are roughing out a floor plan, mapping the chapters of a book, planning a research project, designing a service flow or just trying to get the noise in your head onto a single page, this is a mind mapper built to disappear behind the work and let the idea take the shape it actually wants. A quiet diagram tool for visual thinking, nothing more, nothing pretending to be more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dasher Mobile at 5.0 against Bubble Diagram Maker's 3.6. Dasher Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dasher Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively.
| Parameter | Dasher Mobile | Bubble Diagram Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ace Centre | Bahattin Duran |
Customer experience
Dasher Mobile
Bubble Diagram Maker
In-app purchases
Dasher Mobile
No in-app purchases
Bubble Diagram Maker
No in-app purchases
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