Comparison

IdeaPad vs Brainstorming

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

Head to head
About

IdeaPad

This app helps you develop your idea generation skills by encouraging daily practice. It provides a simple interface to record your thoughts without judgment, fostering creativity and problem-solving abilities. You can export your ideas to develop them further outside the app.

Highlights
  • Daily idea generation practice
  • Write or speak ideas
  • Save and track ideas
  • Inspiration prompts for topics
  • Export ideas via email
  • No editing or deleting past ideas
Features
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To have good ideas, have many. Ideas are the currency of life. IdeaPad helps you exercise your idea muscle to strengthen it. You must stop censoring your own ideas in order to get used to having them, noticing them, and developing them. Practice daily by writing down 10 ideas. Or any number really. Hold yourself to a daily practice to improve your ability to come up with ideas and solve problems. IdeaPad is very simple: write or speak your idea. Save it. Repeat. The main purpose of IdeaPad is to practice expressing them, not to make sure they are all great, not to develop them into something bigger, not to judge them. All of these steps come later. Because of this, IdeaPad doesn’t allow you to edit past ideas. You can’t delete them (unless you delete the app). You can only add to them. Get used to producing ideas... and producing lots of them. What to do if you can’t come up with 10 ideas? Come up with 20! Give yourself less time to write them to make sure your inner censor doesn’t stand a chance. Use our inspirations to set a topic for your idea-generating session. Think you are onto something really great? We are not here to steal it. We never upload your ideas anywhere. If you want, you can export all your ideas by sending them to yourself via email. Then do with them what you want: start that new project, build a successful business, do something amazing, have fun! Happy ideating!

About

Brainstorming

This app helps you explore and develop ideas through interactive word clouds and suggestions. You can add various media like images, links, and voice memos to enrich your concepts. It's designed to streamline creative processes for projects, naming, and investigations.

Highlights
  • Interactive idea exploration
  • Thematic word cloud generation
  • AI-powered suggestions
  • Multimedia content integration
  • Project sharing
  • Export as image, video, or PDF
Features
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Unleash your creativity with Brainstorming, an intuitive platform where ideas come alive through interactive exploration. Automatically generate thematic clouds from your initial subjects and receive relevant suggestions tailored to your projects, just like magic. Dive deep into word relationships and concepts, adding images, sketches, voice memos, and web links. Explore cultural references from movies to Wikipedia articles. With a free account, create and share your Brainstormings with your friends and colleagues, and explore our community's public Brainstormings for fresh ideas. Streamline your creative process. Catchphrases, names, themes, or conducting investigations, Brainstorming simplifies it all. Subscribe to Brainstorming Premium for 1,99$/month to enjoy : • Unlimited Brainstorming projects • Unlimited number of levels in your Brainstorming projects • Adding artificial intelligence powered suggestions at all times, images and art references • Export and share your Brainstorming projects as images, videos or PDF. These prices apply to United States residents. Prices may vary in other countries respecting your local currency exchange rate. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the term, unless auto-renewables subscriptions are disabled, your subscription will automatically renew in your iTunes account. You will be charged for the regular price of your subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings at any time, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of any term. Find more informations about the confidentiality policy of Brainstorming on https://brainstormi.ng/policy To read our Terms of Use, visit https://brainstormi.ng/terms

Screenshots

IdeaPad4 screens
Brainstorming4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IdeaPad at none against Brainstorming's 2. IdeaPad also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (50% vs 26%). Brainstorming's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (71 vs 12). On price, 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. Brainstorming sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. IdeaPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IdeaPad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainstorming has 71 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of IdeaPad's written reviews are positive against 26% of Brainstorming's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IdeaPad ships an update every 4 weeks, Brainstorming every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
IdeaPad versus Brainstorming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeaPadBrainstorming
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (12 ratings) — better4.1 (71 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better26.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1271 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.2 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThree Green WedgesGuillaume Cendre

Customer experience

IdeaPad

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Brainstorming

All ratings71 ratings
Positive74.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative23.9%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral13.0%
Negative60.9%

In-app purchases

None

IdeaPad

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Brainstorming

Subscriptions2
  • Brainstorming Premium$1.991 Month
  • Brainstorming Platinum$3.991 Month

Questions

Is IdeaPad free?
IdeaPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brainstorming free?
Brainstorming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IdeaPad or Brainstorming?
IdeaPad is rated higher. IdeaPad averages 4.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Brainstorming averages 4.1 from 71 ratings.
Do IdeaPad or Brainstorming have ads?
Neither IdeaPad nor Brainstorming shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IdeaPad or Brainstorming?
IdeaPad ships an update every 4 weeks, and Brainstorming every 9 days. Most recently, IdeaPad was updated on September 10, 2026 and Brainstorming on September 19, 2026.

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