Comparison

IdeaPad vs Brainstorm!

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

Brainstorm!

Features
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AI & SCAMPER method facilitator for brainstorming sessions. Write your brainstorming topic and answer the AI-generated questions.

Screenshots

IdeaPad4 screens
Brainstorm!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brainstorm! at every 3 days against IdeaPad's every 4 weeks. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IdeaPad ships an update every 4 weeks, Brainstorm! every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
IdeaPad versus Brainstorm!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeaPadBrainstorm!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.211.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThree Green Wedgesmaxim oulitzky

In-app purchases

None

IdeaPad

No in-app purchases

None

Brainstorm!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IdeaPad free?
IdeaPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brainstorm! free?
Brainstorm! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IdeaPad or Brainstorm! have ads?
Neither IdeaPad nor Brainstorm! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IdeaPad or Brainstorm!?
IdeaPad ships an update every 4 weeks, and Brainstorm! every 3 days. Most recently, IdeaPad was updated on September 10, 2026 and Brainstorm! on September 20, 2026.

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