Writer! vs Danger Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Writer!
This application provides a straightforward platform for writing and organizing your thoughts. It allows users to manage entries with tags and folders, search content, and export their work. Customize your writing experience with various themes and accent colors.
- Simple user interface
- Organize with tags and folders
- Search entries by content or tags
- Export entries
- Light and dark themes
- Customizable accent colors
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Features: - Simple and clean user interface - Organize your entries with tags and folders - Search your entries by content or tags - Export one or multiple entries - Light and dark themes with 8 accent colors Icons by Icons8 (https://icons8.com)
Danger Notes
This app is designed to combat writer's block by requiring continuous typing to save your work. If you stop typing, all unsaved progress is permanently deleted, encouraging a consistent writing flow.
- Continuous typing required to save
- Work deleted if typing stops
- Fights writer's block
- Encourages writing flow
- Suitable for essays, books, and lyrics
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Don’t stop typing. If you do, all your work will disappear and be gone forever. Danger Notes is the ultimate writing tool to help fight writer’s block. Whether you are writing a term paper, an essay, a book, your best-man speech, promising rap lyrics or just free writing, Danger Notes will help you fight writer’s block by forcing you to keep writing in order to save your progress from being deleted. The theory behind this wonderful writing tool, is that by pressuring you to keep writing, you will be forced to formulate an actual flow of written work instead of just staring at a blank document for 2 hours with no progress to show for. The more words you type the easier it will be to break past your writer's block and keep typing. Break writer's block with Danger Notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Danger Notes at 84% against Writer!'s 34%. Danger Notes also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 118). Writer!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Writer! sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Danger Notes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Danger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 118, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Writer!'s written reviews are positive against 84% of Danger Notes's.
Writer! ships an update every 4 weeks, Danger Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Writer! | Danger Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (118 ratings) | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.4% of reviews | 83.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 118 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Binary Kitchen, LLC | Villegas Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Writer!
Danger Notes
Bugs and requests
Writer!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Danger Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Accidental deletion of work
- Overlapping text when reaching page limit
- Glitches after updating to iOS 16
Requested features
7 requests- Add writing prompts
- Implement a pause/resume function
- Provide formatting options
- Allow setting word count goals
- Add a way to export or share written work
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- Offer a desktop version
- Implement a daily writing reminder
In-app purchases
Writer!
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Large Tip$2.99
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- Giant Tip$3.99
- Enormous Tip$4.99
- Upgrade to Pro$5.99
Danger Notes
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$0.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$1.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$2.99
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- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$3.99
- Buy Me Coffee$4.99
