Nuclino vs Rippin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nuclino
This app acts as a team's collective knowledge base, enabling real-time collaborative document creation and organization. It offers various visual views to explore information and supports file uploads for comprehensive team documentation.
- Real-time collaborative documents
- Wiki-like knowledge organization
- List, board, and graph views
- Quick note and detailed documentation
- File uploads and downloads
- Team commenting and interaction
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Nuclino serves as your team's collective brain – stay connected to it while you’re on the go! Nuclino allows you to create real-time collaborative documents and connect them instantly like a wiki. The list, board, and graph views let you explore and organize your knowledge visually. It's perfect for anything, from quick notes to detailed documentation. Use Nuclino to: • Create, edit, and share notes and documents • Collaborate with your team in real time to produce great content • Browse your team's knowledge base and quickly find the information you need • Stay up to date with your team's work and check recently edited documents • Comment on items and interact with your team • Upload and download images, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other files Learn more at: https://www.nuclino.com
Rippin
Capture thoughts instantly with a blank page and keyboard ready. Swipe left to turn them into urgent tasks with alarms, or swipe right to save them as notes. Organize effortlessly with colorful folders and smart lists, all synced privately via iCloud.
- Instant thought capture
- Swipe to task or note
- Urgent task alarms
- Folder organization
- Smart lists
- iCloud sync
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Open Rippin and a blank page is waiting, keyboard up. Write the thought that just arrived. Then: — Swipe left and it becomes a task, with a reminder when you choose. Turn on Urgent for an alarm that rings until you stop it. — Swipe right and it's kept as a note, ready whenever you are. Rather not swipe? Tap Task or Note instead. ORGANIZED WITHOUT TRYING File notes and tasks into folders in bright colors and patterns. Smart lists gather what's due today, what's overdue and what you've flagged. Drag a note onto a folder to file it, or out into Files and other apps. PREFER APPLE REMINDERS? Send your tasks there instead, and add them with Siri. MAKE IT YOURS Pick a desk color, or keep it plain white. Choose a typeface, and write on paper or glass. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything syncs across your devices through your own iCloud account, never our servers. No account to create, no analytics, no ads. BUILT FOR The mind that fills up fast. ADHD, anxiety, the 3 a.m. brain. Anyone who needs to catch a thought and decide, in one motion, where it belongs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rippin at 5.0 against Nuclino's 4.3. Rippin also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 14 months). Nuclino's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Rippin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nuclino has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Nuclino's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rippin's.
Nuclino ships an update every 14 months, Rippin every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nuclino | Rippin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nuclino GmbH | Idessa LLC |
Customer experience
Nuclino
Rippin
In-app purchases
Nuclino
No in-app purchases
Rippin
No in-app purchases









