Danger Notes vs Fortelling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Danger Notes
This writing tool helps overcome writer's block by requiring continuous typing to save progress. If you stop, your work is lost. It's designed to encourage a steady flow of words for essays, creative writing, and more.
- Continuous typing to save progress
- Fights writer's block
- Encourages writing flow
- Adjustable timer
- Supports various writing projects
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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.
Fortelling
This app helps novelists plot and write their books by organizing story elements like characters, locations, and items. It offers tools for world-building, real-time collaboration, and writing statistics, along with weekly challenges to inspire creativity.
- Advanced plotting tools
- World-building for fictional universes
- Story element organization
- Real-time collaboration
- In-app novel writing
- Writing statistics
- Weekly writing challenges
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Novelist, are you ready to start writing your next amazing novel? Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book. Plotting Tools Our advanced plotting tools allow you to organize your book and guide you in writing the best version of your story. World-building Tools Create characters, languages, species & items. Keep everything consistent while writing and plotting. Detailed Plotting Create sublocations and document your unique universe. Remove the overwhelm while plotting your book. Create Drafts for your Novel Keeping your story safe is one of Fortelling's top priorities. You can create multiple draft versions of your book chapters. Create an Overview Link all your story elements together to create one giant board with related items. Describe their relations and keep your plotting elements organized. Write your Novel Make the dream of holding your story as a real book a reality. You can even write your novel within Fortelling. Use our writing statistics and version history to stay in control. Collaborate Working together on a story has never been easier. Through our real-time collaboration feature, you can keep the flow going and plot something amazing together. Weekly Writing Challenges Every Friday, we launch a fresh writing prompt to challenge your imagination. Protect your Book and Story. You retain full ownership of your novel. Create your book securely; data will never be shared with 3rd parties.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Danger Notes at 4.8 against Fortelling's 4.5. Danger Notes also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 73%). Fortelling's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Danger Notes sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Fortelling sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.39 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Danger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.3K and 1K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Danger Notes's written reviews are positive against 73% of Fortelling's.
Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, Fortelling every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Danger Notes | Fortelling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | 4.5 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better | 72.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 1K |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Villegas Ventures LLC | AJP Digital Tools B.V. |
Customer experience
Danger Notes
Fortelling
User reviews
Danger Notes
From 2.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Motivates writing
- 👍 Helps with writer's block
- 🚀 Boosts creativity
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Encourages writing without overthinking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Accidental deletion of work
- 🔍 Inability to pause or resume writing sessions
- 💡 Lack of formatting options (bold, italics, etc.)
- 🐛 Overlapping text when reaching page limit
- 💡 Inability to set word count goal instead of time
Fortelling
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing tools
- 🚀 Interesting prompts
- 👍 Helpful for planning stories
- 👍 Detailed character and world-building
- 👍 Organized and easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Unresponsive save feature
- 🐛 Difficulty deleting or rearranging content
- 🔒 Concerns about intellectual property rights
- 💰 Paid features for desktop version
Bugs and 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
Fortelling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Blank screen when trying to delete characters
- Inability to rearrange timeline events
- Inconsistent behavior when adding images
- Disappearing projects and lost progress
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to import/export data
- More customization options
- Better organization and navigation
- Offline mode or autosave functionality
- Collaborative features and social sharing
In-app purchases
Danger Notes
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$0.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$1.99
- 1 Rewind$1.99
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- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$2.99
- 3 Rewinds$2.99
- 5 Rewinds$3.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$3.99
- Buy Me Coffee$4.99
Fortelling
- Fortelling Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$7.391 Month
- Fortelling Pro - Monthly$7.491 Month
- Fortelling Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$7.491 Month
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- Fortelling Pro - Annually3 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Fortelling Pro - Annually$74.991 Year
- Fortelling Pro - Annually7 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Fortelling Pro Lifetime$199.99








