Comparison

Danger Notes vs Fortelling

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Continuous typing to save progress
  • Fights writer's block
  • Encourages writing flow
  • Adjustable timer
  • Supports various writing projects
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Advanced plotting tools
  • World-building for fictional universes
  • Story element organization
  • Real-time collaboration
  • In-app novel writing
  • Writing statistics
  • Weekly writing challenges
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Danger Notes4 screens
Fortelling4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, Fortelling every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Danger Notes versus Fortelling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDanger NotesFortelling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better4.5 (1K ratings)
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews — better72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3K — better1K
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB117 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVillegas Ventures LLCAJP Digital Tools B.V.

Customer experience

Danger Notes

All ratings2,295 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive83.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative8.5%

Fortelling

All ratings1,049 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews425 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral8.5%
Negative18.8%

User reviews

Danger Notes

From 2.3K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

8 purchases

Danger Notes

One-time8
  • 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
7 purchases

Fortelling

Subscriptions6
  • 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
One-time1
  • Fortelling Pro Lifetime$199.99

Questions

Is Danger Notes free?
Danger Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fortelling free?
Fortelling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Danger Notes or Fortelling?
Danger Notes is rated higher. Danger Notes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Fortelling averages 4.5 from 1K ratings.
Do Danger Notes or Fortelling have ads?
Both Danger Notes and Fortelling show ads.
Which is updated more often, Danger Notes or Fortelling?
Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, and Fortelling every 8 days. Most recently, Danger Notes was updated on November 11, 2026 and Fortelling on November 11, 2026.

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