Comparison

Danger Notes vs Thinkdrop

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, books, or lyrics.

Highlights
  • Continuous typing required to save
  • Fights writer's block
  • Encourages writing flow
  • Adjustable timer
  • Free to use
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

Thinkdrop

Capture, organize, and secure your thoughts with this app. It offers multiple input methods, strong encryption, and tools for analysis to help reduce mental clutter and improve self-understanding.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts via writing, voice, or images
  • End-to-end encryption for privacy
  • Organize thoughts into threads
  • Speech recognition for audio notes
  • Pin important thoughts
  • Sentiment analysis for insights
  • Sync across Apple devices (Premium)
Features
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Too much on your mind? Always forgetting what you were thinking a few hours ago? All those thoughts in your head, but you can't really organize them? Well, Thinkdrop can help you with these problems. In an age where there is too much information to consume, your mind constantly replaces your thoughts due to limited space. As a result, our minds become cluttered with too many thoughts, leading to stress, anxiety, worry, pressure, confusion, and more. You need a tool that allows you to unload your thoughts. As private as your mind. As secure as your mind. A tool that clears your mind for the better. Thinkdrop is here. Thinkdrop is made to unload your thoughts quickly and privately. Have a thought, idea, compliment, annoyance, concern, accomplishment, or a general remark? Write, speak or even snap it down and unload your thoughts. Thinkdrop then stores your thoughts privately on your phone or even in your personal iCloud. Thinkdrop is as accessible to you as your own thoughts. Reduce your cluttered mind by unloading your thoughts in Thinkdrop and gain progress Thinkdrop features: - Write, snap, or speak your thoughts. - Your thoughts stay on your device and in your private iCloud, never on our servers - Expand on your original thought and create threads - Speech recognition when recording your voice to create audio-based thoughts - Import an image for your thought - Playback for all your recorded audio-based thoughts - Pin important thoughts for quick access - Automatically delete out-of-date thoughts the next time you access the ThinkPad - Face or Touch ID to prevent unauthorized access by anyone other than yourself - Beautiful design - Search function to browse all your thoughts - Statistics and insights to understand yourself better (Premium) - Know if you were positive, neutral or negative with machine learning sentiment analysis - Support for unlimited thoughts until you run out of space - Customizable notifications to remind you to clear your mind - Automatically save all captured images to your Photos app - Auto-tagging system - Location Snap to know where you added the thought - Tweet button available to automatically send the written text to your X app - Light and dark mode support - Sync your thoughts across all your Apple devices (Premium) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Danger Notes4 screens
Thinkdrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Danger Notes at 84% against Thinkdrop's 31%. Danger Notes also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 35). Thinkdrop's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Danger Notes sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Thinkdrop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Danger Notes's written reviews are positive against 31% of Thinkdrop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, Thinkdrop fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Danger Notes versus Thinkdrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDanger NotesThinkdrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better4.3 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews — better31.3% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3K — better35
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVillegas Ventures LLCHo Ye Lam

Customer experience

Danger Notes

All ratings2,294 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive83.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative8.5%

Thinkdrop

All ratings35 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral11.4%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive31.3%
Neutral31.3%
Negative37.5%

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
Show 2 more
  • Offer a desktop version
  • Implement a daily writing reminder

Thinkdrop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
2 purchases

Thinkdrop

Subscriptions2
  • Think Drop 2 Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
  • Think Drop 2 Annual Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year

Questions

Is Danger Notes free?
Danger Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thinkdrop free?
Thinkdrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Danger Notes or Thinkdrop?
Danger Notes is rated higher. Danger Notes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Thinkdrop averages 4.3 from 35 ratings.
Do Danger Notes or Thinkdrop have ads?
Danger Notes shows ads; Thinkdrop does not.
Which is updated more often, Danger Notes or Thinkdrop?
Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, and Thinkdrop fortnightly. Most recently, Danger Notes was updated on November 3, 2026 and Thinkdrop on November 3, 2026.

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