Danger Notes vs Writing Room
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Writing Room
This app is a creative community for writers of all levels. It offers daily writing exercises, collaboration opportunities, and courses from top teachers to help you hone your craft and overcome writer's block. Connect with fellow writers and find inspiration for your stories.
- Daily writing exercises
- Community gatherings
- Live & on-demand courses
- Collaboration tools
- Writing prompts
- Feedback exchange
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Write daily, hone your craft, meet new collaborators, learn from the best teachers in the world, and become the writer you’ve always dreamed of in a thriving creative community you can call home. If you’re a writer — or have always wanted to be one — you’ve found your place. So many stories never make it to the page, because so many writers live their whole life with their stories stuck inside them. One of the most pervasive lies facing writers’ is that writing is an activity done in isolation. That the writer must struggle alone with their work, and only once it is perfect are they allowed to share their work. If we have learned anything from the incredible works that have come out of the greatest writing movements, partnerships, and even Hollywood writing rooms, it’s that not only does writing not have to be completed in isolation, but collaboration and exchanging feedback can increase this art’s transforming power. Join the thousands of writers who have made it a daily practice to write using prompts designed to help you overcome writer’s block, excuses, and perfectionism. Our community offers gatherings like silent writing rooms, member readings, and author-led book clubs. Expand your writing toolbox by co-creating with the greatest writing and creativity teachers in the world. Our approach focuses on participant-driven learning experiences designed to help our writers go deeper into their self-discovery and mastery. You will be writing with fresh wind in your sails and an intimate community by your side as you continue on the creative adventure you were made to journey through. By joining, you’ll instantly get access to the following: Tailored daily exercises that get you writing every day Regular community gatherings to improve your craft & share your work Live & on-demand courses taught by the best writing teachers in the world Tools & resources to guide you from the first sentence to publication New friends and collaborators to get real-world feedback ------------------------------ Terms of Use: mightynetworks.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Writing Room at none against Danger Notes's shown. Danger Notes's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 57%) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 149). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 5 one-off in-app purchases and Writing Room sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Danger Notes against 4.8 for Writing Room. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 149, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Danger Notes's written reviews are positive against 57% of Writing Room's.
Danger Notes ships an update every 10 days, Writing Room every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Danger Notes | Writing Room |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | 4.8 (149 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 149 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Villegas Ventures LLC | A WRITING ROOM INC |
Customer experience
Danger Notes
Writing Room
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
Writing Room
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
Writing Room
- Monthly Plan4 variants$49.991 Month
- Monthly Plan3 Months trial$49.991 Month
- Monthly Plan1 Month trial$49.991 Month
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- Annual Plan4 variants$499.991 Year
- Annual Plan3 Months trial$499.991 Year
- Annual Plan1 Month trial$499.991 Year
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