Story Plotter vs BoardSnap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Story Plotter
This app helps you craft compelling stories for novels, comics, movies, and more. It offers tools for organizing ideas, developing characters and their relationships, and structuring plot points. AI-powered brainstorming and time-series visualization assist in overcoming writer's block.
- Idea Note
- Plot Note
- Plot creation function
- AI Brainstorming
- Character Correlation & Family Tree
- Time series with World Setting
- Theme Setting
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This is strong plot creation app that support - Novel - Manga - Movie - Drama - Secondary creation - TRPG Scenario - Script If you are worried about the following, we will suggest to use this App. - I don't know what the plot looks like - I can't organize the flow of the story and get confused - I want to create attractive characters, want to organize relationships - Lots of incidents, but unmanageable. This app is fully packed with the essences of more than 15 script reference books, including "Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting" and “save the cat”, called the scripture Bible. This app will lead you to an interesting screenplay !!! ** Features ** This app have - Idea Note - Plot Note and - Plot creation function So, You can easily create plot using stored idea!! In addition, functions also available to support you. - Brainstorming with AI - Correlation & Family Tree with Character setting - Time series with World Setting - Theme Setting By deepening these, you can escape from stack writing plot ** Postscript ** Unless you have permission, this App does not send any creative data to the internet, so you can use it safe. ** SubScribe ** For $4/month, we offer automatic data synchronization across multiple devices. All features other than automatic data synchronization will continue to be available free of charge. ** Terms and Conditions ** Please see this link for the Terms and Conditions By installing the application, you agree to the Terms and Conditions. Terms and Conditions : https://storyplotter.net/term/pc/en.html Privacy Policy : https://storyplotter.net/privacypolicy/pc/en.html
BoardSnap
Capture whiteboard content and transform it into actionable notes, summaries, and conversational AI. Organize your notes by project and maintain context across all your captured boards. Works offline and syncs when you're back online.
- Whiteboard capture and digitization
- AI-powered summarization
- Action item extraction
- Project-based organization
- Brand-aware AI summaries
- Context-aware chat
- Offline capture
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BoardSnap turns any whiteboard into something you can actually use. Snap a board with your iPhone. In ten seconds you get clean notes, action items with owners, and a project you can chat with — across every board you've ever captured. Lecture, conference room, coffee-shop napkin: same five-second loop. Built for: • Students who walk out of a lecture with the whiteboard locked in their pocket, then quiz themselves before the exam. • Professionals who leave every meeting with action items already assigned, not a phone full of photos they'll never open again. • Entrepreneurs and builders who think on whiteboards and want every spec, every sketch, every coffee-shop conversation to feed the same AI brain. Four things BoardSnap does that nothing else does: PROJECTS — every board lives in a project. A project is a class, a client, a product, a quarter. Switch projects, switch contexts; nothing leaks. BRAND-AWARE AI — give your project a website URL and BoardSnap reads it. Summaries and action items come back in your company's voice, your professor's framing, your product's terminology. Generic AI chat can't do this. CHAT THAT REMEMBERS — pin the notes that matter. Every future question across that project starts with that context, free. No more re-explaining your situation to a fresh chat thread. OFFLINE FIRST — basement lecture hall, plane mode, dead WiFi. Snap anyway. BoardSnap queues every capture and flushes the moment you're back online. Zero lost boards. How it works: 1. Tap snap. Native iPhone capture finds edges, straightens the board. 2. AI reads the entire board — handwriting, diagrams, sticky notes, all of it. 3. You get back: a 1-paragraph summary, a structured outline, action items with owners and dates, and a tap-to-quiz mode for any board. 4. Chat across every board in the project. Pin the takeaways. Walk away. Built native for iPhone. VisionKit edge detection. No Android, no web, no Office plugin — focused. Free to try with 5 boards. Pro at $9.99/month or $69.99/year unlocks unlimited boards, projects, chat, and quiz. Privacy: your boards live in your iCloud account. No training on your data. No ads, ever. Made in Detroit by DotcomJack.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BoardSnap at 5.0 against Story Plotter's 4.4. BoardSnap also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Story Plotter's advantage is ratings volume (195 vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Story Plotter sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and BoardSnap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BoardSnap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Story Plotter has 195 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Story Plotter's written reviews are positive against 100% of BoardSnap's.
Story Plotter ships an update every 2 weeks, BoardSnap fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Story Plotter | BoardSnap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (195 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 195 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hajime Hata | Jack Brandt |
Customer experience
Story Plotter
BoardSnap
Bugs and requests
Story Plotter
Reported bugs
4 issues- Deleting previous work without warning
- Crashing when trying to edit thumbnails or move characters
- Syncing and data transfer issues between devices
- Bluetooth keyboard compatibility problems
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to pull photos from external sources
- Implement a collaborative feature for co-writing
- Add more customization options for character profiles
- Improve the character relationship diagram functionality
- Expand timeline options beyond just years/months/days
BoardSnap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Story Plotter
- Data Sync(half price)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Device Synchronize7 Days trial$3.491 Month
- Number of Image Generations$0.49
- Releasing AI Limitations$2.99
BoardSnap
- BoardSnap Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- BoardSnap Pro Annual$69.991 Year
- BoardSnap Pro — Lifetime$149.00
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