Mindkit vs smalltype
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindkit
This app helps you organize your life by managing tasks, tracking habits, and taking notes. It offers features for daily tracking, goal progress, and creating wish lists. Stay focused with Pomodoro timers and review your life snapshots.
- Task management with categories
- Habit tracking and review
- Pomodoro focus timer
- Mood diary and diet recording
- Expense tracking with labels
- Goal progress monitoring
- Wish lists and reminders
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MindKit is a lightweight, modular todo and note application. When we're working, studying, or enjoying our daily life, we always focus on many things: - What will I do / learn today? - How many times have you been running / exercising this month? - Am I in good mood today? - I haven't had breakfast for days? - What should I buy next time I go to the supermarket? - How many days is mom's birthday? - Where did you spend all your money this month? - What's the progress of the books you've been reading recently? - How long have you been studying today? - Pay the credit card on the 26th of each month. Keeping todos organized, tracking daily life as well as habits, presenting elegant notes, these are all things MindKit tries to do for you. # Main functions ## Action ### Tasks What do you have to do today / tomorrow / todos? Using task type, you can put different tasks in different types. Suddenly think of a recent thing to do? With "Do it later", you can store them temporarily and deal with them later. ### Habits How many times did you exercise in this month and how many nights did you stay up this week? Simply mark, review quickly, form good habits and keep in good condition. ### Focus With the help of the Pomodoro, keep yourself focused on the most important things at present. ## Daily tracking ### Mood diary How was your day? What memorable things happened? Record your mood and even write a diary. ### Diet record Did you eat healthily today? Did you overeat? How long have you not had breakfast? Record your diet, then review your recent records and pay more attention to your health. ### Bookkeeping book Bookkeeping to control expenses, support labels and custom labels, etc. ### Goals | Progress Where's the progress of the books you've been reading recently, and how many have you completed your goal? Quickly increase progress and support grouping function. ### Woman Period ### Body Weight ## Notes Some wishes, some important days, some wonderful ideas, some reminders? What do you want to buy next time you go to the supermarket? Write down your concerns, track wonderful ideas, and create simple reminders to make your note list accessible. ### Wish List Create a wish list, make a wish, and list specific implementation steps, which will eventually be realized. ### Big Moment Create commemorative moments, and remind them before important days, and support countdown days and positive days. ### Ideas Create ideas, track ideas, list their progress on a timeline, and mark whether they have been realized. ### Reminders Create reminders to remind important matters. ### Notes Create notes to record fragments in life, study and work. ## Snapshots Review your daily life recorded on MindKit and quickly review your recent life. # Other functions - Dark / light appearance, free switching. - Multiple app icons can be changed at any time. - Choose from a variety of theme colors. - iCloud data synchronization, seamless switching of multiple devices. - Password protected and supports TouchID and FaceID. - 20 + desktop widgets. # Multiple options to upgrade to MindKit Pro - Month - automatic renewal subscription - ¥ 6 / month - Year - automatic renewal subscription - ¥ 50 / year - Lifetime - one-off buyout - ¥ 128 * After confirmation of purchase or free trial period (if any), the iTunes account will be charged. * The free trial period (if any) will automatically expire after subscription. * After you subscribe, you can go to the app store account to set up management or cancel your subscription. * The subscription will be automatically renewed unless it is turned off 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. User policy: https://www.mindkit.space/docs/law/userterms Privacy agreement: https://www.mindkit.space/docs/law/privacy Website: https://www.mindkit.space If you encounter any problems or have some suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time oraclebone@163.com .
smalltype
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Short notes, many times a day, saved as plain .md files in real folders. Open the same folder on your Mac in VS Code, Vim, or any editor. Calm, minimal, and ready for iPhone Duo. smalltype is for your notes. The small ones, the quick ones, the big ones, the unpolished ones. It's a fast, quiet place to type. ## Start No tutorial, no setup screen. Tap New Note and start typing. Leave one empty and it quietly disappears, so you never end up with a pile of blank untitled notes. That's the whole app. ## Yours Every note is a real .md file, sitting right there in the Files app. You can open it, copy it, or back it up yourself, anytime. Delete one and it still goes to Recently Deleted, same as any other file: nothing's gone for good. ## Sync or Don't Keep notes in iCloud Drive to have them on every device. Or keep them On My iPhone, fully local, never leaving your device. Either way, you can switch anytime. ## Visible Markdown Markdown markers stay gently visible as you type. What you see is exactly what's in the file. A bar above the keyboard types the markers for you, with undo and redo a tap away. ## Organize Folders, search, and quick note-making, all from one screen. Nothing to set up first. Put "daily" in a folder's name and new notes inside it get today's date as their name. ## No Catch No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account, ever. Markdown notes. Yours to keep.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: smalltype at none against Mindkit's 3. smalltype also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). Mindkit's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Mindkit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. smalltype asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mindkit ships an update every 9 days, smalltype every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindkit | smalltype |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (46 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 381 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 增存 岳 | Herman Haidin |
In-app purchases
Mindkit
- Mindkit Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Mindkit Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
- Mindkit Pro Permanently$19.99
smalltype
No in-app purchases









