Comparison

mymind vs Flex Widgets

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

Head to head
About

mymind

This app acts as a private digital space to store and organize everything you care about, from notes and images to articles and bookmarks. It offers a clutter-free experience without algorithms or social feeds, allowing you to effortlessly save and recall information.

Highlights
  • Save images, notes, articles, and bookmarks
  • Effortless saving via share sheet
  • Automatic organization and visualization
  • Private and ad-free experience
  • No algorithms or social feeds
Features
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mymind isn't another productivity app. It's a quiet, private garden for the things you care most about. With just a single tap you can save images, notes, articles, products, text highlights, recipes, movies or other bookmarks to your mind. It works effortlessly via the share sheet. One place for everything you care about. No need to file it, label or even tag it. It's all magically organized and visualized for you. Some call mymind it a treasure trove of ideas, inspiration & references. No algorithms selling your data, no social feeds fighting for your attention. It's just you and your mind, extended into a clean, private and almost magical space that feels less like software and more like memory itself. —— https://mymind.com/privacypolicy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Flex Widgets

Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.

Highlights
  • Build custom widgets
  • Add text, images, and health data
  • Place icons, emojis, and shapes
  • Create countdowns and calendars
  • Design digital and analog clocks
  • Share and import widget designs
  • Create custom widget themes
Features
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)

Screenshots

mymind4 screens
Flex Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: mymind at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. mymind also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (60% vs 39%). Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

mymind is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. mymind sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mymind holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 410 and 98 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of mymind's written reviews are positive against 39% of Flex Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mymind ships an update every 3 weeks, Flex Widgets every 11 days. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
mymind versus Flex Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermymindFlex Widgets
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (410 ratings) — better3.7 (98 ratings)
Positive reviews59.9% of reviews — better38.7% of reviews
Number of ratings410 — better98
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developermymind, Inc.Yannik Schrade

Customer experience

mymind

All ratings410 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive59.9%
Neutral18.2%
Negative22.0%

Flex Widgets

All ratings98 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative27.6%
Written reviews124 reviews
Positive38.7%
Neutral13.7%
Negative47.6%

Bugs and requests

mymind

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and data loss
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Buggy UI elements and navigation
  • Inconsistent behavior across platforms

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode
  • Ability to edit and rearrange saved items
  • Integration with more third-party services
  • Password/biometric protection
  • Improved sharing and collaboration features

Flex Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

mymind

Subscriptions5
  • The Bookmarker$4.991 Month
  • Student$7.991 Month
  • Mastermind$12.991 Month
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  • Student of Life Yearly$79.001 Year
  • Mastermind Yearly$129.001 Year
None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mymind free?
mymind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, mymind or Flex Widgets?
mymind is rated higher. mymind averages 4.0 out of 5 from 410 ratings, while Flex Widgets averages 3.7 from 98 ratings.
Do mymind or Flex Widgets have ads?
Neither mymind nor Flex Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mymind or Flex Widgets?
mymind ships an update every 3 weeks, and Flex Widgets every 11 days. Most recently, mymind was updated on September 25, 2026 and Flex Widgets on September 25, 2026.

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