Comparison

Timestripe vs Thinkdrop

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

Head to head
About

Timestripe

This app offers a unique planning system with flexible time frames for daily, yearly, and lifetime goals. It provides step-by-step guides for various life areas and allows users to organize tasks, ideas, and lists with customizable templates. Users can also share their creations with the community.

Highlights
  • Flexible time frames for goals
  • Step-by-step educational programs
  • Organize tasks and ideas
  • Customizable templates
  • Community sharing
  • Dark mode support
  • Rich Text notes
Features
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Expand your planning horizons Timestripe is a unique planner with flexible time frames. Planning your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and lifetime goals allows you to think strategically, have a clear vision, and focus on things that are really important to you. We call this planning system Horizons. Achieve more with step-by-step guides Big goals require a good plan, consisting of small, measurable and clear objectives. Timestripe helps you achieve your dreams with step-by-step educational programs for all kinds of goals. Fitness and health, finance and career, relationships and awareness. Organize your life with skill Organize endless lists of tasks, ideas, plans, movies to watch, books to read, anything you want to organize into an endless number of boards. Use a wide range of templates from our community to speed up your train of thought Share your best practices with others Create your own productivity templates, favourite movie lists, or share your bucket list with the world. And other beautifully crafted experience · Dark mode support · Color labels · Rich Text notes for your goals (subgoals, links, quotes, headlines and more) · Hashtags · Link goals between boards and calendar Users love Timestripe More than 70,000 people used Timestripe to change their lives for the better iF design awards 2018 Product Hunt #4 product of the week, December 2020 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://timestripe.com/privacy/

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

Timestripe4 screens
Thinkdrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

Timestripe and Thinkdrop both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 64% of Timestripe's written reviews are positive against 31% of Thinkdrop's. Timestripe also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (125 vs 35). Thinkdrop's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timestripe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month 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

Timestripe holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 125 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Timestripe's written reviews are positive against 31% of Thinkdrop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timestripe ships an update every 6 weeks, Thinkdrop fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Timestripe versus Thinkdrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimestripeThinkdrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (125 ratings) — better4.3 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews63.9% of reviews — better31.3% of reviews
Number of ratings125 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimestripe OÜHo Ye Lam

Customer experience

Timestripe

All ratings123 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive63.9%
Neutral12.8%
Negative23.3%

Thinkdrop

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

Bugs and requests

Timestripe

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login and password recovery issues
  • Tasks not saving or disappearing
  • Repeated weekly events not working correctly
  • Dragging and sorting functionality not reliable
  • App freezing or not loading on some devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode support
  • Improved calendar sync and integration
  • Quantitative goal tracking and progress visualization
  • Customizable widgets and home screen integration
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription

Thinkdrop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Timestripe

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Pro Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
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  • Pro Annual Subscription1 Month trial$99.991 Year
2 purchases

Thinkdrop

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

Questions

Is Timestripe free?
Timestripe 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, Timestripe or Thinkdrop?
Timestripe is rated higher. Timestripe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while Thinkdrop averages 4.3 from 35 ratings.
Do Timestripe or Thinkdrop have ads?
Neither Timestripe nor Thinkdrop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timestripe or Thinkdrop?
Timestripe ships an update every 6 weeks, and Thinkdrop fortnightly. Most recently, Timestripe was updated on November 3, 2026 and Thinkdrop on November 3, 2026.

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