JotNotes vs Thoughts & Ideas List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JotNotes
Capture notes, ideas, and goals effortlessly with this streamlined application. Organize your thoughts using color-coded boards for easy retrieval in any aspect of your life.
- Clutter-free interface
- Organized notes
- Color-coded boards
- Easy to find notes
- Capture ideas and goals
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JotNotes is a simple notepad for everyday notes, ideas, and things to remember. Organize your notes by topic and find them with search. WRITE NOTES Capture a thought, a meeting note, or a shopping list. Your edits are saved automatically. ORGANIZE BY TOPIC Group notes into boards for work, study, projects, or personal use. Choose a color and add an optional description for each board. USE HOME SCREEN WIDGETS View recent notes or open a selected board directly from your Home Screen. FIND AND SHARE Search note text, board names, and descriptions. Share a note with other apps. SYNC WITH ICLOUD Keep your notes and boards in sync across iPhone and iPad.
Thoughts & Ideas List
Capture, organize, and sync your thoughts and ideas across devices. Utilize tags, folders, and notes for detailed organization. Secure your ideas with biometric authentication and unlock advanced features with a Pro subscription.
- Capture and organize ideas
- Tagging for quick retrieval
- Folder organization
- Add detailed notes
- iCloud syncing
- Biometric authentication
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With IdeaLog, you can easily capture and organize all of your ideas in one place. Add tags to quickly find related ideas, create folders to keep things organized, and add notes to elaborate on your ideas. Plus, all of your ideas are synced through iCloud, so you can access them from anywhere. For added security, IdeaLog offers biometric authentication. Simply enable this feature and use your fingerprint or facial recognition to access your ideas. Upgrade to IdeaLog Pro for even more features, including unlimited tags, unlimited ideas, folders, and more. Prices start at just $2.99 per month, with a 3-day trial available. You can also choose an annual subscription for $17.99 or a lifetime subscription for $34.99. All prices noted above are in USD. Contact: https://innovativedigitaltechnologies.software/IdeaLog Privacy Policy: https://innovativedigitaltechnologies.software/IdeaLog/privacypolicy Terms & Conditions: https://innovativedigitaltechnologies.software/IdeaLog/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: JotNotes at every 3 days against Thoughts & Ideas List's every 2 months. Thoughts & Ideas List's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, ratings volume, 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. JotNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Thoughts & Ideas List sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Thoughts & Ideas List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively.
JotNotes ships an update every 3 days, Thoughts & Ideas List every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | JotNotes | Thoughts & Ideas List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Igor Rusinov | INNOVATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
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JotNotes
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In-app purchases
JotNotes
- Unlock Full App$0.99
Thoughts & Ideas List
- IdeaLog Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- IdeaLog Yearly$17.991 Year
- IdeaLog Lifetime$34.99
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