Comparison

Glean Work vs Later? Brain Dump Notes

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

Head to head
About

Glean Work

This AI-powered assistant helps you manage work tasks, find information, and automate workflows across your company's connected applications. It provides personalized support for planning your day, running meetings, and staying updated on company and industry news.

Highlights
  • AI-powered work assistant
  • Personalized daily planning
  • Meeting preparation and summaries
  • Company and industry news updates
  • AI agent creation for workflows
  • Connects with 100+ workplace apps
Features
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Get AI for work- wherever work takes you. Get the latest project updates, prepare for meetings, find experts, and keep up with company and industry news with Glean’s assistant-first mobile experience. Stay on top of all your work, from one application. Work with an expert by your side: Enterprise assistant that is personalized to you, helping you plan your day, run meetings, find information, draft and summarize content, and more. Know what your company knows instantly: Bring enterprise and world knowledge to every decision you make- just simply ask the Glean Assistant. Automate your work with AI agents: Everyone can create agents using natural language. Turn any idea into an AI-powered workflow. — Glean connects with 100+ popular workplace apps like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Salesforce and more. Use this app if you have an account created by your company admin.

About

Later? Brain Dump Notes

Features
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Every other brain dump app keeps your thoughts. This one deletes them. If you have ADHD, you already know the failure mode. You dump everything out of your head into an app — and now the app is the problem. A hundred half-thoughts you will never read, sitting there, quietly accusing you. So you abandon it and start a new one. Later? is built the opposite way. Thoughts come in, get acted on, and leave. In 14 days anything you didn't act on deletes itself. Automatically. Without asking you. If it mattered, you'd have done it. That is the entire design. SPEAK IT IN THREE SECONDS Tap the mic, say the thought, done. From the lock screen widget it's one tap. No title, no folder, no tag, no project, no due date. There is nothing to set up and nothing to maintain, because there is nothing to maintain. IT ALREADY KNOWS WHAT THE THOUGHT IS FOR Later? reads each thought on-device and points it at the right place: • Something to look up → your search engine • A place someone mentioned → Apple Maps • Something to buy → Google Shopping or Amazon • A show or film → YouTube • Someone to email → Mail, composed • Just a thought to get out of your head → held, no action needed One tap fires it. One tap clears it. That's the loop. THE LIST CANNOT GROW This is not a notes app and it is not a task manager. Nothing accumulates. Items auto-purge after 14 days, and the queue you open tomorrow is shorter than the one you closed today. No weekly review. No inbox to process. No backlog to feel bad about. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE Voice transcription runs entirely on-device with Apple's Speech framework. No analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs — none at all. No account, no sign-in, no server. It works fully offline, forever, because there is nowhere for your thoughts to go. WIDGETS Home screen widget shows your oldest thought and clears it without opening the app. Lock screen widget opens the mic in one tap. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK — NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION Capture, clearing, plain thoughts, widgets and weekly stats are free forever, with 5 smart actions a day. Later? Plus is a single $3.99 purchase, once, that unlocks: • Unlimited smart actions • Purge control — 7, 14 or 30 days • More destinations — DuckDuckGo, Bing, Amazon • All-time stats and your most-used action Pay once. No subscription, ever. Later? is not a treatment and makes no medical claims. It is a capture tool built for people whose working memory drops things. From Tidy Apps — also makers of Had it?, the ownership memory tracker.

Screenshots

Glean Work3 screens
Later? Brain Dump Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glean Work at none against Later? Brain Dump Notes's 1. Later? Brain Dump Notes's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Later? Brain Dump Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glean Work asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glean Work ships an update every 5 weeks, Later? Brain Dump Notes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Glean Work versus Later? Brain Dump Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlean WorkLater? Brain Dump Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (69 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings69 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlean WorkSneha Ramakrishna

In-app purchases

None

Glean Work

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Later? Brain Dump Notes

One-time1
  • Later? Plus$3.99

Questions

Is Glean Work free?
Glean Work is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Later? Brain Dump Notes free?
Later? Brain Dump Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glean Work or Later? Brain Dump Notes have ads?
Neither Glean Work nor Later? Brain Dump Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glean Work or Later? Brain Dump Notes?
Glean Work ships an update every 5 weeks, and Later? Brain Dump Notes fortnightly. Most recently, Glean Work was updated on October 21, 2026 and Later? Brain Dump Notes on October 16, 2026.

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