Comparison

Thinkdrop vs Thrive

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

Head to head
About

Thinkdrop

Capture fleeting ideas, thoughts, and reminders quickly and privately. Record, write, or snap your thoughts, then securely store them with end-to-end encryption. Gain insights into your thinking patterns and reduce mental clutter.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts via writing, voice, or image
  • End-to-end encryption for privacy
  • Organize thoughts into threads
  • Speech recognition for audio notes
  • Pin important thoughts
  • Sentiment analysis for insights
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 encrypts and securely stores your thoughts locally 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. - Proven standard high quality encryption standards (E2EE) on all your thoughts - 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- Playback for all your recorded audio-based thoughts - Pin important thoughts for quick access - Automatically delete out-of-date thoughts the next time you access the ThinkPad - Face or Touch ID to prevent unauthorized access by anyone other than yourself - Beautiful design - Search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/

About

Thrive

Break down ambitious goals into manageable steps and organize your ideas. Visualize the impact of decisions to make them less daunting. Track your progress with automatic stats and widgets.

Highlights
  • Break down ambitious goals
  • Organize ideas and thoughts
  • Visualize decision impacts
  • Automatic progress stats
  • Widgets for staying on track
  • Note-taking functionality
Features
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Universal purchase so you also get the macOS version __ You know how we all come up with those kinds of goals and ideas that get us really excited but then for some reason we never really do anything about them? That's about to change with Thrive, a new kind of productivity app that will tackle some of the main problems: • tackle your most ambitious goals Make your goals seem less monumental and vague by thinking of the steps required to achieve them and working on one at a time. • save and organise ideas Save all your big ideas and quick thoughts throughout the day. • visualise difficult decisions Make big decisions more manageable by visualising the impact of each option on the parts of your life you care most about. You can also use it to take notes, get automatic stats on your progress, stay on top of things with widgets and more. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Thinkdrop4 screens
Thrive4 screens

Verdict

The call

Thinkdrop and Thrive both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of Thrive's written reviews are positive against 31% of Thinkdrop's. Thrive also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Thinkdrop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Thrive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Thinkdrop against 4.3 for Thrive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 42 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 31% of Thinkdrop's written reviews are positive against 57% of Thrive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thinkdrop ships an update every 3 weeks, Thrive every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Thinkdrop versus Thrive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinkdropThrive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (35 ratings) — better4.3 (42 ratings)
Positive reviews31.3% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3542 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHo Ye LamShlag

Customer experience

Thinkdrop

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

Thrive

All ratings42 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Thinkdrop

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

Thrive

Subscriptions2
  • Thrive Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Thrive Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Thinkdrop free?
Thinkdrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thrive free?
Thrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Thinkdrop or Thrive?
Thinkdrop is rated higher. Thinkdrop averages 4.3 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Thrive averages 4.3 from 42 ratings.
Do Thinkdrop or Thrive have ads?
Neither Thinkdrop nor Thrive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thinkdrop or Thrive?
Thinkdrop ships an update every 3 weeks, and Thrive every 9 days. Most recently, Thinkdrop was updated on October 24, 2026 and Thrive on October 24, 2026.

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