Thinkdrop vs Held
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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- Playback for all your recorded audio-based thoughts - Pin important thoughts for quick access - Automatically delete out-of-date thoughts the next time you access the ThinkPad - Face or Touch ID to prevent unauthorized access by anyone other than yourself - Beautiful design - Search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/
Held
This app helps you achieve your goals by making them public and accountable. Set deadlines, choose a witness, and receive regular check-ins and reminders to stay on track. Your progress is recorded in an honest ledger, ensuring permanent verdicts on your commitments.
- Set goals with deadlines and witnesses
- Daily or weekly check-ins
- Honest progress ledger
- Customizable reminders
- Private by design, no account needed
- JSON data export
- Stakes and renegotiation options
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Goals fail quietly. Held makes them loud. A goal doesn't exist here until it has a deadline and a witness — someone you name, who gets your commitment in writing. Held walks you through it in three steps: the goal, the timeline, the person who will hold you to it. Give it a photograph too, if you want one. Then it sends your commitment through your own Messages or Mail, and the clock starts. THE DAY MARKER Open the app and one number faces you: the day you're on, out of the days you have. No dashboards, no confetti. Just the count. CHECK-INS ON A FIXED CADENCE Daily or weekly — you pick the rhythm when you commit. On check-in days Held asks for three honest things: on track, behind, or done; one line of progress; one next step. Add a photograph too, if you want one. Then it composes the message to your witness. You send it yourself. AN HONEST LEDGER Miss a check-in and it goes on the record. It stays on the record, and your next message to your witness owns up to it. Any photograph you added sits beside that day's line. On deadline day the ledger demands a verdict: kept or missed. Verdicts are permanent. REMINDERS THAT HOLD YOU TO IT A reminder on every check-in day, at the hour you choose. An evening nudge if the check-in is still open. A warning three days from the deadline, another the day before, and a final one when the ledger wants its verdict. Optional daily nudges for weekly goals. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No backend. No analytics. Everything lives on your device, with JSON export whenever you want your data. Held never sends anything on your behalf — every message goes out through your own apps, in your own name. Also: a progress bar on every goal, renegotiation (changing a deal means telling your witness first), stakes ("if I miss, I owe Sandy a spa day"), multiple goals and witnesses, and an interface with nothing to fiddle with. Put something on the line.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Held at 100% against Thinkdrop's 31%. Held also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Thinkdrop's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Thinkdrop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Held asks for nothing beyond the download.
Held holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thinkdrop has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Thinkdrop's written reviews are positive against 100% of Held's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thinkdrop | Held |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ho Ye Lam | Theodor Younany |
Customer experience
Thinkdrop
Held
In-app purchases
Thinkdrop
- Think Drop 2 Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
- Think Drop 2 Annual Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year
Held
No in-app purchases









