Thrive vs Thought Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Break down ambitious goals
- Organize ideas and thoughts
- Visualize decision impacts
- Automatic progress stats
- Widgets for staying on track
- Note-taking functionality
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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/
Thought Path
Quickly capture thoughts, ideas, and tasks in a digital inbox. Visualize your mental output over time through maps or search. Automate capture and review with integrations.
- Quick thought capture
- Task management
- Idea organization
- Visual output (map/search)
- Automation with Shortcuts
- On-device storage
- iCloud sync
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Thought Path is an inbox to quickly capture all your thoughts, ideas, and tasks. Easily see the output of your brain over time, on a map, or in search results. You can integrate Thought Path with Shortcuts, to automate capturing and reviewing your thoughts. Though Path is free to use indefinitely, but you will need to review and archive all your thoughts once you reach a cap of 15. Pro users can remove this limit with a subscription fee. This app is made by a sole indie developer, and that means I care about user experience, not collecting user data. All your thoughts and ideas are saved on device and synced over iCloud - nothing is ever sent anywhere else for any reason. Terms of Use: https://andhash39.com/thoughtpath/terms Privacy Policy: https://andhash39.com/thoughtpath/privacy
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Verdict
Thrive and Thought Path both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of Thrive's written reviews are positive against 25% of Thought Path's. Thrive also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (42 vs 10). 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
Both are free to download. Thrive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Thought Path sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Thrive against 4.4 for Thought Path. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Thrive's written reviews are positive against 25% of Thought Path's.
Thrive ships an update every 9 days, Thought Path monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Thrive | Thought Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (42 ratings) | 4.4 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shlag | Matthew James O'Donnell |
Customer experience
Thrive
Thought Path
In-app purchases
Thrive
- Thrive Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly Thrive Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Thought Path
- Thought Path Pro (1 Month)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Thought Path Pro (1 Year)7 Days trial$14.991 Year









