Thought Saver vs Y Combinator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thought Saver
This app helps you build a better daily routine with tools like meditation timers, journaling, and chatbots. It also uses spaced repetition to help you remember important ideas and offers daily quizzes and pre-made flashcard decks for learning.
- Daily routine integration
- Spaced repetition algorithm
- Meditation timers
- Gratitude journaling
- Interactive chatbots
- Daily quizzes
- Flashcard decks
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Discover a refreshed Thought Saver - your free, everyday companion for personal growth. We've added features to help you shape a wholesome daily routine, alongside our smart spaced repetition algorithm that helps remember important ideas. New routine tools: Integrate meditation timers, interactive chatbots, and gratitude journaling into your day. Smart spaced repetition: Our algorithm considers the importance of an idea and how well you recall it, helping you remember what truly matters. Daily quizzes: Expand your learning streak with handy quiz reminders. Idea exploration: Draw inspiration from our pre-existing flashcard decks and learn something new every day. Multi-platform sync: Seamless sync between our web app, mobile, and browser extension. Offline access: Create cards and take quizzes offline - we'll auto-sync once you're back online. Share with friends: Effortlessly share your cards and ideas via our cloud-based auto-syncing.
Y Combinator
Access Y Combinator's extensive library of startup content, including YouTube videos, podcasts, and essays. It also serves as a mobile client for Hacker News, offering the latest startup news for founders and programmers. Additional features are available for YC-funded founders.
- Organized YC YouTube videos
- Startup School content
- On-the-go podcast listening
- Hacker News mobile client
- YC founder-only knowledge base
- Access Bookface feed and messages
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The Y Combinator App is your home for all things YC. It organizes all of YC's YouTube videos, podcasts, and essays. It's also a mobile client for Hacker News, the best startup news source for programmers and technical founders. For founders who have been funded by YC, it has additional features. For everyone: - Organizes all of YC's YouTube videos - the world's best content on startups - All of the content from Startup School - Listen to YC podcasts on the go - Read Hacker News - the best news source for programmers and technical founders For YC founders: - Access the Bookface feed - Access Bookface messages - Read the YC founder-only knowledge base
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Thought Saver at 100% against Y Combinator's 33%. Thought Saver also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1). Y Combinator's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thought Saver holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Thought Saver's written reviews are positive against 33% of Y Combinator's.
Thought Saver ships an update every 11 days, Y Combinator every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Thought Saver | Y Combinator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.1 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SparkWave | Y Combinator |
Customer experience
Thought Saver
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In-app purchases
Thought Saver
No in-app purchases
Y Combinator
No in-app purchases
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