Tot Mini vs Pupil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tot Mini
This app offers a streamlined way to capture, organize, and edit text across Apple devices. Its minimalist design uses color-coded dots for organization, and it supports Markdown for web use. Seamless iCloud sync ensures your notes are accessible anywhere.
- Color-coded note organization
- iCloud synchronization
- Markdown support
- Dictation and Scribble input
- Cross-device compatibility
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Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It’s your tiny text companion! ⁕ Less Is More Tot’s simple design mean no more hunting for that chunk of text. Seven color-coded dots let you organize your notes while keeping them from getting out of hand. ⁕ iCloud Sync Seamlessly syncs your text across watchOS, iOS and macOS using iCloud so you can capture thoughts wherever you are. ⁕ Markdown Support Full support for rich or plain text and even automatically translates text to Markdown for handy use on the web. Have an RTF file you need marked up? No problem! ⁕ Killer Input Tot supports dictation and Scribble on Apple Watch. Quick, easy, and waiting for additional editing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Available for watchOS, iOS, and macOS.
Pupil
This app helps students organize their academic life with a clean interface. It offers detailed task creation, daily planning, and semester organization to manage assignments and important deadlines effectively.
- Clean and simple UI
- Today page for daily tasks
- Detailed task creation
- Subtasks and priority picker
- Daily planner
- Semester organization
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FEATURES - Clean, informative, and simple UI - Today page view - Shows your plan for the day and important tasks - Detailed task creation, with 8+ common school assignment types - Task priority picker - Subtasks - Estimated completion time for tasks - Daily planner - Organization by semesters - Consistent Updates - Completely free, with no ads COMING SOON - Widgets - More task sorting - Study plans - plan out tests and quizzes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pupil at 100% against Tot Mini's 50%. Pupil also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.9). Tot Mini's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 2) and chart position (#117 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Pupil is free to download; Tot Mini costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pupil holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tot Mini has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Tot Mini's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pupil's.
Tot Mini ships an update every 2 months, Pupil monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tot Mini | Pupil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #117 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Iconfactory | Pruett Fedorowicz |
Customer experience
Tot Mini
Pupil
In-app purchases
Tot Mini
No in-app purchases
Pupil
No in-app purchases
