Comparison

Tot Mini vs Cue

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Color-coded note organization
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Markdown support
  • Dictation and Scribble input
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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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.

About

Cue

Features
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It's a Widget. It's that simple. It lives on your home screen. Press and hold anywhere on your wallpaper, and add CUE Widget. CUE: ADHD Routine Widget was built around making reminders simple. Instead of asking you to open an app, unlock a screen, and scroll past everything else your phone thinks is urgent, CUE puts the one task you need to do directly on your home screen, visible before you've made a single decision about where to look. You see it, you tap it, and it's done. This is not a productivity system with color-coded projects and a weekly review you'll abandon in a couple of weeks. CUE is built around how ADHD brains move through a day, which is not in straight lines and not on anyone else's schedule. A morning routine gets built the same way a real morning happens, one visible step at a time, not as a checklist you're supposed to finish before you're allowed to feel okay about yourself. Miss a day, and CUE doesn't lecture you about it. It just shows you tomorrow's step. You don't need a diagnosis to use it. A student who reliably forgets what time her lab starts, a father running two kids and a shift schedule, a person who has lost the same set of keys four times this month, all end up using CUE the same way, which is to say they stop thinking about the system and just look at the widget. Reminders are gentle by design, because a phone that buzzes at you eleven times a day trains you to ignore it, and an ignored reminder is worse than no reminder at all. CUE asks once, clearly, at the moment that matters, and gets out of your way. Add the widget. Build one routine. Check it when you need to focus, and forget about it the rest of the time, which is the whole point. That's the pitch. The rest is just the part where you find out it works. Terms of Use: https://bigkidney-cpu.github.io/cue-landing/terms-of-service.html

Screenshots

Cue3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cue at Free against Tot Mini's $1.99. Tot Mini's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Cue is free to download; Tot Mini costs $1.99 up front. Cue sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Tot Mini asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tot Mini ships an update every 2 months, Cue every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Tot Mini versus Cue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTot MiniCue
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe IconfactoryJonny Kidney

In-app purchases

None

Tot Mini

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cue

Subscriptions2
  • CUE Widget Monthly$3.991 Month
  • CUE Widget Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Tot Mini free?
Tot Mini costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cue free?
Cue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tot Mini or Cue have ads?
Neither Tot Mini nor Cue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tot Mini or Cue?
Tot Mini ships an update every 2 months, and Cue every 6 weeks. Most recently, Tot Mini was updated on November 7, 2026 and Cue on November 6, 2026.

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