Headspace vs Ideafall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Headspace
This app offers a unique 3D approach to organizing thoughts and creating hierarchical outlines. Visualize your information in a floating space, navigate with intuitive gestures, and connect related ideas with visual links. It's designed for a dynamic and engaging way to manage lists and mind maps.
- Build hierarchical outlines in 3D space
- Navigate and zoom with familiar finger gestures
- Connect related items with link lines
- Change item color and opacity
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
- Sync files with Dropbox
- PDF export with active note links
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*** PLEASE NOTE: This NOT the meditation app! *** (There is another app called "Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness" and this is NOT that app!) This is the *original* Headspace! HEADSPACE is iOS's coolest 3D outliner and mind-mapping app! Do your list-making and mind-mapping in 3D space with the *original* Headspace. "Five stars on iPhone, completely off the scale on iPad" "This is the app I've most wanted to run on the iPad since the day it was announced, and the app that anyone looking over your shoulder will immediately want to buy an iPad just to run. " "Love the program. Favorite app. Useful and looks great. " "The implementation is beautiful! In my opinion, Headspace is becoming one of the best apps in the store." "I bought Headspace last night on a whim - been fooling around with mindmapping apps lately. This is a little piece of brilliance, you know that, right? " "This app could not just be a mindmapping program, It has the capability to become a new kind of U.I. That in my opinion that improved over apples U.I." Headspace allows you to create items and groups of items on a floating plane in three-dimensional space. The hierarchy of items and their various sub-items make for a beautiful display of information as they recede into the distance. Simple and familiar finger gestures allow you to move around the space. Use the menu button to travel between various groups. Easily create links and travel between them. The beautiful animated interface is like something from a sci-fi movie, but it isn't just eye-candy. You can go from an "eagle-eye" view of your entire map to focusing on a single item with a simple pinch of your fingers. There's just something about being able to manipulate the scale and space that goes perfectly with the idea of outlining. Here's a rundown on all its cool features: ● build hierarchical outlines in 3D space ● use familiar finger gestures to navigate and zoom ● connect related items with link lines - even between files! ● change item color and opacity ● change text color ● 'Flick' up or down to travel to top or bottom of lists ● special characters and foreign-language support ● universal app -- runs on both iphone and ipad ● easy travel between groups and files ● cut-and-paste items ● search in spaces, notes, and files ● item notes for supplemental information (text/photo/url) ● optional accelerometer rotate ● customizable color palette ● "to-do" style item checkboxes ● 2D orthogonal mode ● sync files between your iphone and iPad with Dropbox ● file support for Freemind, the free multi-platform desktop mind-mapping program ● stunning PDF export w/ active note links Get some perspective on your thoughts. Try Headspace today! Let us know what else you'd like to see added, email headspace@flatblackfilms.com!
Ideafall
Capture, organize, and evaluate your creative thoughts. This app supports your entire ideation process, from initial brainstorming to strategic execution planning. Visualize ideas, analyze them objectively, and build roadmaps for bringing them to life.
- Capture ideas from web content
- Visual brainstorming with 'spaces'
- Objective idea evaluation with charts
- Agile roadmap for execution planning
- Share ideas and charts as images/PDFs
- iCloud synchronization
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Ideafall (formerly Ideabook) helps creative minds focus on their best ideas. From ideation and capturing of ideas to reviewing and decision making, Ideafall supports your entire creative process in a unique and practical way. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Easily capture all your ideas - wherever you are. Got inspired while reading something on the web? Simply select the relevant text and share it with Ideafall. Quickly add additional thoughts to existing ideas via Spotlight-enabled search. Collecting your ideas has never been easier. Never lose a good idea again. BRAINSTORM & IDEATE Sometimes you need a more visual setting for coming up with new ideas for a specific topic. Or you want to do a brainstorming session in a more organized way. This is where "spaces" come in: visually organize your ideas via idea cards, group related ideas together and help your brain to understand the big picture. EVALUATE. REVIEW. DECIDE Innovative people typically have too many ideas, rather than too few. But to be successful we have to focus on our best ideas. Ideafall helps you to rate ideas regarding up to 10 configurable criteria and analyze them using bubble charts. Improve your chances of success by evaluating ideas more objectively and thus, making more informed decisions. ROADMAP & EXECUTE The best ideas are not worth anything without a proper strategy on how to execute them. The agile roadmap enables you to schedule your ideas across four different horizons: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. The "roadmap" view is visualized as a Kanban board and supports drag & drop. Implement and track your ideas more efficiently with the help of a clear, agile execution strategy. FEATURES - Searchable tabular "Ideas" view with adjustable sort order - Clear drag & drop enabled "Spaces" view for spatially organizing ideas using idea cards - Unique "Bubbles" view for analyzing ideas using customizable bubble charts in four dimensions (x, y, bubble size and color) - Kanban-style, agile "Roadmap" with four horizons (Now, Next, Later, Someday) for planning an execution strategy using drag & drop - Global portfolio filter - Easy sharing of idea spaces and bubble charts as image or PDF documents - Clean and at the same time highly visual user experience - Built-in support for accessibility - Seamless syncing via iCloud Get Ideafall and focus your creativity!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Headspace at $3.99 against Ideafall's $29.99. Headspace also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Ideafall's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Headspace costs $3.99 and Ideafall $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ideafall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Headspace has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Headspace's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ideafall's.
Headspace ships an update every 2 months, Ideafall every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Headspace | Ideafall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flat Black Films | Elemental Tools GmbH |
Customer experience
Headspace
Ideafall
Bugs and requests
Headspace
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on creating new groups
- Crashes when entering text on iPad
- Text color picker fails to change colors
- Instant crash when closing text color picker
- Crashes on Dropbox connection
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- Data loss with file format updates
- Existing links lost after updates
- Screen flickers between files
- Text display issues after multiple app launches
- Color brightness settings lost
- Keyboard popup without dialog box
- Accelerometer causes erratic screen movement
- Incompatibility with iOS/iPadOS updates
- Performance lag with large maps
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
24 requests- Desktop/Mac version for syncing
- iCloud syncing between iOS devices
- Google Drive and OneDrive support
- Evernote integration
- Ability to drag items between groups
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- Undo functionality
- Export to email directly
- Different arrow/connector styles
- OPML export format
- Reminders and deadline notifications
- Different text box shapes
- Photo/image import and support
- Web-based version
- Ability to move items outside groups
- Simpler gesture controls for text entry
- List view option
- Icons and visual indicators for content types
- Advanced search functionality
- Child count indicators on parent nodes
- Customizable 3D graphics
- Movie recording with preset paths
- Structured data visualization capabilities
- Automatic color selection for new groups
- Bullet points for children items
Ideafall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Headspace
No in-app purchases
Ideafall
No in-app purchases









