Comparison

Headspace Lite vs iSectionLite

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

Head to head
About

Headspace Lite

This app allows users to create and organize ideas in a unique 3D space. Visualize your thoughts, to-do lists, and big ideas with interactive panning, zooming, and linking features. It's a revolutionary way to approach mind-mapping and list-making.

Highlights
  • 3D mind-mapping
  • Hierarchical lists
  • Connect related items
  • Customizable colors
  • Detailed notes
  • Search function
  • Checkboxes
Features
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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. *** PLEASE NOTE: This NOT the meditation app! *** (There is another app called "Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness" and this is NOT that app!) "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." Hey, man. Get all up inside your own head with HEADSPACE LITE, the 'lite' version of Flat Black Films' revolutionary 3D mind-mapping application for iphone! Big ideas, great thoughts, even boring to-do lists are more fun when they're in THREE DIMENSIONS. Create groups of related thoughts and position them in space. Rotate, pan, and zoom your view with finger gestures. Go all David Lynch and get DEEP with yourself. Create hierarchical lists of items -- children of children of children -- and doubletap to 'stack' them in space. Change their color and translucency. Connect related items with 'link' lines. It's heavy. This is the free version of the full app "Headspace". This version limits you to one "space", and you cannot export/import files. Headspace Lite shares these cool features with the full version: - pan view with one finger - hold finger to slowly zoom in towards touch point - add links and travel between them using the 'link balls' - optional detailed notes for each item (text/URL/photo) - search function (items, notes, and files) - sample file - checkboxes - copy and paste items - customize colors and rearrange palette - drag group name to move group - triple-tap to 'send' an item to another group - optionally disable accelerometer tilt - tap empty space to pre-specify new group placement - YouTube video demonstration - support for European characters like umlauts and the like If you end up liking it, please get the full version! Let me know what else you'd like to see added, email headspace@flatblackfilms.com.

About

iSectionLite

This engineering app calculates mechanical and structural properties for built-up section members. It supports various international steel shapes and allows input and output in both metric and imperial units.

Highlights
  • Calculates moment of inertia, modulus of section, radius of gyration, area, and weight
  • Supports European, American, Canadian, and British steel shapes
  • Input and output in mm or inch units
  • Calculations in principal axes
  • Light version with limitations on hot rolled library and flange dimensions
Features
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iSection: For all structural engineers, steel designers, mechanical engineers: This engineering application for the iPhone or the iPod Touch calculates the mechanical and structural properties of three-plate built up section members. That includes moment of inertia, modulus of section, radius of gyration, area and weight. The calculations are done in both principal axes. This program is particularly useful for analysis and design of indeterminate structures and for calculating actual and allowable (permissible) stresses of structural members (beams, columns, etc.). The input is top flange width, top flange thickness, bottom flange width, bottom flange thickness, web depth and web thickness. The top flange and bottom flange dimensions can vary. You can select a section from a large library of hot rolled shapes: European IPE, HEA, HEB, HEM and American W shapes Canadian W metric shapes and British universal beams and columns (UB and UC shapes). More shapes from other countries will be added in the next releases. The input can be in mm or inch units, the output of area, Ixx, Sxx, Sxt, Sxb, Iyy, Iyt, Iyb, Syy rx, ry, rt, rb, Syt, Syb, depth and neutral axis can be displayed in mm or inch units. The weight can be displayed in kg/m or Lb/ft. This is a light version with limitations: The hot rolled library contains selected American shapes only and the built up section can have only equal top and bottom flanges. For the full version see iSection in the App Store. See also iConcrete in the App Store which designs single and double reinforced concrete rectangular and T beams.

Screenshots

Headspace Lite4 screens
iSectionLite2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Headspace Lite at 3.0 against iSectionLite's 2.1. Headspace Lite also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 46 months) and review sentiment (69% vs 50%). iSectionLite's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Headspace Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Headspace Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of iSectionLite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Headspace Lite ships an update every 2 months, iSectionLite every 46 months. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Headspace Lite versus iSectionLite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeadspace LiteiSectionLite
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings) — better2.1 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings313 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 46 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlat Black Filmsahmj

Customer experience

Headspace Lite

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative20.4%

iSectionLite

All ratings13 ratings
Positive23.1%
Neutral7.7%
Negative69.2%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Headspace Lite

No in-app purchases

None

iSectionLite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Headspace Lite free?
Headspace Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iSectionLite free?
iSectionLite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Headspace Lite or iSectionLite?
Headspace Lite is rated higher. Headspace Lite averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while iSectionLite averages 2.1 from 13 ratings.
Do Headspace Lite or iSectionLite have ads?
Neither Headspace Lite nor iSectionLite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Headspace Lite or iSectionLite?
Headspace Lite ships an update every 2 months, and iSectionLite every 46 months. Most recently, Headspace Lite was updated on October 6, 2026 and iSectionLite on October 6, 2026.

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