Comparison

Mental Note ๛ vs Tasbeeh Adaad

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

Head to head
About

Mental Note ๛

This app offers a versatile digital notepad experience, allowing users to combine text, photos, voice recordings, and drawings on a single page. Capture ideas in any format, organize them with tags, and share them easily.

Highlights
  • Combine text, photos, audio, and drawings
  • Finger drawing with multiple colors
  • Add photos from album or camera
  • Record audio while editing notes
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Password protect private notes
  • Export notes in various formats (PDF, text)
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"...a true notepad experience that may help you make a clean break from the pencil-and-paper era." -New York Times. Users describe Mental Note as "the only notepad app... that's actually better than, and as simple as, a pen and paper." It's "the future of note taking", and "a big sketchpad... [to] free associate and put stuff down in any format". Turn your iPhone into a digital notepad. Combine photographs, voice recordings, drawings and text - all on the same page, in any order you choose. An idea... a flash - a moment of genius. When a thought hits, and you have to remember it, why limit how you record it? The more context and sensory details you can capture, the clearer the idea can be put down. Use photographs, audio, sketching and text together on the same page... a digital page that can be shared with anyone. Mental Note allows you to capture ideas as they happen: use photographs, dictate, add text, sketch on anything. Ideas clarified. Creativity captured. FEATURES - Draw with your finger using multiple colours and widths on top of photographs, text, or anywhere else on the page. Zoom in to sketch fine details. - Take a photo or choose one from your album and add it to the page. - Add audio to the page by recording with your microphone. Continue to edit your note while recording. - Organize your notes using tags. - Password protect your private notes and flag your important ones. - Attach Calendar events to your notes. - Undo, redo anything in the note by shaking the device. - Delete note sections using the toolbar button or by swiping any note section. - Move a note section by swiping and then dragging it to its new location. - Length of a note is limited only by device memory. - Export in a variety of formats including PDF, text, Mental Note format, and more. Send using email, iCloud, Dropbox, and more. * Send a note in Mental Note format so the note may be imported into another person's Mental Note app. * Using email, export a complete note directly from Mental Note as either a PDF document or a picture (each audio recording is attached to the email as a separate file). You can also email just the text from your note. - Export your notes and backups to your iCloud and/or Dropbox account. - Share a note with your friends using most installed apps. - Map the location a note was created at (if location services are enabled). - Change the size and font of the text in your notes. - Change the color and background of your notes. - Numerous other configuration options. THIS VERSION IS OPTIMIZED FOR iPhone. FOR iPad, PLEASE SEE Mental Note for iPad. Read more: www.zymbiotic.com X @zymbiotic facebook.com/zymbiotic

About

Tasbeeh Adaad

Recite tasbeeh anytime, anywhere with this digital counter. It tracks your recitations and provides alerts to help you stay on course. Never forget your tasbeeh count again.

Highlights
  • Digital tasbeeh counter
  • Recitation tracking
  • Alerts for stopping
  • Count completion notifications
  • Convenient smartphone use
Features
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Tasbeeh adaad app is an easy and a new way to recite tasbeeh whenever and wherever you want. Forget the tracking of tasbeeh as this app have that feature. Now forget the stress of carrying tasbeeh with you as it is now in your smartphone. This app contains feature of alert like if you want to stop or you want to know that how many tasbeeh you have done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ التسبيح عداد هو وسيلة سهلة وطريقة جديدة لقراءة التسبيح كلما وحيثما تريد. ننسى تتبع التسبيح لأن هذا التطبيق لديه هذه الميزة. مع الضغط ننسي حمل التسبيح معك ولكن الان يوجد في الهاتف الذكي الخاص بك. يحتوي هذا التطبيق ميزة التنبيه مثل إذا كنت تريد أن تتوقف أو كنت تريد أن تعرف كم عدد التسبيح كنت قد فعلتها.

Screenshots

Mental Note ๛4 screens
Tasbeeh Adaad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tasbeeh Adaad at Free against Mental Note ๛'s $4.99. Tasbeeh Adaad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Mental Note ๛'s advantage is rating (4.1 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tasbeeh Adaad is free to download; Mental Note ๛ costs $4.99 up front. Mental Note ๛ sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tasbeeh Adaad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mental Note ๛ holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Note ๛ has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Mental Note ๛'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Tasbeeh Adaad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mental Note ๛ ships an update every 5 months, Tasbeeh Adaad every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Mental Note ๛ versus Tasbeeh Adaad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Note ๛Tasbeeh Adaad
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (16 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZymbiotic TechnologiesFakhruddin Kuwala

Customer experience

Mental Note ๛

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews201 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral17.9%
Negative18.9%

Tasbeeh Adaad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Mental Note ๛

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes sometimes disappear or get deleted unexpectedly
  • Audio recording feature not working properly
  • Keyboard issues causing loss of typed text
  • Location services not accurately detecting user's location

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add iCloud or Dropbox sync
  • Implement copy/paste and text formatting options
  • Improve drawing tools with more customization
  • Introduce a task/to-do list feature
  • Add video recording capability
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  • Provide more font and color options

Tasbeeh Adaad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mental Note ๛

One-time3
  • Paper Customization feature$2.99
  • Straight Line Drawing feature$3.99
  • Dark Mode Override feature$3.99
None

Tasbeeh Adaad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mental Note ๛ free?
Mental Note ๛ costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Tasbeeh Adaad free?
Tasbeeh Adaad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mental Note ๛ or Tasbeeh Adaad?
Mental Note ๛ is rated higher. Mental Note ๛ averages 4.1 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Tasbeeh Adaad averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mental Note ๛ or Tasbeeh Adaad have ads?
Tasbeeh Adaad shows ads; Mental Note ๛ does not.
Which is updated more often, Mental Note ๛ or Tasbeeh Adaad?
Mental Note ๛ ships an update every 5 months, and Tasbeeh Adaad every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mental Note ๛ was updated on November 1, 2026 and Tasbeeh Adaad on October 24, 2026.

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