Comparison

Brainwave vs Yabbu

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

Head to head
About

Brainwave

Capture and organize your thoughts with this note-taking application. Create calendar events, reminders, and export notes in various formats. Protect sensitive information with password protection and manage your data with backup and restore options.

Highlights
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Password protect sensitive notes
  • Create calendar events and reminders
  • Export notes to PDF or text
  • Supports various links (web, phone, maps)
  • Backup and restore notes
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Transfer your ideas from brain wave to Brainwave. • Organize on the fly by tagging notes with any number of tags • Flag important notes; password protect sensitive notes • Create calendar events and reminders based on your notes • Change the size and font of the text • Export notes directly from Brainwave to a variety of destinations, in formats including: ◦ Email as PDF ◦ Send to Dropbox or almost any app as PDF ◦ Email as text • Create restore points, backing up all notes to a single file • Supports links (web, phone numbers, map addresses - that can even be opened in Google Maps, calendar dates) • Numerous configuration options • Length of a note is limited only by device memory • Supports all device orientations Sometimes an idea can circle around and around in your mind - like a whirlpool swirling, or a tidal wave growing, it confuses, it overwhelms, and it isn't until you write it down that it becomes clear. Write it down. Get it out. Record it before it’s washed away. Free your mind to work on other thoughts. Store your brain waves in Brainwave.

About

Yabbu

This remote work tool streamlines collaboration and decision-making, aiming to reduce unnecessary meetings. It allows teams to prepare agendas, share documents, and track progress asynchronously, ensuring all agenda items are addressed efficiently.

Highlights
  • Agenda preparation and publishing
  • Document sharing
  • Asynchronous individual work
  • Topic discussion and progress tracking
  • Decision making and action point assignment
  • Automatic minute publishing
Features
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Too many meetings? Issues syncing calendars? Working in different time zones? Yabbu is the remote working tool that improves results while cancelling the meeting. Great chance you have closed all agenda items even before the meeting starts. Then, cancel the meeting. And if not, your meeting is at least reduced to the number one priority topic. With the time left you can start building strong relationships. Here's how it works: Prepare your agenda, add documents, add participants, and publish. Participants receive an invite. Everyone works individually at a time of their choosing, even remotely. Discuss topics, track progress, make decisions, close agenda items, and add action points. And when you’re ready, Yabbu will publish the minutes. Welcome to a world where: No one is late. Or unprepared. Everyone contributes. Deadlines are met. Syncing calendars is history. And Yabbu does the minutes. Today's innovation and the ability to anticipate trends are more important than ever. Your organisation will move forward as fast as it is able to make smart decisions. That is exactly what Yabbu is about. It makes your company agile and more compliant at the same time.

Screenshots

Brainwave4 screens
Yabbu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yabbu at 100% against Brainwave's 20%. Yabbu also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.0). Brainwave's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Yabbu is free to download; Brainwave costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yabbu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Brainwave's written reviews are positive against 100% of Yabbu's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brainwave ships an update every 3 months, Yabbu every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brainwave versus Yabbu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainwaveYabbu
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZymbiotic TechnologiesTjelp BV

Customer experience

Brainwave

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral30.0%
Negative50.0%

Yabbu

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brainwave

No in-app purchases

None

Yabbu

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brainwave free?
Brainwave costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yabbu free?
Yabbu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brainwave or Yabbu?
Yabbu is rated higher. Brainwave averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Yabbu averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Brainwave or Yabbu have ads?
Neither Brainwave nor Yabbu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brainwave or Yabbu?
Brainwave ships an update every 3 months, and Yabbu every 2 months. Most recently, Brainwave was updated on October 1, 2026 and Yabbu on October 8, 2026.

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