Brainwave vs Simple Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Simple Notes
A powerful yet simple note-taking application offering cross-device syncing, customizable themes, and robust security features. It allows users to set reminders, highlight text, and even save notes as images.
- Cross-device syncing (Dropbox/iCloud)
- Zoomable font sizes
- Searchable highlighted text
- Note reminders
- Password protection (AES 256-bit)
- Shake to undo/redo
- Customizable themes and fonts
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Simple, Clean and Easy to Use, Yet Powerful and Loaded with Features. Key Features: --------------------- - One universal app for all your IOS Devices. - Sync your notes with Dropbox and/or iCloud. - Zoom in or out on any note to get the ideal font size suitable for your vision. - Highlight words and search terms inside your notes. - Set reminders to your notes to read them later. - Save text as an image to your camera roll. - Use Password Protection with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 256-bit) to secure data and to protect your notes from prying eyes. - Shake your device to undo or redo: delete, creating, editing, restoring and more. - 9 font styles with five font colors. - Sort your notes chronologically or alphabetically. - Choose from six different color themes to modify your notes to suit your taste. - The ability to AirPrint your notes. - Auto Paste: when you run the app it will save text that you copied (Text in the Clipboard) automatically as a note. - Night Mode that makes reading in the dark easier on your eyes. - And much more..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Notes at 82% against Brainwave's 20%. Simple Notes also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (39 vs 1). Brainwave's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On update cadence, 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
Brainwave costs $0.99 and Simple Notes $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Notes has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Brainwave's written reviews are positive against 82% of Simple Notes's.
Brainwave ships an update every 3 months, Simple Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brainwave | Simple Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zymbiotic Technologies | Sadah Software Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
Brainwave
Simple Notes
In-app purchases
Brainwave
No in-app purchases
Simple Notes
No in-app purchases
