Yes Session vs Somenotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yes Session
This app provides a supportive environment for brainstorming by offering random phrases of encouragement during your idea generation sessions. It records your audio ideas and allows you to share them via email. You can also customize the encouraging phrases to personalize your experience.
- Positive feedback simulation
- Audio recording of ideas
- Email audio file sharing
- Customizable encouraging phrases
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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Did you ever have a meeting where your ideas get shot down? Did you ever have a meeting WITH YOURSELF where ideas get shot down? "Yes Session" is a positive feedback app to encourage you to brainstorm ideas. It simulates having a meeting with an interested party. When you pause to let the idea sink in, "Yes Session" speaks up with random phrases of encouragement! Yes Session records your ideas while you do this, and you can mail the resulting audio file to yourself or an interested party! You can customize it by adding your own encouraging phrases using the iTunes document interface. Yes Session : encouraging you since 2011!
Somenotes
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App to write, save all your notes in the cloud, based on somenotes website
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Somenotes at Free against Yes Session's $0.99. Somenotes also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 36 months). Yes Session's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Somenotes is free to download; Yes Session costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yes Session ships an update every 36 months, Somenotes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yes Session | Somenotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Henry Lowengard | Luis Quijada |
In-app purchases
Yes Session
No in-app purchases
Somenotes
No in-app purchases
