Flash Fiction Prompter vs Danger Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flash Fiction Prompter
This app offers a creative solution to overcome writer's block by generating random characters, settings, and plot elements. It provides millions of unique writing prompts to spark your imagination and get your stories flowing.
- Millions of writing prompts
- Random character generator
- Random setting generator
- Random plot generator
- Swipe navigation
- Shake to shuffle
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Flash Fiction Prompter is the FREE cure for writer's block! Flash Fiction Prompter provides over 48 million writing prompts by giving you a random character, setting, and plot. INTERACTIONS: - Swipe left or right on a card to see the next or previous card. - Shake device to shuffle the deck to a random set of cards. Selected as Top 5 Writing Apps in May 2013 issue of Fashion Magazine. Send your suggestions for characters, settings and plots, or feature request and bugs to feedback@flashfictionprompter.com
Danger Notes
This app is designed to combat writer's block by requiring continuous typing to save your work. If you stop typing, all unsaved progress is permanently deleted, encouraging a consistent writing flow.
- Continuous typing required to save
- Work deleted if typing stops
- Fights writer's block
- Encourages writing flow
- Suitable for essays, books, and lyrics
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Don’t stop typing. If you do, all your work will disappear and be gone forever. Danger Notes is the ultimate writing tool to help fight writer’s block. Whether you are writing a term paper, an essay, a book, your best-man speech, promising rap lyrics or just free writing, Danger Notes will help you fight writer’s block by forcing you to keep writing in order to save your progress from being deleted. The theory behind this wonderful writing tool, is that by pressuring you to keep writing, you will be forced to formulate an actual flow of written work instead of just staring at a blank document for 2 hours with no progress to show for. The more words you type the easier it will be to break past your writer's block and keep typing. Break writer's block with Danger Notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Danger Notes at 4.8 against Flash Fiction Prompter's 3.8. Danger Notes also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 12). Flash Fiction Prompter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Danger Notes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Flash Fiction Prompter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Danger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Flash Fiction Prompter's written reviews are positive against 84% of Danger Notes's.
Flash Fiction Prompter ships an update every 12 months, Danger Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flash Fiction Prompter | Danger Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (12 ratings) | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Jones | Villegas Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Flash Fiction Prompter
Danger Notes
Bugs and requests
Flash Fiction Prompter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Danger Notes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Accidental deletion of work
- Overlapping text when reaching page limit
- Glitches after updating to iOS 16
Requested features
7 requests- Add writing prompts
- Implement a pause/resume function
- Provide formatting options
- Allow setting word count goals
- Add a way to export or share written work
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- Offer a desktop version
- Implement a daily writing reminder
In-app purchases
Flash Fiction Prompter
No in-app purchases
Danger Notes
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$0.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$1.99
- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$2.99
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- Support Danger Notes via a Tip$3.99
- Buy Me Coffee$4.99
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