Comparison

ThreadNote vs Be Grateful

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

Head to head
About

ThreadNote

This app offers a unique list-based note-taking experience without traditional titles. Organize your thoughts hierarchically with parent-child notes and navigate them using intuitive swipes and gestures. Customize display settings and export your notes in various formats.

Highlights
  • Hierarchical parent-child note organization
  • List-based display without traditional titles
  • Swipe and pinch gestures for navigation and folding
  • Text filtering and tag-based search
  • Note sharing and exporting
  • Customizable display settings
  • Data backup and restoration
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ThreadNote is a simple text note application that stands out for its two unique features. Firstly, it eschews the traditional title list format; instead, all content, both titles and body text, is displayed in a list format (with a limit on the number of display lines). Secondly, it allows for the creation of child notes, enabling users to organize notes into a branching hierarchy of parent-child relationships. Users can navigate between parent and child notes with left and right swipes, and can use pinch in to fold notes down to just the title and the first few lines of text (configurable from 0 to 10 lines), with a pinch out gesture to unfold. This folding action can also be performed by tapping a button on the note. Features: - Notes with titles, body text, tags, creation and modification dates - Note filtering through string and tag searches - Note editing and deletion - Tagging - Bookmarking - Note sharing (exporting) - Changing the order of notes - Moving notes between parents and children Note Sharing: - Notes can be exported to other apps or file folders via the action button on the note editing screen. - Options to select only the note being edited, all its siblings (notes at the same level), or all its descendants (notes at lower levels) - Select multiple output items: title/tags/creation date/modification date/body text - Auto-numbering: Automatically numbers titles when exporting multiple notes (optional) Settings: - Changing the font of titles and body text in the list and editing screens - Changing the base color - Dark mode toggle - Adjusting the maximum note width - Setting the number of lines for folded display in the list view (0 to 10 lines) - Setting the maximum number of display lines for body text in the list view (up to 500 lines) Other: - Backup and restoration of all data Limitations: - Only handles text. It cannot manage images, audio, location data, etc.

About

Be Grateful

Features
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Be Grateful is a digital gratitude jar. Capture life's little moments as they happen, watch them pile up in a jar, and reach in whenever you want to remember. Write down what you're grateful for 0 a title, a few words, a photo, or the place it happened - and drop it in. When you want to reflect, pull a moment out at random, read it, then put it back or let it go. No account. No cloud. No sync. Everything lives on your device, and only on your device — nothing you write ever leaves your phone. FEATURES • Capture moments with a title, description, photo, and location • A living jar of folded paper moments, physically simulated • Reflect on a random moment, then keep it or release it • Share a moment as a beautiful image • Weekly reminder to check in on your jar Be Grateful is a simple practice: notice the good, write it down, and come back to it later.

Screenshots

ThreadNote4 screens
Be Grateful4 screens

Verdict

The call

ThreadNote and Be Grateful are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ThreadNote versus Be Grateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThreadNoteBe Grateful
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmallmakeWilliam Coulter

In-app purchases

None

ThreadNote

No in-app purchases

None

Be Grateful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ThreadNote free?
ThreadNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Be Grateful free?
Be Grateful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ThreadNote or Be Grateful have ads?
Neither ThreadNote nor Be Grateful shows ads.

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