iDeas for Writing vs Danger Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDeas for Writing
Overcome writer's block with a comprehensive writing workshop. Generate story starters, titles, characters, and random words. Includes exercises, a notebook, and writing tips to spark creativity and improve your craft.
- First line generator
- Title creator
- Character creator
- Random word generator
- Writing exercises by category
- In-app notebook
- Writing tips
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If you like writing, you don't have to worry about the creative blocks or the fear of the blank page anymore. Thanks to "iDeas for Writing", you will always carry with you a whole writing workshop with creative triggers and exercises to get your imagination flowing. In "iDeas for Writing" you will find: CREATOR OF FIRST LINES A creative trigger with thousand of great suggestions to give your stories a starting point. CREATOR OF TITLES A generator of surprising and inspiring titles to put the finishing touch to your novels, screenplays, tales... CREATOR OF CHARACTERS A creative trigger with an infinite number of characters for you to find and model the protagonists of your narrations. CREATOR OF RANDOM WORDS A generator of five random words for you to get inspired before your daily writing and to use as a start point in some exercises of the app. WRITING EXERCISES A complete writing workshop with a lot of exercises organized by category and difficulty, for you to improve your writing and get the most of the creative triggers in the app. The categories you will find in the writing exercises are: 1. Start writing right now. Exercises to beat the blank page and start writing as soon as possible 2. Build your characters. Exercises for creating and shaping memorable characters 3. Master the writing techniques. Exercises to practice several literary and narrative techniques 4. Make them speak. Exercises for working with narrators and dialogues 5. Give the atmosphere. Exercises to describe and give atmosphere to the stories easily 6. You are in a hurry. Quick exercises for the days you haven't enough time NOTEBOOK You will have a smart notebook for writing within the app, developing the workshop exercises, taking notes and having your ideas always with you. WRITING TIPS In "iDeas for Writing" you will also find a little section with tips and advices to help and motivate you in your day by day writing. SAVE AND ORGANIZE You can mark your favorite exercises or those that you have already done to get better organization. You can also save the results of the creative triggers modify them as you want and keep them for later. "iDeas for Writing", inspiration in your pocket. ___ © iDeas for Writing - Literautas
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 price: Danger Notes at Free against iDeas for Writing's $2.99. Danger Notes also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 70). iDeas for Writing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, device support and iOS requirement 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
Danger Notes is free to download; iDeas for Writing costs $2.99 up front. Danger Notes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. iDeas for Writing asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for iDeas for Writing against 4.8 for Danger Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of iDeas for Writing's written reviews are positive against 84% of Danger Notes's.
iDeas for Writing ships an update every 6 weeks, Danger Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDeas for Writing | Danger Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (70 ratings) | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bartolome Masco Lopez | Villegas Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
iDeas for Writing
Danger Notes
Bugs and requests
iDeas for Writing
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
iDeas for Writing
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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