Comparison

When vs Ideafall

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

Head to head
About

When

Quickly set reminders with a single tap by interacting with a clock face. Customize your reminders with notes, colors, icons, and sounds. View all your upcoming tasks in a comprehensive list.

Highlights
  • One-tap reminder setting
  • Clock face time adjustment
  • Add notes to reminders
  • Customizable colors and icons
  • Select reminder sounds
  • View all reminders list
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Set reminders in one tap! Tap the clock face at the time you want — and your reminder is ready. • Move the reminder around the clock face to change the time. • Add notes. • Customize the color and icon. • Choose a sound. • View the full list of reminders. Give it a try!

About

Ideafall

Capture, organize, and evaluate your creative thoughts. This app supports your entire ideation process, from initial brainstorming to strategic execution planning. Visualize ideas, analyze them objectively, and build roadmaps for bringing them to life.

Highlights
  • Capture ideas from web content
  • Visual brainstorming with 'spaces'
  • Objective idea evaluation with charts
  • Agile roadmap for execution planning
  • Share ideas and charts as images/PDFs
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Ideafall (formerly Ideabook) helps creative minds focus on their best ideas. From ideation and capturing of ideas to reviewing and decision making, Ideafall supports your entire creative process in a unique and practical way. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Easily capture all your ideas - wherever you are. Got inspired while reading something on the web? Simply select the relevant text and share it with Ideafall. Quickly add additional thoughts to existing ideas via Spotlight-enabled search. Collecting your ideas has never been easier. Never lose a good idea again. BRAINSTORM & IDEATE Sometimes you need a more visual setting for coming up with new ideas for a specific topic. Or you want to do a brainstorming session in a more organized way. This is where "spaces" come in: visually organize your ideas via idea cards, group related ideas together and help your brain to understand the big picture. EVALUATE. REVIEW. DECIDE Innovative people typically have too many ideas, rather than too few. But to be successful we have to focus on our best ideas. Ideafall helps you to rate ideas regarding up to 10 configurable criteria and analyze them using bubble charts. Improve your chances of success by evaluating ideas more objectively and thus, making more informed decisions. ROADMAP & EXECUTE The best ideas are not worth anything without a proper strategy on how to execute them. The agile roadmap enables you to schedule your ideas across four different horizons: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. The "roadmap" view is visualized as a Kanban board and supports drag & drop. Implement and track your ideas more efficiently with the help of a clear, agile execution strategy. FEATURES - Searchable tabular "Ideas" view with adjustable sort order - Clear drag & drop enabled "Spaces" view for spatially organizing ideas using idea cards - Unique "Bubbles" view for analyzing ideas using customizable bubble charts in four dimensions (x, y, bubble size and color) - Kanban-style, agile "Roadmap" with four horizons (Now, Next, Later, Someday) for planning an execution strategy using drag & drop - Global portfolio filter - Easy sharing of idea spaces and bubble charts as image or PDF documents - Clean and at the same time highly visual user experience - Built-in support for accessibility - Seamless syncing via iCloud Get Ideafall and focus your creativity!

Screenshots

When4 screens
Ideafall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: When at $9.99 against Ideafall's $29.99. When also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Ideafall's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

When costs $9.99 and Ideafall $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for When against 5.0 for Ideafall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of When's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ideafall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

When ships an update every 3 weeks, Ideafall every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
When versus Ideafall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhenIdeafall
Price$9.99 — better$29.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMikhail SolomonovElemental Tools GmbH

Customer experience

When

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative15.0%

Ideafall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

When

No in-app purchases

None

Ideafall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is When free?
When costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ideafall free?
Ideafall costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, When or Ideafall?
When and Ideafall are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do When or Ideafall have ads?
Neither When nor Ideafall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, When or Ideafall?
When ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ideafall every 4 months. Most recently, When was updated on September 21, 2026 and Ideafall on August 18, 2026.

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