Simple Notes vs Mindrafts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Notes
A powerful yet simple note-taking application offering cross-device syncing, customizable themes, and robust security features. It allows users to set reminders, highlight text, and even save notes as images.
- Cross-device syncing (Dropbox/iCloud)
- Zoomable font sizes
- Searchable highlighted text
- Note reminders
- Password protection (AES 256-bit)
- Shake to undo/redo
- Customizable themes and fonts
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Simple, Clean and Easy to Use, Yet Powerful and Loaded with Features. Key Features: --------------------- - One universal app for all your IOS Devices. - Sync your notes with Dropbox and/or iCloud. - Zoom in or out on any note to get the ideal font size suitable for your vision. - Highlight words and search terms inside your notes. - Set reminders to your notes to read them later. - Save text as an image to your camera roll. - Use Password Protection with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 256-bit) to secure data and to protect your notes from prying eyes. - Shake your device to undo or redo: delete, creating, editing, restoring and more. - 9 font styles with five font colors. - Sort your notes chronologically or alphabetically. - Choose from six different color themes to modify your notes to suit your taste. - The ability to AirPrint your notes. - Auto Paste: when you run the app it will save text that you copied (Text in the Clipboard) automatically as a note. - Night Mode that makes reading in the dark easier on your eyes. - And much more..
Mindrafts
This privacy-focused note-taking app offers an on-device AI assistant for offline writing improvements, summarization, and analysis. It features a rich editor supporting Rich Text and Markdown, with robust organization and export options.
- On-device AI assistant (MindChat)
- Offline AI processing
- Rich Text and Markdown editor
- Note organization (notebooks, tags)
- Import/Export (Markdown, HTML, ZIP)
- Privacy-focused, no tracking
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Mindrafts is a flexible, and privacy-focused note-taking app built with a true local-first design. The app includes an on-device AI (LLM) that runs entirely offline. All data and AI processing stay on your device, with no uploads, no accounts, no syncing, and no tracking. The local AI assistant, MindChat, works without an internet connection. It can improve writing clarity, correct grammar, expand or shorten paragraphs, summarize documents, extract key points, and analyze the content of selected notes. You can get fast, reliable AI assistance anytime, even in airplane mode or with no signal. Mindrafts provides a powerful editor that supports both Rich Text and Markdown. You can create headings, lists, to-dos, code blocks, quotes, formulas, images, and more, making it easy to capture ideas, tasks, writing, and study notes. Notes can be organized using notebooks and tags. You can search titles and content, pin important notes, sort your notes. The mobile experience is designed to be simple and intuitive. Swipe right to open the sidebar, long-press a note for quick actions, and tap the title to add icons or tags. Mindrafts supports importing Markdown, HTML, and ZIP files, and exporting to Markdown, HTML, and TXT. You can also export all notes at once as a ZIP file for backup or migration. If you encounter issues or have suggestions, feel free to email us at mindrafts.ai@gmail.com . Your feedback helps us continue improving the experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mindrafts at Free against Simple Notes's $2.99. Mindrafts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Simple Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (39 vs 1). On ads 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
Mindrafts is free to download; Simple Notes costs $2.99 up front. Mindrafts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Simple Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mindrafts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Notes has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Simple Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mindrafts's.
Simple Notes ships an update every 2 months, Mindrafts weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Notes | Mindrafts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 512 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sadah Software Solutions, LLC | Shan Chengliang |
Customer experience
Simple Notes
Mindrafts
In-app purchases
Simple Notes
No in-app purchases
Mindrafts
- Mindrafts Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Mindrafts Pro - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year









