Comparison

YourMind vs Garden

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

Head to head
About

YourMind

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YourMind is a mind mapping application specially optimized for mobile environments. With this app, you can utilize it for various purposes such as organizing ideas, planning, and visualizing information. Through a card-based approach, you can visually structure your own ideas and concepts. You can write down the ideas that come to your mind on simple cards and arrange them as you wish, making the relationships between ideas clear. This app offers a range of features to support your creativity and idea development. For instance, you can decorate cards using various colors and icons, and you can enhance your ideas by attaching not only text but also images and links. In essence, YourMind is a powerful tool that assists in effectively capturing and advancing your creative thoughts. With an easily accessible interface and diverse features, you can efficiently manage and visualize your ideas. * Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ * Privacy Policy https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/yourmind-privacy-policy/774c3036-c2ef-4f17-9ea7-85b55f69b2c0/privacy

About

Garden

This app offers a minimalist approach to note-taking and mindfulness. It features quick note capture, a single daily task reminder, and a calming visual experience to encourage presence and reduce digital distraction.

Highlights
  • Quick-capture notes with custom categories
  • Single daily task checkbox with confetti reward
  • Calming wheat field visualization
  • No notifications or streaks
  • Offline note storage
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Markdown export
Features
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Garden is a quiet iPhone app for presence and clarity. It does three things, and only three things: — Quick-capture notes, organized by the categories you create. A grocery list, a half-formed thought, a thing your kid said, an idea for a side project. Pick a category, type, hit add. — A single daily checkbox: "I did the one thing today." When you check it, you get a small burst of confetti, a soft haptic, and permission to put your phone down. — A wheat field on the Calm tab. Eighty blades, gently swaying. Watch it for ten seconds and remember why any of this matters. That is the whole app. What Garden won't do • No notifications. Garden never asks for your attention. • No streaks. No "you're on a 7-day roll." Streaks are anxiety machines dressed as motivation. • No badges, red dots, or "come back" prompts. • No social features. Garden is yours. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to share it. • No accounts, no tracking, no telemetry. Sign in to iCloud and that's it. Where your notes live • On your iPhone, in a real local database — works offline, persists through restarts. • In your iCloud, synced automatically across your signed-in Apple devices. • Available as a markdown file you can export anytime, to anywhere — Files, iCloud Drive, email, AirDrop. A portable copy you own outright. Three layers, each protecting against a different way you might lose them. None of them ours. Designed for fewer minutes, not more Garden is built on the belief that the best phone app is the one you can put down. The aesthetic is calm: cream paper, sage ink, an Instrument Serif word here and there. Spring animations that feel hand-tuned. Haptics on the moments that matter. No dopamine loops. If you check the one thing and close the app, Garden has done its job. Privacy Garden does not collect, transmit, or sell any data. Your notes sync only through your own iCloud account. Garden has no servers, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. The privacy nutrition label says "Data Not Collected" because nothing is collected. Read more in the Settings tab and at the privacy URL below. For who Garden is a personal tool. It was built for one person and is shared with friends. Made with care, on iPhone, with SwiftUI and SwiftData.

Screenshots

YourMind4 screens
Garden1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garden at none against YourMind's 2. Garden also leads on ads (none vs shown). YourMind's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

Both are free to download. YourMind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Garden asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YourMind ships an update every 3 days, Garden weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
YourMind versus Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYourMindGarden
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJong Hyuk ParkChad Stewart

In-app purchases

2 purchases

YourMind

Subscriptions2
  • monthly$0.991 Month
  • annual$7.991 Year
None

Garden

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YourMind free?
YourMind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Garden free?
Garden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do YourMind or Garden have ads?
YourMind shows ads; Garden does not.
Which is updated more often, YourMind or Garden?
YourMind ships an update every 3 days, and Garden weekly. Most recently, YourMind was updated on November 7, 2026 and Garden on October 31, 2026.

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