Comparison

Minimalist Notes vs Memolet Garden

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

Head to head
About

Minimalist Notes

This app offers a streamlined writing experience, acting as a digital notebook for capturing ideas, journaling, or quick notes. It focuses on a minimalist interface and efficient capture methods, with advanced search and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Quick idea capture
  • Continuous writing flow
  • Advanced search with tags
  • iCloud sync
  • Offline functionality
  • Voice dictation
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Bloom is a simple, elegant notes app built for one thing: writing. No folders, no menus to dig through, no learning curve. Open the app and write. Personal notebook, journal, or quick scratchpad — it all lives in one continuous flow. Just like a good old paper notebook. Inspired by the GTD method (Getting Things Done), Bloom helps you get everything out of your head, so you forget nothing and stay focused on what matters. ► CAPTURE IDEAS THE MOMENT THEY HIT The best ideas show up anywhere, anytime. Bloom is built to catch every one: - Write from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or the Action Button - Create a note in a single tap with Home Screen widgets - Save text from any app with the share extension - No time to type? Speak, and Bloom transcribes. Everything is processed locally, on your iPhone. ► EVERYTHING IN ONE NOTEBOOK Advanced search lets you combine tags and text. Find what you're looking for in seconds — no nested folders to manage. ► MADE FOR DAILY WRITING Minimalist interface, dark mode, automatic link detection — Bloom gets out of the way so writing stays front and center. Perfect for journaling, morning pages, or simply clearing your head. ► YOUR NOTES, EVERYWHERE iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, works offline, no account required. Your data stays in your iCloud. ► BLOOM PRO Tags, private notes, iPad sync, voice dictation, and every future Pro feature. Download Bloom and start writing today. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Memolet Garden

Features
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Memolet Garden (memoniwa) is a cute notes app: every memo you write becomes a little creature, a Memolet, that lives in your garden. Shopping lists, to-do lists, reminders. Each memo adds one more Memolet to the garden. Memolets live in the Memolet Garden. ■ Write, and one is born Write a memo and an egg appears in your garden. Reread and add to it, and it hatches; the more you write, the more your Memolet grows. Shopping lists and checklists become winged Sky Memolets. Notes and ideas become Land Memolets that walk on the ground. Depending on what you write, they grow into all kinds of shapes. ■ A shopping list is one creature, too Check items off with one tap, and add things you often buy right from Regulars. Even the family's grocery run becomes one creature in your garden. ■ It remembers the time and the place Tell a Memolet "When?" and it comes to remind you then. Tell it "Where?" and it also lets you know when you get near the store. ■ Whistle, and they come running No folders. No tidying up. Looking for something? Blow the Whistle (search), and the matching Memolets come running to you. ■ Free to use Unlimited memos, search, reminders and shopping lists — all free. Making or joining a Shared Garden is free too. In-app purchases: one-time items such as garden decorations and Memolet outfits, plus two optional subscriptions (keeping a backup on our server and syncing / extending the day a Shared Garden disappears). When you save to the server and sync, devices that share the same passphrase keep the same memos. ■ Memos and photos never get sent on their own Memos are saved only on your phone or tablet. No account needed. Memo content leaves the device only when you make a share card link, use a Shared Garden or keep a backup on our server. (With the setting "Include the title and text when sharing" on, opening a memo also creates such a link.) It is all encrypted on your device first, so not even we can read it (only the Memolet picture on share cards and readers' marks and counts are kept unencrypted). Photos are never sent. Other communication (in-app purchases, maps and so on) never contains your memos. Privacy policy: https://memoniwa.app/privacy/ ■ Shared Garden — for group notices and surveys Share a whole garden with others. Send an invite link, and people answer with their own Memolets (they need the app too). ・Ask who's coming or what people would like (Note / List) ・Have people pick the days they can make (Calendar) ・Vote Only the garden's maker can see the results. Even for a class or a team, making the garden bigger keeps it free. A garden disappears on the date its maker picks (free plan: up to 14 days ahead). ■ Plans go on the calendar Give a Memolet a date, and its label in the garden shows that day instead of its name. A single day or a span of days. It can become a reminder, too. ■ Pick what you copied, and paste Up to 20 things you copy in the app are kept, newest first. Pick one to paste later, or paste several lines one by one. Put the Memolets widget on your home screen to write right away and open your copy history. On iPhone (iOS 26 or later), paste from your copy history into other apps line by line or item by item via a small window (Picture in Picture). With the Memolets Keyboard on iPhone, put your copy history straight into other apps' text fields (no Full Access requested). Choose Memolets in another app's share menu to add to your copy history or make a Memolet from it. ■ The garden is your place Set out decorations, build fences, add more gardens. You can even put family photos in a photo frame. The more memos you write, the livelier your garden gets. ■ About generative AI Your memos and images are never sent to generative AI. It was used in parts of development (such as coding), with final review by people. -- Terms of Use: https://memoniwa.app/terms/ Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://memoniwa.app/support/

Screenshots

Minimalist Notes4 screens
Memolet Garden4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Minimalist Notes at none against Memolet Garden's shown. Memolet Garden's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Minimalist Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year and Memolet Garden sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minimalist Notes ships an update every 5 days, Memolet Garden every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Minimalist Notes versus Memolet Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimalist NotesMemolet Garden
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexandre Bantzasopi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Minimalist Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Bloom Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
10 purchases

Memolet Garden

Subscriptions4
  • サーバーに保存(月払い)$0.491 Month
  • 消える日をのばす(月払い)$0.991 Month
  • サーバーに保存(年払い)$5.991 Year
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  • 消える日をのばす(年払い)$11.991 Year
One-time6
  • おうかん・C$0.49
  • おうかん・E$0.49
  • おうかん・D$0.49
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  • ごうけいの黒板(5こ入り)$0.49
  • デジタルけいじばん(5こ入り)$0.49
  • 大きな写真たて(5こ入り)$0.99

Questions

Is Minimalist Notes free?
Minimalist Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memolet Garden free?
Memolet Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Minimalist Notes or Memolet Garden have ads?
Memolet Garden shows ads; Minimalist Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Minimalist Notes or Memolet Garden?
Minimalist Notes ships an update every 5 days, and Memolet Garden every 3 days. Most recently, Minimalist Notes was updated on October 13, 2026 and Memolet Garden on October 22, 2026.

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