Comparison

The Quantified Self vs Mindscope 2

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

Head to head
About

The Quantified Self

This app helps you manage recurring tasks and habits, prioritizing them by urgency, due date, or importance. It offers automation based on location or NFC tags, performance tracking, and workload adjustment. Organize habits into projects and review your past activities.

Highlights
  • Recurring task management
  • Habit tracking (good and bad)
  • Automation via location/NFC
  • Habit organization into projects
  • Performance tracking over time
  • Workload adjustment based on bandwidth
Features
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Manage your recurring tasks and your habits (good and bad), and see your intentions laid out by urgency, due date, or importance. You can also: - Automate your habits based on location, health, or NFC tags - Organize habits into projects - Track your performance over time - Right-size your habit workload by your available bandwidth - Peruse your timeline of past habits Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mindscope 2

Capture and organize your thoughts visually with a fluid mind-mapper and outliner. Create nested entries, link ideas, and export your work in various formats. Syncs across Apple devices and offers offline access.

Highlights
  • Free-form visual boards
  • Instant outlining and nesting
  • Multiple boards per project
  • Rich entry types (text, links, todos, notes)
  • Line and arrow connections
  • Smart Undo/Redo
  • Multiple export formats (OPML, PDF, PNG, HTML)
Features
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Mindscope 2 is the fastest way to capture your thoughts and keep them organized. A fluid, visual mind-mapper and outliner in one, built entirely with SwiftUI and running on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple Watch. Create entries to capture your thoughts anywhere on a simple and elegant free-form text canvas, drag them around, and tap to zoom into an entry to enter its own space to add sub-entries, for as many levels as you want. Use the "breadcrumb bar", or a quick pinch gesture to jump up a level. Some highlights: • Free-form visual boards with smooth, speefy navigation. • Instant outlining. Drag your entries to reorder, nest, and shape ideas. • Multiple boards for different projects. Entries saved where you want them. • Entry types: text, links (including deep links to other apps!), todos, and long-form notes. • Drag open a selection rectangle for moving and styling multiple entries at once. Long-press for context menus. • Draw lines and arrows between entries. Customize arrowheads. • Smart Undo/Redo of your changes. • Set bookmarks for quick access to key entries. • Lock entries you don’t want to move or enter into. • Rich styling: fonts, colors, backgrounds, rotations. Preserved in exports. • Reminders on any entry: one-time or repeating. Notifications will then pop up which take you straight to the item. • Multi-window support on iPad and Mac. Full keyboard shortcuts and native menus. • iCloud (CloudKit) sync. Work offline and catch up later. • Intelligent paste with local Apple Intelligence: automatically summarize pasted text into tidy, titled bullet hierarchies. • Instant global search across all your entries. • Gorgeous liquid glass UI. Exporting makes sure you retain complete control of your data: • Mindscope archive (.mindscope2) • OPML (supported by most mind-mapping apps) • Bullet-list text • PDF (multi-page optional) • PNG (per board) • Interactive single-file HTML export that mirrors the real app, complete with navigation, styling, lines, and todos, and works offline in any browser. Importing works too. Open .mindscope2 files into new top-level boards, or bring in OPML with formatting, positions, metadata, and line connections preserved. Mindscope 2 is completely free to use with all the way up to 200 entries and 2 boards. All features, all export options, all syncing included. When you get close to the limits, you’ll see gentle upgrade prompts to get the Pro version either as a subscription or a one-time purchase. Mindscope Pro unlocks unlimited boards and entries and there is a 14-day trial as well for the monthly/yearly plans. Early adopters get the low prices locked in. Apple Watch app included for a synced, streamlined list view on the wrist. I made Mindscope 2 for my own usage, with my primary focus being speed and focus, for getting thoughts out of my head, organized, and easily accessible later. Try it for free and see if your brain doesn't feel just a bit lighter after using it a bit. (EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula)

Screenshots

The Quantified Self3 screens
Mindscope 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mindscope 2 at 50% against The Quantified Self's 0%. Mindscope 2 also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). The Quantified Self's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. The Quantified Self sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mindscope 2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Quantified Self ships an update every 7 months, Mindscope 2 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Quantified Self versus Mindscope 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Quantified SelfMindscope 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared Clifton-LeeJohn Goering

Customer experience

The Quantified Self

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Mindscope 2

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

The Quantified Self

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Quarterly$5.493 Months
  • Pro Biannual$10.496 Months
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  • Pro Yearly$20.491 Year
3 purchases

Mindscope 2

Subscriptions2
  • Mindscope Pro Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Mindscope Pro Yearly14 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mindscope Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is The Quantified Self free?
The Quantified Self is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mindscope 2 free?
Mindscope 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Quantified Self or Mindscope 2 have ads?
Neither The Quantified Self nor Mindscope 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Quantified Self or Mindscope 2?
The Quantified Self ships an update every 7 months, and Mindscope 2 every 3 weeks. Most recently, The Quantified Self was updated on October 4, 2026 and Mindscope 2 on October 5, 2026.

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