Facades vs Thoughts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facades
Discover and explore retail store histories with this comprehensive field guide. Browse a catalog of over 500 locations, track your visits, and learn about store renovations and closures. Features include detailed timelines and shareable visit receipts.
- Browse and search 500+ store locations
- Track visited stores
- Explore store history and timelines
- Discover store renovations and closures
- Create and share custom store lists
- Find nearby stores with shortcuts
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Facades is a field guide to your favorite retail stores. Browse and search a catalog of more than 500 locations. Track which stores you’ve visited. Store Catalog: Facades includes a comprehensive directory of every official store opened since May 19, 2001. Browse & Search: Quickly sort stores with convenient categories. Browse store design styles and features. Search by name, location, year, or rollout number. Discover which stores have moved, renovated, closed, or been renamed. Timeline: Explore the history of any store with detailed documentation of notable events and grand opening information. Visit Receipts: Track which stores you’ve visited and share visit receipts to celebrate your accomplishments. Lists: Bookmark your favorite stores for quick reference or build custom lists to share with a friend. Shortcuts: Find nearby stores and search for any location with app shortcuts accessible from the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro. Facades is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Thoughts
A personal inspiration manager to save, organize, and review quotes, thoughts, and more. Discover curated content, create artwork from your inspirations, and access everything across devices with iCloud sync. Features text recognition and Siri support for quick additions.
- Save and organize inspirations
- Personalized feed for review
- Curated stories in Discover tab
- Home Screen widgets
- iCloud sync across devices
- Text recognition for quick input
- Create artwork from inspirations
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Save, organize, and rediscover what inspires you with Thoughts: a home for the inspirations you want to remind yourself of. Collect quotes, book highlights, your own thoughts, and more. Rediscover them through widgets, daily reminder notifications, and during in-app review. Add your own notes to build a log of reflections. Organize your library with powerful management features. Access your library on all your devices with iCloud sync. Add new inspirations quickly with text recognition, Siri and Shortcuts support. Create beautiful artworks from your Inspirations and share them with friends and family, or save them to your photo library. Elevate yourself, be inspired, and grow with Thoughts. Get it now, free to download! Certain features are not available on all iOS versions and devices. Privacy Policy: https://privacy.thoughts-app.com Terms of Use (EULA): http://terms.thoughts-app.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Facades at none against Thoughts's 3. Facades also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (96% vs 85%). Thoughts's advantage is ratings volume (274 vs 77). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Thoughts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Facades asks for nothing beyond the download.
Facades holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 274 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Facades's written reviews are positive against 85% of Thoughts's.
Facades ships an update monthly, Thoughts every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Facades | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (77 ratings) — better | 4.7 (274 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 85.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 274 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Steeber | Henri Bredt |
Customer experience
Facades
Thoughts
Bugs and requests
Facades
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Thoughts
Reported bugs
2 issues- Issues with the randomization of quotes in the widget
- Inconsistent behavior when swiping away images in the documentation
Requested features
5 requests- Add more metadata fields for quotes (e.g., source, page number)
- Implement a comprehensive search feature
- Develop a macOS version of the app
- Allow more customization options for widgets and UI
- Add password protection or locking for private notes
In-app purchases
Facades
No in-app purchases
Thoughts
- Pro monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro yearly1 Month trial$14.991 Year
- Pro lifetime$34.99
