Dear Me. vs Lightnote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dear Me.
A digital journal designed for children with chronic illnesses. It offers prompts to encourage gratitude and positivity while acknowledging reality, serving as a supportive outlet.
- Digital journaling
- Prompts for gratitude
- Positive reinforcement
- Supportive outlet
- Kid-friendly design
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Dear Me The App is a simplistic, digital journal, for kids with chronic illnesses. We hope that this app will be an outlet for these kids, while still providing positivity. The prompts are designed to stimulate gratitude, while not avoiding the reality.
Lightnote
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Your notes are full of brilliant ideas. But you'll never see most of them again. Lightnote is an AI notebook that reads your brain dumps and pushes the right ideas back to you—exactly when you need them. Wake up to personalized insights drawn from everything you've written. No folders. No search. Just thoughts that actually come back to life. ____ THE PROBLEM WITH NOTES You capture ideas to remember them. But most notes become digital clutter. They pile up in folders you'll never open again. The issue isn't that you forget to take notes. It's that your notes forget to find you. ____ HOW LIGHTNOTE WORKS 1. BRAIN DUMP FREELY Write anything: startup ideas, shower thoughts, work notes, feelings. No tags. No organizing. Just capture. 2. AI CONNECTS THE DOTS Every night, Lightnote reads your entries and finds hidden patterns. It links related ideas across days, weeks, and months. 3. WAKE UP TO INSIGHTS Get a Daily Recap of personalized cards that surface: - Forgotten ideas relevant to today - Patterns emerging in your thinking - Questions that push you forward ____ BUILT FOR REAL BRAINS • ADHD-Friendly: Capture chaos, get clarity back • No Guilt: Don't write every day. It still works • Zero Organizing: Never file another note • Smart Memory: Connects past ideas to present focus • Private: Your thoughts stay encrypted and yours ____ THE LIGHTNOTE DIFFERENCE THE OLD WAY (Standard Notes) • Notes pile up unused • You spend hours organizing folders • You forget what you wrote weeks ago • Your best ideas get lost in the noise THE LIGHTNOTE WAY • Notes push you forward automatically • Zero organization required • AI surfaces old ideas when relevant • Your mess turns into daily insights ____ FEATURES - Distraction-free capture interface - AI-powered Daily Recap every morning - Automatic connections between related thoughts - Import from Apple Notes, Google Keep [Soon] - Private, encrypted storage - Works even if you skip days ____ START THINKING IN SYSTEMS Most apps make you work to retrieve your ideas. Lightnote does the work for you. Brain dump anything. Let your notes think back. Download now and start building their second brain. ____ Terms: https://lightnote.ink/terms Privacy: https://lightnote.ink/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lightnote at every 9 days against Dear Me.'s every 4 months. Dear Me.'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dear Me. ships an update every 4 months, Lightnote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dear Me. | Lightnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohini Soni | Farid Asadi |
In-app purchases
Dear Me.
No in-app purchases
Lightnote
No in-app purchases









