Comparison

Funnel vs Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI

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

Head to head
About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI

Transform loose thoughts into structured plans and visualize them with AI-powered mind maps. This tool helps you go from ideation to execution by identifying key concepts, suggesting actionable tasks, and providing live research.

Highlights
  • Prompt-first brainstorming interface
  • AI-powered key concept identification
  • Actionable task suggestions
  • Editable mind map visualization
  • Live web research
  • Sync with Apple Reminders
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
Features
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Bring your ideas to life with Brainstorm/AI - the intelligent brainstorming tool that helps you think, plan, and achieve. Whether you’re solving a problem, launching a project, or exploring something new, Brainstorm/AI transforms loose thoughts into structured plans - and keeps everything connected. Start with a simple prompt. As you brainstorm, Brainstorm/AI highlights your most important ideas as Key Concepts, turns them into actionable tasks, and can build a Mind Map to help you visualize and explore your thinking. Mind Maps stay linked to your sessions, giving you a living knowledge base that evolves with your ideas and provides instant context every time you return. Built on advanced AI, Brainstorm/AI helps you go from ideation to execution - faster, clearer, and more creatively than ever. Features: - Prompt-first interface to kickstart your brainstorming - AI-powered Key Concepts tailored to your goals - Upvote/downvote feedback to sharpen your focus - Guided questions to clarify your thinking - Actionable task suggestions for every idea - Visualize your ideas with editable Mind Maps - Attach Mind Maps to any brainstorming session - Live Research with up-to-date web results - Memory that carries your best ideas forward - Sync tasks directly to Apple Reminders - Use Siri or Shortcuts to capture thoughts anytime With Brainstorm/AI, you don’t just come up with ideas - you bring them to life. --- *Brainstorm/AI depends on third party AI services to offer its features, and requires a subscription or in-app purchase. Trials may be available. Privacy Policy: https://brainstormai.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Funnel4 screens
Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Funnel at none against Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI's shown. Funnel also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (43 vs 5). Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Funnel holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Funnel has 43 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Funnel's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Funnel versus Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunnelMind Map with Brainstorm/AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (43 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB67 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperNoteSight Labs ApSCoreBits LLC

Customer experience

Funnel

All ratings43 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
7 purchases

Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Annual Subscription$11.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Bring Your Own API Key$19.99

Questions

Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI free?
Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Funnel or Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI?
Funnel is rated higher. Funnel averages 4.6 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Funnel or Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI have ads?
Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI shows ads; Funnel does not.
Which is updated more often, Funnel or Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI?
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, and Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI every 2 months. Most recently, Funnel was updated on October 15, 2026 and Mind Map with Brainstorm/AI on October 14, 2026.

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