Comparison

Napkin Ideas vs Steadily.me

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

Head to head
About

Napkin Ideas

Capture and organize your thoughts with an AI-powered assistant that connects related ideas. Generate inspiring thought flows for reflection and personal growth. This app helps you focus on your best ideas.

Highlights
  • Easy idea collection
  • AI-powered idea connection
  • Inspiring thought flows
  • Personalized reflection
  • Focus on best ideas
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Easily collect the best quotes and ideas you come across and keep them in focus. Personally curated flows connect your ideas into inspiring short playlists of reflection. Let your best ideas shape your mind. We are a small, independent company. You'll need a subscription to use Napkin. Thanks a lot for your support!

About

Steadily.me

Features
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Steadily is a habit tracker built around a simple idea: win the week, not every day. Perfect days are hard to repeat. Good weeks are different. Set a goal like work out three times a week, read twice, or meditate once. Any day can count. A busy Tuesday does not break anything. Miss a morning and there is still plenty of week left. The goal is not to be perfect today. It is to do enough, often enough, that the habit has a place in your life fifty-two weeks from now. ALWAYS IN SIGHT Steadily is meant to stay somewhere you can see it. Leave it open on a table, a shelf, an old tablet in the kitchen, or a spare phone on your desk. Walk past, notice the habits you care about, and tap when you do one. There is no alarm telling you to do something at 3:00 PM. No notification to swipe away and forget ten seconds later. The reminder works because the habit is simply there, in a place you naturally look during your day. A LIVING PAINTING OF YOUR YEAR Your whole year stays on screen as a field of watercolor dots. Each week you reach your goal, another week dries green. Over time, the little marks become a picture of how the year is actually going. Fifty-two weeks tell a more useful story than one missed day ever could. You can glance at the year and think, "I'm doing pretty well." Or notice a rough patch and decide to give a habit more attention. Sometimes you realize the goal never fit your life in the first place, and change it. The pattern matters more than any single dot. REST WEEKS, BECAUSE LIFE HAPPENS Sick? Traveling? Injured? Life sometimes needs the week more than your habits do. Mark it as a rest week and it will not count against your year. A rest week means, "I'm not quitting. I just can't do this right now." When the next week arrives, the habit is still there waiting for you. No guilt required. GENTLE BY DESIGN No daily streaks to lose. No badges. No guilt trips. No little tricks trying to pull you back into the app. I built Steadily after repeatedly abandoning habit trackers myself. What I wanted was something calm enough to live with every day, and useful enough to keep using long after the excitement of starting a new habit wore off. It is also meant to be nice to have around. The screen feels more like a watercolor painting than a dashboard, so leaving it visible in your home does not feel like leaving a productivity app open all day. AT HOME ON SCREENS YOU ALREADY OWN Steadily works on the screens you already have around. Put an old iPad by the door, leave a spare phone on your desk, or keep it on the iPhone in your pocket. No new hardware required. The painting changes with the light of the day, brightening in the morning and settling into calm, darker tones at night, so it feels at home in the room instead of glowing against it. ALSO IN THE BOX • Tap any day to log it - the week is what counts • Starter habits to get going in seconds • Day-cycle, light, and dark themes • A choice of living watercolor backgrounds • Optional account and sync across your devices • Export your year as a painting worth keeping Keep the things you care about in sight - and win the week, steadily. Privacy Policy: https://steadily.me/privacy Terms of Use: https://steadily.me/terms Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Napkin Ideas4 screens
Steadily.me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Napkin Ideas at none against Steadily.me's shown. Steadily.me's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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. Napkin Ideas sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month and Steadily.me 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

Napkin Ideas ships an update every 9 days, Steadily.me every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Napkin Ideas versus Steadily.me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNapkin IdeasSteadily.me
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNapkin GmbHReality Moss

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Napkin Ideas

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly1 Month trial$3.001 Month
  • All features - paid monthly1 Month trial$5.001 Month
  • Yearly1 Month trial$30.001 Year
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  • All features - paid yearly1 Month trial$40.001 Year
3 purchases

Steadily.me

Subscriptions2
  • Steadily Pro1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Steadily Pro1 Month trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Steadily Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Napkin Ideas free?
Napkin Ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steadily.me free?
Steadily.me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Napkin Ideas or Steadily.me have ads?
Steadily.me shows ads; Napkin Ideas does not.
Which is updated more often, Napkin Ideas or Steadily.me?
Napkin Ideas ships an update every 9 days, and Steadily.me every 8 days. Most recently, Napkin Ideas was updated on November 3, 2026 and Steadily.me on October 29, 2026.

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