Comparison

Wait Menu vs Prism Notes

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

Head to head
About

Wait Menu

Track upcoming events with a simple, lightweight countdown app. See remaining time in days, hours, and minutes, and get notified before events start. Integrates with your system calendar and syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • System calendar integration
  • Customizable notifications
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
  • Dark Mode support
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Track the time remaining until your upcoming events with a simple, lightweight app designed to match the native system experience. Wait Menu helps you stay focused on what’s coming next by showing exactly how much time is left - down to the days, hours, and minutes. See your events at a glance with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Enable notifications to get notified when an event starts, with optional early reminders. Connect your system calendar to import existing events or add new ones directly. Choose which calendar to use and keep everything in sync. Designed with simplicity in mind, Wait Menu offers a distraction-free interface that matches native system design language. Dark Mode ensures a sleek look day or night, while iCloud sync keeps your events up to date across all your devices. Enjoy the waiting!

About

Prism Notes

Capture thoughts and links quickly with a familiar texting interface. Organize ideas with AI-suggested tags and develop them across linked threads. Review notes to keep what matters and easily search by keyword or meaning.

Highlights
  • Texting-like note capture
  • AI-suggested tags
  • Threaded idea development
  • Review mode for notes
  • Sync across devices
  • Natural language reminders
  • Lock screen capture
Features
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Prism is the private place for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free to try! Features: - Private and on-device - Opt in to iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac - Voice transcription and voice memos - Lock screen widgets for text and voice capture - AI-suggested tags to make organizing easy or automatic AI tagging (requires apple intelligence) - Review mode to keep notes alive or let them go - Threads to evolve a thought and link them together - Search by keyword - Natural language reminders - just say "remind me tomorrow at 2pm" (requires apple intelligence)

Screenshots

Wait Menu4 screens
Prism Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prism Notes at Free against Wait Menu's $1.99. Prism Notes also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Wait Menu's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Prism Notes is free to download; Wait Menu costs $1.99 up front. Prism Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Wait Menu asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wait Menu against 4.9 for Prism Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prism Notes has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wait Menu ships an update every 10 days, Prism Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wait Menu versus Prism Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWait MenuPrism Notes
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings132 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.6
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacek GlazikTommy Joseph

Customer experience

Wait Menu

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Prism Notes

All ratings30 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Wait Menu

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Prism Notes

One-time2
  • Lifetime Unlock$6.99
  • Lifetime Unlock$12.99

Questions

Is Wait Menu free?
Wait Menu costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prism Notes free?
Prism Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wait Menu or Prism Notes?
Wait Menu is rated higher. Wait Menu averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Prism Notes averages 4.9 from 32 ratings.
Do Wait Menu or Prism Notes have ads?
Neither Wait Menu nor Prism Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wait Menu or Prism Notes?
Wait Menu ships an update every 10 days, and Prism Notes every 4 days. Most recently, Wait Menu was updated on October 8, 2026 and Prism Notes on October 13, 2026.

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