Comparison

Wait Menu vs Fleeting Thoughts

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

Fleeting Thoughts

Capture thoughts privately with voice, text, scans, videos, and files in a unified timeline. Your data stays on your device or chosen cloud storage, with no accounts or tracking. Edit, tag, and export your notes easily.

Highlights
  • Unified timeline for voice, text, scans, video, and files
  • On-device transcription and Apple Intelligence cleanup
  • Private data storage (device, iCloud, or Files app)
  • Video trimming, reframing, and image cropping
  • Document scanning with text extraction
  • Tagging and filtering for organization
  • Markdown or JSON export options
Features
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Fleeting Thoughts is a private capture pipeline for the agentic era. Save ideas, notes, links, screenshots, scans, PDFs and voice thoughts the moment they appear, as plain files you control, ready for the notes apps, workflows and AI agents you choose. Use it when you want a fast private place to save something now and organize it later. Start with a quick voice note, paste text, share in a link, scan a page, import a file, or capture from Apple Watch. Everything lands in one clean timeline you control. - YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Every thought is saved as a plain, readable file, on your iPhone or in a folder you choose. Use those files with your notes app, your own database, your local agents or the AI assistant you prefer, or keep them just for yourself. Nothing requires an agent or a subscription, and your data stays yours whatever you use next. - CAPTURE FAST Tap the mic to record, type a note, paste from the clipboard, scan a page, import a photo or file, or share content into Fleeting Thoughts from other apps. - BUILT FOR THE MOMENT The app is designed for quick capture first. Save the thought, hear the confirmation, and move on. You can clean it up later. - TAGS THAT STAY SIMPLE Use lightweight tags to keep ideas, links, health notes, project thoughts, and other captures separated without turning capture into a filing task. - MEDIA THAT STAYS USEFUL Keep original images, scans, screenshots, videos, audio, and PDFs attached to the thought that created them. Preview, copy, share, export, trim, crop, or remove extra attachments when needed. - PDF READER COMPANION Open saved PDFs in a focused reader, resume where you left off, bookmark a page, save a page as an image, clip selected text, and add page notes back into the original thought. - APPLE WATCH CAPTURE Capture from your wrist when your phone is not in your hand. Watch recordings keep going while you use other apps, then arrive in your iPhone timeline, transcribed. - SEARCH AND EXPORT Search your timeline, copy individual thoughts, export selected groups, and use iPhone Spotlight to find saved thoughts from outside the app. - LOCAL-FIRST BY DEFAULT No account required. No tracking. Your captures stay private and local unless you choose to share or export them. You can also choose a folder for readable saved files. - ONE PURCHASE, EVERY PLATFORM Universal Purchase includes iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. Each app is designed for its own device: iPhone for capture on the go, Apple Watch for wrist capture, and Mac for desktop dictation. Fleeting Thoughts is for people who think faster than they can organize: builders, writers, researchers, students, and anyone who needs to save useful things before they disappear.

Screenshots

Wait Menu4 screens
Fleeting Thoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wait Menu at $1.99 against Fleeting Thoughts's $9.99. Wait Menu also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Fleeting Thoughts's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Wait Menu costs $1.99 and Fleeting Thoughts $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wait Menu against 5.0 for Fleeting Thoughts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fleeting Thoughts has 5 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, Fleeting Thoughts every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Wait Menu versus Fleeting Thoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWait MenuFleeting Thoughts
Price$1.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacek GlazikDylan Russell

Customer experience

Wait Menu

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

Fleeting Thoughts

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Wait Menu

No in-app purchases

None

Fleeting Thoughts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wait Menu free?
Wait Menu costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fleeting Thoughts free?
Fleeting Thoughts costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wait Menu or Fleeting Thoughts?
Wait Menu and Fleeting Thoughts are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Wait Menu or Fleeting Thoughts have ads?
Neither Wait Menu nor Fleeting Thoughts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wait Menu or Fleeting Thoughts?
Wait Menu ships an update every 10 days, and Fleeting Thoughts every 5 days. Most recently, Wait Menu was updated on October 8, 2026 and Fleeting Thoughts on October 1, 2026.

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