Comparison

Writing Challenge vs Danger Notes

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

Head to head
About

Writing Challenge

Overcome writer's block with creative story prompts. Generate new ideas, embrace freewriting, and build a consistent writing habit. Perfect for aspiring authors and creative individuals seeking inspiration.

Highlights
  • Tap for new story prompts
  • Customizable prompt settings
  • Daily writing challenges
  • Home screen widgets for challenges
  • Share challenges with others
  • Freewriting exercises
Features
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Stuck in front of a blank page? Need a boost of inspiration? Join us to overcome blocks and push your creativity to the max. With Writing Challenge, you will brainstorm new and fresh ideas and embrace freewriting in the funniest way ever. *** TAP AND SPARK *** · Get new prompts to start writing your story with just a touch on your screen. · Pick the prompts that better suit you from our mix of trigger words, characters, actions, settings, sentences, items, and dialogue. · Take control of your experience with the prompt settings. · Set the number of prompts for each writing session to get an ending for your story. · Add a timer between prompts if you wish for an extra challenge. *** THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX *** · Check the Daily Challenge Prompts that encourage you to create original stories and keep the writing habit alive. · Get the Daily Challenge on your home screen with the app widgets. · Mark the challenge as completed for a more engaging experience. · Schedule up the reminder to keep up the challenge every day. *** SHARE YOUR CREATIVITY *** · Share the Daily Challenges with friends and colleagues. · Increase fun & engagement in your writing classes, workshops, and writing group sessions. Whether you are a writer looking for ideas or just want to have fun, this app will help you out. Dare yourself to experience freewriting, and express your creativity without restrictions. —— —— ——  *** DOUBTS? *** Please visit the site writingchallengeapp.com for more information. You can also contact us via info@liternauts.com. We are happily awaiting your feedback and will get back to you! Thank you, and happy writing!

About

Danger Notes

This app is designed to combat writer's block by requiring continuous typing to save your work. If you stop typing, all unsaved progress is permanently deleted, encouraging a consistent writing flow.

Highlights
  • Continuous typing required to save
  • Work deleted if typing stops
  • Fights writer's block
  • Encourages writing flow
  • Suitable for essays, books, and lyrics
Features
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Don’t stop typing. If you do, all your work will disappear and be gone forever. Danger Notes is the ultimate writing tool to help fight writer’s block. Whether you are writing a term paper, an essay, a book, your best-man speech, promising rap lyrics or just free writing, Danger Notes will help you fight writer’s block by forcing you to keep writing in order to save your progress from being deleted. The theory behind this wonderful writing tool, is that by pressuring you to keep writing, you will be forced to formulate an actual flow of written work instead of just staring at a blank document for 2 hours with no progress to show for. The more words you type the easier it will be to break past your writer's block and keep typing. Break writer's block with Danger Notes.

Screenshots

Writing Challenge4 screens
Danger Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Danger Notes at Free against Writing Challenge's $2.99. Danger Notes also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 50%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). Writing Challenge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Danger Notes is free to download; Writing Challenge costs $2.99 up front. Danger Notes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Writing Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Danger Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Danger Notes has 2.3K ratings behind it against 59, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Writing Challenge's written reviews are positive against 84% of Danger Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writing Challenge ships an update every 6 weeks, Danger Notes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Writing Challenge versus Danger Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting ChallengeDanger Notes
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (59 ratings)4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews83.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings592.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBartolome Masco LopezVillegas Ventures LLC

Customer experience

Writing Challenge

All ratings59 ratings
Positive84.7%
Neutral5.1%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral9.4%
Negative40.6%

Danger Notes

All ratings2,289 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive83.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative8.5%

Bugs and requests

Writing Challenge

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Danger Notes

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Accidental deletion of work
  • Overlapping text when reaching page limit
  • Glitches after updating to iOS 16

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add writing prompts
  • Implement a pause/resume function
  • Provide formatting options
  • Allow setting word count goals
  • Add a way to export or share written work
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  • Offer a desktop version
  • Implement a daily writing reminder

In-app purchases

None

Writing Challenge

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Danger Notes

One-time5
  • Support Danger Notes via a Tip$0.99
  • Support Danger Notes via a Tip$1.99
  • Support Danger Notes via a Tip$2.99
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  • Support Danger Notes via a Tip$3.99
  • Buy Me Coffee$4.99

Questions

Is Writing Challenge free?
Writing Challenge costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Danger Notes free?
Danger Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Writing Challenge or Danger Notes?
Danger Notes is rated higher. Writing Challenge averages 4.4 out of 5 from 59 ratings, while Danger Notes averages 4.8 from 2.3K ratings.
Do Writing Challenge or Danger Notes have ads?
Danger Notes shows ads; Writing Challenge does not.
Which is updated more often, Writing Challenge or Danger Notes?
Writing Challenge ships an update every 6 weeks, and Danger Notes every 10 days. Most recently, Writing Challenge was updated on October 18, 2026 and Danger Notes on October 17, 2026.

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