ThoughtTrails vs Brain Dump
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ThoughtTrails
Capture ideas with voice recordings and transform them into concise summaries. This app helps you organize your thoughts, revisit past musings, and uses AI prompts to deepen your insights and foster creativity.
- Voice recording for quick idea capture
- AI-powered summarization of recordings
- AI-generated reflection prompts
- Organized storage for revisiting thoughts
- Creativity and thought development tools
- Access inspiration anywhere
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ThoughtTrails is a fun, innovative app for capturing, organizing, and developing your thoughts. Quickly log ideas with voice recordings, and let our advanced tech turn them into concise summaries. Revisit and build on your musings easily. Spark creativity with ThoughtTrails! Features: - Voice Recording: Quickly log ideas and thoughts on the go. - Advanced Summarization: Get concise summaries of your recordings. - Reflection Prompts: AI-generated questions to deepen your insights. - Idea Organization: Easily revisit and build upon previous entries. - Creativity Booster: Structured way to foster creativity and thought development. - Anywhere Access: Capture inspiration wherever it strikes.
Brain Dump
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Capture anything with your voice. Grain handles the rest. Speak naturally - Grain's AI listens, understands, and turns your words into the right thing. One recording becomes a todo, a reminder, a note, or all three at once. SPEAK. DONE. • Say "buy milk and call Dan at 5pm" → todo + timed reminder, automatically • Brain dump your morning thoughts → organized notes with tags • "Save Atomic Habits by James Clear" → saved to your library AI THAT ORGANIZES FOR YOU • Your voice becomes todos, reminders, notes & library items automatically • Related items grouped together • No folders, no manual sorting - just talk CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE • Lock screen widget - one tap to record • Control Center action - no app launch needed • Home screen widgets - see your day at a glance • Type it if you prefer - text input always available YOUR DAY, ONE SCREEN • Today view: todos, upcoming reminders, pinned notes • Complete tasks with a tap • Your reading list, built by voice PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Audio deleted after processing • No ads, no data selling Try Grain free for 7 days. Then $4.99/month or $44.99/year for unlimited access. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
ThoughtTrails and Brain Dump are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ThoughtTrails sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Brain Dump sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ThoughtTrails | Brain Dump |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Polimati LLC | Yarden Sagi |
In-app purchases
ThoughtTrails
- Monthly$12.991 Month
- Yearly$154.991 Year
Brain Dump
- Grain Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Grain Pro Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
