Comparison

Ripples vs Notepods

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

Head to head
About

Ripples

This app helps you build and maintain new habits and achieve your goals. It offers a visual calendar grid to track your progress, detailed metrics, and the ability to log specific amounts for each action. You can also add notes, use Siri shortcuts, and view your progress with widgets.

Highlights
  • Visual calendar grid progress tracking
  • Vital metrics and analytics
  • Track specific amounts and custom units
  • Notes and journal entries
  • Siri shortcuts and automation
  • Interactive widgets
Features
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Build habits with a visual tracker that makes daily progress easy to see—and easier to continue. Ripples turns every check-in into a clear, color-coded picture of your routines, goals, and consistency. SEE THE PATTERN Use flexible calendar grids to spot streaks, gaps, and trends at a glance. Organize habits into dashboards and create a view that fits your routine. TRACK MORE THAN CHECKMARKS Record simple check-ins or quantities such as pages, minutes, water, distance, money, and custom units. Add a note to any entry and review your history in the Journal. STAY CONSISTENT WITH LESS FRICTION Set multiple reminders, check in from interactive widgets, and build Shortcuts or Siri automations for the routines you repeat every day. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS See current and best streaks, consistency metrics, totals, averages, and daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. Compare years to understand what changed and where you are improving. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits and goals remain visible only to you and sync through end-to-end encrypted iCloud. Start with one habit. Watch the pattern grow. Privacy Policy: https://www.ripples.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Notepods

This app offers a centralized hub for organizing your life with specialized 'pods' for various needs like journaling, counting, budgeting, and checklists. It allows for collaboration and seamless syncing across Apple devices via iCloud, keeping your data private and accessible.

Highlights
  • Purpose-built 'pods' for diverse needs
  • Photo journaling and memory capture
  • Simple counting and tally tracking
  • Spending tracking with budgeting
  • Collaborative checklists
  • Visual trend charts for data
  • Time elapser and reminders
Features
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Notepods gives you a centralized hub to actively and passively write down and keep track of your life in a wide variety of ways. With easy-to-use, purpose-built pods, you will not only have the information you need but see it in the ways it was meant to be seen. Share the fun with all of your family and friends by sending any pod as a copy on iMessage or invite them to write on the pods along with you. The best part is, all of your pods are stored directly on your device only. With iCloud, your pods can stay available across your Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) without requiring another account or login. Choose from a wide variety of pod categories that seamlessly fit any need: CAPTURE MOMENTS Never forget a moment in your life, big or small, with a header, caption, date, and photo. Moments pods are simple photo journaling to give memories a simple home without turning them into a long journal of entries. Open one later and relive the whole moment. Share them as copies to share the fun COUNT THINGS Keep a simple running count of anything you care about. Add or subtract with a tap. Timestamp your entries to track when each instance happened. Great for keeping tallies, tracking occurrences, counting activities, or anything else where a number tells the story. With timestamping, unlock a new dimension such as habit tracking. TRACK SPENDING Stay on top of your spending by quickly recording purchases with an amount and category so you can keep an eye on where your money is going. Add your own budget number when you want to stay within limits. Group your spending into different buckets for a more organized overview of your spending. MAKE CHECKLISTS Create clean, simple checklists for shopping, goals, packing, errands, or whatever you need to get through. Progress is shown automatically as you check each item off. Each item can be numbered, great for sequencing, ranking, and prioritizing. Collaborate with other users by sending invitations to join and watch the lists update in realtime on everyone's devices. TRACK TRENDS Numbers become much more useful when you can see how they’re changing over time. Let Notepods turn your entries into a visual trend chart. Use it for anything measurable that you’d rather understand on a graph than in a wall of text. LOOK FORWARD OR BACK IN TIME Create a Time Elapser for something meaningful and see exactly how much time has passed. This can span across hours, days, months, and years. Whether you’re counting from an important event or simply curious how long it’s been since something took place, the passage of time becomes something you can see at a glance. Add reminders when a certain amount of time has elapsed from now or reset the clock to start from zero again. SAVE LABELED INFORMATION Some information doesn’t need a paragraph...It just needs a name and a value, like that 10-digit ID number that you don't want to remember or a website URL. Keep useful details organized as labeled text so they’re easy to view and copy when you need them. FAVORITES Some pods deserve more attention. Easily favorite any pod and quickly find it in the Favorites tab SEARCH Quickly find the pod you need by header or content with the search function WIDGETS Notepods also supports widgets for simple counters, labeled text, time elapsers, and countdowns so they can be seen and used without opening the app. Same notes. Better structure. More functional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYLcUGgTXvMw-aBG1DlKN__ztLJahYJTSoGvccW440A/edit?usp=sharing

Screenshots

Ripples4 screens
Notepods4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Ripples at 235 against Notepods's 4. Notepods's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Ripples sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Notepods sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notepods holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ripples has 235 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ripples ships an update fortnightly, Notepods every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ripples versus Notepods: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRipplesNotepods
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (235 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings235 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMykola HarmashBHARGAVA TEJA RAMISETTY

Customer experience

Ripples

All ratings235 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral1.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews138 reviews
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.1%

Notepods

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ripples

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Notifications not working reliably
  • UI bugs causing app to become unusable
  • Restore purchases not functioning
  • Pro features not unlocking after purchase
  • Lifetime purchase redemption not working

Requested features

12 requests
  • Check-in reminders/notifications
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Weekly and monthly habit tracking
  • Filtering by categories or tags
Show 7 more
  • Smaller board sizes for better screen visibility
  • Easier bulk check-in for past dates
  • Notes field for individual check-ins
  • Habit reordering functionality
  • Compact main menu view
  • Track amounts with custom units (e.g., pages read)
  • Square widgets

Notepods

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Ripples

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Powerpack$9.99
  • Powerpack Family$17.99
  • Ripples Plus Lifetime$24.99
3 purchases

Notepods

Subscriptions2
  • Notepods+ Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Notepods+ Annual Subscription$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Notepods+ Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Ripples free?
Ripples is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Notepods free?
Notepods is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ripples or Notepods?
Notepods is rated higher. Ripples averages 4.7 out of 5 from 235 ratings, while Notepods averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Ripples or Notepods have ads?
Neither Ripples nor Notepods shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ripples or Notepods?
Ripples ships an update fortnightly, and Notepods every 3 days. Most recently, Ripples was updated on October 30, 2026 and Notepods on October 31, 2026.

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