Comparison

Idea Score vs Magpie

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

Head to head
About

Idea Score

This app helps you organize and prioritize your business ideas. Assign scores based on budget, income potential, and passion to select the most promising projects. Focus on what matters and achieve your goals efficiently with intuitive planning tools.

Highlights
  • Jot down project and business ideas
  • Assign grades based on budget
  • Evaluate income potential
  • Consider passion levels
  • Prioritize best projects
  • Intuitive interface
  • Decision-making tools
Features
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Introducing the ultimate project planning app! Jot down every project or business idea that comes to mind, and assign grades based on factors like budget, income potential, and passion. Our app helps you prioritize and choose the best projects to pursue. With an intuitive interface and powerful decision-making tools, you’ll be able to focus on what truly matters and achieve your goals more efficiently. Start planning smarter today!

About

Magpie

Capture fleeting thoughts and ideas from any source, including voice notes and shared links. Your captured content is automatically organized and accessible within your writing tools, like Claude, when you need it most. Own your notes as plain text files, ensuring they are always yours.

Highlights
  • Capture voice notes
  • Save text thoughts
  • Share and transcribe links
  • Integrates with writing tools
  • Organizes ideas automatically
  • Plain text file ownership
Features
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Stop losing your best ideas. That spark while scrolling TikTok. The shower thought. The perfect phrasing from a Claude conversation. Something from a podcast you meant to remember. By the time you sit down to write, it's gone. Magpie gives your ideas a place to land. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE - Voice notes on the go - Quick text thoughts - Share links (TikToks, YouTube, podcasts, articles) and Magpie transcribes them READY IN CLAUDE WHEN YOU WRITE Your notes aren't trapped in this app. When you open Claude on your computer, your ideas are already there. Working in Cowork? Already loaded. You just talk to Claude like normal and it knows what you've been thinking about. BUILT FOR WRITERS WHO THINK EVERYWHERE Writing a Substack or blog on the side? Ideas hit all day in all the wrong places. Magpie captures them and organizes everything automatically. Zero setup. When you finally sit down to write, everything's waiting. YOUR NOTES, YOUR CONTROL Everything stored as plain text files you own. Not locked in any app. Yours forever. HOW IT WORKS Capture → Store → Write. Save an idea today. Three months from now, ask Claude "what have I been thinking about productivity?" or "show me what I saved last week" and it knows. PERFECT FOR - Writers who think faster than they can type - Anyone whose best ideas happen mid-Claude - Substackers, bloggers, creators who need their ideas to show up when they write Free to start. 25 notes a month. Upgrade for unlimited notes and video transcription. Visit mymagpie.app for tutorials. Terms of Use: https://www.mymagpie.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.mymagpie.app/privacy

Screenshots

Idea Score3 screens
Magpie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idea Score at none against Magpie's 1. Idea Score also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Magpie sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Idea Score asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Idea Score versus Magpie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdea ScoreMagpie
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOmer OdabasRebecca Spitzer

Customer experience

Idea Score

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Magpie

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Idea Score

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Magpie

Subscriptions1
  • Magpie Unlimited$7.991 Month

Questions

Is Idea Score free?
Idea Score is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magpie free?
Magpie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idea Score or Magpie have ads?
Neither Idea Score nor Magpie shows ads.

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