Nine Ideas vs Rise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nine Ideas
This app helps you train your creativity through daily challenges. Choose a topic and write down nine ideas to strengthen your creative mindset and thinking habits. It's designed for journaling, brainstorming, and daily inspiration without pressure.
- Daily idea generation challenges
- Topic selection or random prompts
- Structured thinking format
- Revisit and save past topics
- Offline use
- No account or cloud tracking
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Train your creativity in small, daily steps. Choose a topic – and write down nine ideas. Challenging, but doable. A daily routine that gets easier over time – and builds real creative strength. Whether it’s for journaling, brainstorming, or daily inspiration – Nine Ideas gets your thoughts moving. You’ll explore new angles, train your idea flow, and strengthen your creative mindset. No pressure. It’s not about being perfect. It’s about thinking differently, experimenting, and showing up every day. ————————— How it works: → Pick a topic – or get one at random → Write nine ideas, thoughts or questions → Train your thinking in a clear, simple format → Revisit topics, save favorites, explore new angles ————————— Why nine ideas? Because nine is just outside your comfort zone. Enough to stretch your mind – but still doable. That’s what makes it work. ————————— In a world of AI and automation, your ability to think creatively matters more than ever. Your questions, your ideas, your way of thinking – they make the difference. Nine Ideas helps you create a habit of thinking clearly, creatively, and consistently. Offline. Without pressure. One small step at a time. ————————— Who is it for? → You want to think more clearly, work more creatively, or reflect regularly? → You’re looking for daily prompts to spark new ideas in your work, studies, or personal life? → You use journaling, develop personal projects, or create content? → You’re navigating change and want to build a habit of creative reflection? → Do you prefer structured thinking, think in connections, and want to strengthen your creativity – in your own way? Nine Ideas helps you stay consistent – with structure, inspiration, and a format that activates your mind. ————————— What you’ll gain: → More mental clarity and focus → New ideas and creative breakthroughs → Confidence in your own process → A simple habit to strengthen your creativity → A space to think – your way And if you don’t reach nine? That’s okay. Some days you’ll have nine. Some days, just a few. What matters is: you showed up. ————————— Your ideas stay on your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Just you and your mind. ————————— Start your daily challenge today. Creativity isn’t a talent. It’s a habit.
Rise
This app helps you build structured, flexible daily plans around recurring activities and personal goals. It adapts to your schedule and priorities, offering insights into time distribution and a built-in focus timer. Designed for intentional living without rigidity.
- Create structured daily plans from recurring activities
- Integrate with real calendar events
- Visualize time distribution across projects
- Flexible planning adapting to schedule and priorities
- Built-in focus timer
- iCloud sync across devices
- Privacy-first design with no accounts
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Rise — The Routine Planner for the Agentic Era. We can do more than ever now. One person can have a full-time job, study something new, build a startup, work out, care for a family, improve their health, and still have more ideas waiting for their turn. That’s exciting. It’s also a lot. We’re entering the agentic age with tools that help us move faster, but our time is still limited. And we’re still trying to manage everything with to-do lists. A to-do list doesn’t know how much time you have or help you balance competing priorities. It just keeps growing. Rise takes a different approach. Understand your time Before making another plan, step back. What are you spending your time on? What keeps getting pushed aside? Are the things that matter getting any space in your week? Rise doesn’t decide how your life should be organized. You do. Track your time by projects, goals, clients, habits, areas of life—or anything else that makes sense to you. Rise shows you how your time is distributed, so you can see whether it matches your priorities. Plan for real life Most plans work until the day begins. A meeting appears. Something takes longer. A new priority comes in. Suddenly, the plan no longer fits. Rise helps you plan around the time you actually have. When the day changes, your plan can change with it. Here’s how Rise works 1. Define your goals and activities Start with the things you want to make time for—a project, a new skill, your health, people you care about, or simply something you enjoy. Turn each one into an activity you can return to regularly. Describe it naturally, and Rise helps you set it up. 2. Set your time, schedule, and priorities Decide how much time to give each activity, how often it should happen, and whether its timing is fixed or flexible. Organize everything your way. See what’s competing for your time and decide what should come first. 3. Turn your plans into structured days Choose what you want to accomplish, and Rise fits it around the events in your Apple Calendar. In minutes, you have a realistic plan. If a meeting appears, something takes longer, or priorities shift, adjust it and keep going. Describe routines naturally Rise uses Apple Intelligence to turn your words into recurring routines. For example: • “Workout every morning for 45 minutes with a 10-minute cooldown.” • “Study Spanish Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7 AM for 90 minutes.” • “Deep work on weekdays after lunch for 2 hours.” • “Therapy every other Tuesday afternoon with reminders.” • “Read for 30 minutes whenever I have free time.” • “Review my budget on the 1st and 15th of each month.” No long forms. No complicated setup. Just describe what you want to do. Organize things your way Use folders for projects, clients, goals, habits, responsibilities, or anything else you want to track. Rise gives you the structure, but you decide what that structure means. Plan your day Each morning, choose what you want to accomplish. Rise works around your Apple Calendar events and fits activities into the time that’s actually available. A few minutes later, you have a structured day—not just a list of things you hope to finish. Features • Create recurring routines with Apple Intelligence • Describe routines in natural language • Build a structured daily plan in minutes • Plan around your Apple Calendar events • Adjust your plan when the day changes • Organize activities in your own way • Set fixed or flexible schedules • Use a built-in focus timer for every routine • See how your time is distributed • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Privacy first—no account required Rise isn’t another place to collect tasks. It helps you answer a better question: How do I fit everything I care about into the time I actually have? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rise at 4.5 against Nine Ideas's 4.0. Rise also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Nine Ideas's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Rise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Nine Ideas asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rise holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Nine Ideas ships an update fortnightly, Rise weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nine Ideas | Rise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marina Bohlem | Aleksandr Martirosov |
In-app purchases
Nine Ideas
No in-app purchases
Rise
- Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
- Plus Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Rise Essentials$24.99









