Comparison

Notes for Lucky vs ThinkAloud Notes

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

Head to head
About

Notes for Lucky

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Lucky Notes is a companion app to the Lucky Safari extension. It is a very basic notes app that lets you save text snippets. When you search with Lucky, it will also search through your saved notes and include the relevant results, making your search more personalized and useful.

About

ThinkAloud Notes

Record your thoughts and let on-device AI transform them into structured notes with titles, tags, and links. Your data stays private on your phone, with no accounts or subscriptions required. Access and manage your notes as standard Markdown files.

Highlights
  • Voice, photo, and text input
  • On-device AI note generation
  • Automatic tagging and linking
  • Ask questions about your notes
  • Knowledge graph creation
  • Markdown file export
  • Optional cloud sync
Features
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You think out loud. ThinkAloud writes it down. Hit record and just talk: a passing idea, a meeting, a whole lecture. When you stop, you can play the recording back and decide whether it's worth keeping before anything happens to it. Only then does the on-device AI turn it into a real note, with a title, some structure, tags, and links to the related notes you already have. Here's the part that matters. All of this happens on your phone. ThinkAloud runs Google's Gemma model locally, so your voice and your notes never get uploaded anywhere. There's no account to create, no server in the middle, and nothing to pay every month. You download the model once, and after that it works offline. Your notes are just Markdown files in an ordinary folder, the same format Obsidian uses. Point ThinkAloud at a vault you already have, or let it keep one for you. Either way you can open, edit, or back them up with any app you like. Nothing is trapped inside. What it's good at: - Voice, photos, or quick text go in; clean, tagged notes come out - Ask your notes a question in plain language and get an answer with its sources listed, so you can tap straight through to where each fact came from - A knowledge graph that builds itself as your notes start linking up - Full-text search, tags, folders, and checklists - Optional sync to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Your account, a private folder, no servers of mine in between. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts. I made ThinkAloud because I wanted a notebook that was actually mine. That's the whole idea. The on-device model needs around 3 GB of free space and a fairly recent device.

Screenshots

Notes for Lucky3 screens
ThinkAloud Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ThinkAloud Notes at Free against Notes for Lucky's $0.99. ThinkAloud Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months). Notes for Lucky's advantage is chart position (#194 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

ThinkAloud Notes is free to download; Notes for Lucky costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notes for Lucky ships an update every 12 months, ThinkAloud Notes every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Notes for Lucky versus ThinkAloud Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotes for LuckyThinkAloud Notes
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnd a DinosaurGhanashyam Vinod Tatti

In-app purchases

None

Notes for Lucky

No in-app purchases

None

ThinkAloud Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notes for Lucky free?
Notes for Lucky costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThinkAloud Notes free?
ThinkAloud Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notes for Lucky or ThinkAloud Notes have ads?
Neither Notes for Lucky nor ThinkAloud Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notes for Lucky or ThinkAloud Notes?
Notes for Lucky ships an update every 12 months, and ThinkAloud Notes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Notes for Lucky was updated on October 7, 2026 and ThinkAloud Notes on October 7, 2026.

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