Comparison

Goldfish Notes vs Mindverse

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

Head to head
About

Goldfish Notes

Capture and organize your thoughts effortlessly with AI-powered note-taking. This app transforms messy ideas into structured notes, automatically selecting the best format and highlighting key information. It also offers seamless integration with Obsidian for centralized note management.

Highlights
  • AI-powered thought capture
  • Automatic note formatting
  • Extracts key information
  • Obsidian integration
  • Intuitive interface
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Goldfish is the most intuitive way of capturing your fleeting thoughts the go. It transforms your messy thoughts into clear, structured notes using AI—automatically choosing the best format and keeping only what matters. It also integrates seamlessly with Obsidian, making it easy to manage all your notes in one spot.

About

Mindverse

Features
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The only AI notes app where intelligence runs entirely on your device. No tokens. 100% Private. Free Google Drive Sync. Agent-Ready. No Ads. No lock-in. Snap a whiteboard. Record a lecture. Drop a link. Jot a thought. Mindverse captures everything and automatically organizes it — using on-device AI right on your phone. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Type notes in Markdown or plain text • Record voice memos with one tap — transcribed automatically, on-device • Photograph documents, whiteboards, or receipts — text extracted instantly • Drop any URL — full article text and YouTube transcripts saved as notes • Share from any app directly into Mindverse AI WITH NO ONGOING COST All AI runs on your device using on-device models — no subscriptions, no token quotas, no per-query billing. Your brain doesn't charge per thought. Neither do we. • Auto-tags and categorizes every note on save • Smart search answers natural language questions across your whole library • AI Q&A grounded in your actual notes — not the internet • "You Saved This" resurfaces notes from the same date in past years SKILLS ENGINE Skills are AI actions that run on your notes — one tap on a single note, or select many and run on all. • Summarize — key points in seconds • Flashcards — turn notes into study cards automatically • To Checklist — convert any note to an actionable task list • Combine — merge multiple notes into one coherent document • Build your own — write a skill in plain English, works like any built-in • Auto-trigger on save — configure any skill to run automatically KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Mindverse builds a graph of relationships across everything you save — surfacing connections you didn't know existed. • Auto-links related notes across topics and time • Topic Digest — tap any theme to see all related notes collected in one place • Daily insights surface emerging patterns in your thinking YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES Every note is a plain .md file on your device — no proprietary format, no lock-in. Open in Obsidian, VS Code, iA Writer, or any text editor. Sync to your own Google Drive for backup; your notes stay readable there as plain Markdown even without the app. • No Mindverse backend — nothing stored on our servers, ever • Images and audio backed up alongside each note • Hook up directly with to your claude/codex/gemini or any other agent on your desktop or via google drive PRICING All current features — AI, Skills, Knowledge Graph, Google Drive sync — are free to use today. AI inference runs on your device and has no marginal cost; it is always free.

Screenshots

Goldfish Notes4 screens
Mindverse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Goldfish Notes at 13.4 against Mindverse's 16.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and July 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Goldfish Notes versus Mindverse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoldfish NotesMindverse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKa Man Carmen LiDwipal Desai

In-app purchases

None

Goldfish Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Mindverse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Goldfish Notes free?
Goldfish Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindverse free?
Mindverse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Goldfish Notes or Mindverse have ads?
Neither Goldfish Notes nor Mindverse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Goldfish Notes or Mindverse?
Goldfish Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mindverse every 3 weeks. Most recently, Goldfish Notes was updated on September 12, 2026 and Mindverse on July 2, 2026.

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