Comparison

Things To Write vs ProustMe

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

Head to head
About

Things To Write

Explore yourself and your life through over 600 curated writing prompts. This app helps improve writing skills, practice mindfulness, and release emotions by encouraging reflection from multiple perspectives.

Highlights
  • 600+ curated writing topics
  • Self-exploration and life recording
  • Emotional release and stress reduction
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Improve writing skills
  • Automatic cloud sync
Features
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"ThingsToWrite" is an app that integrates thinking, writing, and self-exploration, featuring over 600 curated topics to help you reflect on yourself, record your life, and release your emotions from different angles. Whether you're looking to improve your writing skills, enhance mindfulness, or simply pass the time and release inner pressure, "ThingsToWrite" offers a unique writing experience. Each question can be your autobiography, can be your story, can reflect your values, can unleash your imagination. Will your answers to the same question be more mature, more refined, or purer a year from now? How would your friends answer the same question? Don’t know what to talk about on a date? Pick a few questions. Can’t sleep at night? Write a few questions. Feeling anxious? Use questions to organize your thoughts. Main Features: Diverse Topics: Covering self-exploration, emotional memories, life records, creative writing, and more, offering endless inspiration. Answer from Different Angles: Each topic can be answered from multiple perspectives, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of yourself. Improve Writing Skills: Enhance your language expression and creative thinking by practicing writing continuously. Mindfulness Practice: Record your feelings and thoughts to stay focused, reduce anxiety, and improve mental health. Emotional Release: Use writing to release stress, organize your emotions, and find inner peace. Automatic Cloud Sync: Sync across multiple devices seamlessly.

About

ProustMe

This app uses AI to guide users through thought-provoking questions, helping them reflect on experiences, capture meaningful moments, and structure their lives into narratives. It shifts focus from social media to personal media, creating a living archive of one's life for deeper understanding.

Highlights
  • AI-guided journaling
  • Proust Questionnaire-based questions
  • Capture life-shaping moments
  • Build a living archive
  • Reflect on personal growth
  • Create lasting narratives
Features
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Remember Less. Understand More. ProustMe is the first platform designed to transform human experiences into lasting understanding. Not social media. Not journaling. Not therapy. Something entirely new. For decades we've documented our lives. Photos. Videos. Posts. Messages. But documenting isn't understanding. Most of our lives remain scattered across thousands of moments that never become a story. ProustMe changes that. Powered by Proustian AI Instead of asking: "What's on your mind?" ProustMe asks better questions. Questions that uncover: • identity • purpose • values • resilience • growth Every reflection becomes part of a structured understanding of your life. More Than an AI Chat Proustian AI doesn't simply generate answers. It learns your narrative. Recognizes patterns across time. Connects experiences. Preserves meaning. Helping you understand not just what happened— but who you're becoming. Your Story Has Value Every life contains knowledge. Until now, that knowledge disappeared. ProustMe creates a living archive that grows richer over time. A place where memories become insight. Experiences become understanding. And stories become legacy. What You Can Do • Capture meaningful moments • Reflect through guided conversations • Build your personal narrative • Discover patterns across your life • Revisit memories with new perspective • Preserve your story for future generations Built for the Future The internet organized information. Social media organized attention. ProustMe organizes human experience. We're building the Human Experience Graph—the foundation for a new generation of AI centered on people, not content. The Internet of Us. You've shared your life. Now understand it. Download ProustMe.

Screenshots

Things To Write4 screens
ProustMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ProustMe at none against Things To Write's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Things To Write sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ProustMe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Things To Write against 5.0 for ProustMe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Things To Write versus ProustMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings To WriteProustMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer嘉胜 陈The Protervus Group

Customer experience

Things To Write

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ProustMe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Things To Write

One-time1
  • Unlock All Topics$8.99
None

ProustMe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things To Write free?
Things To Write is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ProustMe free?
ProustMe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things To Write or ProustMe?
Things To Write and ProustMe are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Things To Write or ProustMe have ads?
Neither Things To Write nor ProustMe shows ads.

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