Things To Write vs AboutMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 600+ curated writing topics
- Self-exploration and life recording
- Emotional release and stress reduction
- Mindfulness practice
- Improve writing skills
- Automatic cloud sync
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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.
AboutMe
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AboutMe: Self Reflection helps you understand yourself one small answer at a time. Use guided daily prompts, introspective questions, and simple activities to reflect on your values, patterns, strengths, relationships, future self, and next actions. Save short reflections, organize them with tags, revisit your archive, and notice gentle patterns through simple insight summaries. AboutMe is designed to feel calm and private. There are no accounts, no social features, no ads, no analytics, and no tracking. Your reflections are stored locally on your device. Features: - Daily reflection prompts - Introspective question cards - Six-part self-discovery journey - Saved reflection archive - Search and filters for past reflections - Simple tag-based insights - Local-only storage - Reset local data anytime AboutMe is a self-reflection and personal growth tool. It is not therapy, diagnosis, treatment, crisis support, or a replacement for professional mental health care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AboutMe at none against Things To Write's 1. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Things To Write sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AboutMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Things To Write | AboutMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 嘉胜 陈 | Avin Yandy |
In-app purchases
Things To Write
- Unlock All Topics$8.99
AboutMe
No in-app purchases








