Comparison

Mindly 2 vs Plural Star

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

Head to head
About

Mindly 2

This app offers a visual approach to organizing thoughts, planning projects, and learning. It helps users transform scattered ideas into clear, structured maps with features like progressive focus and real-time collaboration. It's designed to foster calm, clarity, and focus for various users.

Highlights
  • Progressive focus for idea exploration
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Share interactive maps online
  • Enrich maps with images and files
  • Visual clipboard for content reorganization
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Turn ideas into clarity. Mindly is a new visual way to think. A visual companion for planning, learning, and creating - designed to keep you calm, clear, and focused, one idea at a time. Organize Your Mind • Planners - map out life goals, trips, or events • Professionals & teams - plan projects, align goals, and run workshops • Students & learners - take clear study notes and structure knowledge • Writers - structure stories, books, and research • Speakers - plan presentations and pitches • Researchers - collect insights and uncover findings • Designers - capture inspiration and creative flows Key Features • Progressive focus - explore step by step and discover meaningful links between your ideas • Real-time collaboration - think together with teammates, classmates, or clients • Share online - publish interactive maps anyone can open in a browser • Enrich your maps - add images, emojis, and supporting files with ease • Visual clipboard - quickly reorganize and restructure your content Why Mindly? Unlike cluttered whiteboard apps, Mindly keeps you focused - one idea at a time, in a space that feels calm and intuitive. Trusted by millions worldwide, Mindly helps entrepreneurs, creatives, and students transform scattered thoughts into meaningful connections. Mindly Subscription A Mindly subscription gives an access to all Mindly features on all platforms. Mindly is available as a monthly or yearly subscription and comes with a FREE trial. Download Mindly today and bring clarity to your ideas. Privacy Policy: https://mindlyapp.com/static/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://mindlyapp.com/static/terms-of-use.html

About

Plural Star

A private, offline-first system management app designed for individuals experiencing plurality, including DID and OSDD. It offers detailed tracking of fronting states, member profiles, custom fields, and system mapping. The app prioritizes user data privacy by keeping all information on the device.

Highlights
  • Three-tier front tracking (Primary, Co-Front, Co-Conscious)
  • Detailed member profiles with rich-text bios and custom fields
  • Observatory Mode for singlet access and journaling
  • Interactive system map for relationship visualization
  • Comprehensive history and insights on fronting and member activity
  • Local-only IRC-style system chat
Features
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Plural Star is a private, offline-first system management app built for plural individuals, those with DID, OSDD, or any form of plurality. Made in part with AI assistance, which is one of the main reasons we went Open Source. So that anyone wishing to, or with concerns, can examine the code. Simply Plural and Octocon have been discontinued. Plural Star is the replacement you own entirely; your data stays on your device. Features Three-Tier Front Tracking Track Primary Front, Co-Front, and Co-Conscious. Each tier has its own member, mood, note, and energy (1–10); Primary also tracks location. Members are exclusive to one tier. A persistent notification keeps all tiers visible. Optional front-check reminders. Friends & Syncing Optional end-to-end encrypted networking, off by default; the relay sees only encrypted blobs. Add friends with short mutual codes and see their front live. Privacy Buckets set what each friend sees: members, groups, journal, history, profile, whiteboard, or planner. Link your own devices: pick which sends first, then everything syncs both ways, pictures included. Pin up to five friends into the notification, or the iOS Live Island. Member Profiles Profile pictures, 900×300 banners, names, pronouns, roles, colors, rich-text bios with full Markdown. Freeform tags and colored groups with multi-group membership. Facets and Custom Fronts for parts that aren't members. Filter, search, sort six ways. Tier badges when fronting. Archive dormant members: history preserved, restorable. Your Words Rename Headmate, Front, Facet, and more. The whole app follows your system's language. Observatory Mode Turns Plural Star into a manual status tracker and journaling app with a rebuilt UI for the Singlets in our lives, granting almost every feature. For non-plural friends, family, and caretakers. Day Planner Calendar of appointments and repeating reminders, each with its own mark color and alerts. Whiteboard Freeform canvas: pen, shapes, fill, and eraser. Custom Fields Define your own per-member fields, eight types from text to Markdown. Reorderable, renameable, exportable. Mailbox System-wide mail between headmates: per-member inboxes with unread badges, replies, and pinning. Syncs across devices. System Polls Polls the whole system can vote on. Vote tallies, voter tracking, optional closure. One vote per member; changeable until closed. System Map Chart relationships between headmates on an interactive force-directed graph. Members join as you create relationships. History & Insights Front History: timestamped log of every switch by day, with co-front and co-conscious tiers inline. Member History: every session, mood/location/note change, energy, and journal entry per headmate, with totals. Add retroactive entries with three-tier support and overlap detection. System Statistics Total fronting time, session and message counts, with time-range filtering. Leaderboards for fronters, co-fronters, co-conscious, chatters, moods, and locations. Peak Hours shows when your system is most active. System Chat Local-only IRC-style chat, up to 100 channels. Speaker is independent of who's fronting; chat doesn't affect front or history. Text, images, replies, emoji reactions. Archive channels to free storage. System Journal The same rich-text entries with full Markdown as member profiles. Tag by author and topic hashtag. Optionally lock individual entries or the whole journal with passwords. Import & Export Import full system data from Simply Plural, PluralKit, Octocon, Ampersand, Ourcana, HiveMind, Tupperbox, Parallax, PluralLog & PluralSpace. Export as .zip, HTML, or email summary with per-category toggles. Import .txt, .md, or .json directly as journal entries. Multilingual 24 languages: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Suomi, Norsk, Italiano, Türkçe, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Русский, Українська, Nederlands, Íslenska, हिन्दी, Afrikaans, 한국어, Svenska, Polski. Auto-detects on first launch.

Screenshots

Mindly 24 screens
Plural Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plural Star at 90% against Mindly 2's 6%. Plural Star also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Mindly 2's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support 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. Mindly 2 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Plural Star asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plural Star holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plural Star has 44 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Mindly 2's written reviews are positive against 90% of Plural Star's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindly 2 ships an update every 2 months, Plural Star every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mindly 2 versus Plural Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindly 2Plural Star
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (5 ratings)4.6 (44 ratings) — better
Positive reviews5.7% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings544 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerdripgrind OyZachary Boyle

Customer experience

Mindly 2

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive5.7%
Neutral2.9%
Negative91.4%

Plural Star

All ratings44 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mindly 2

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$34.991 Year
None

Plural Star

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindly 2 free?
Mindly 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plural Star free?
Plural Star is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mindly 2 or Plural Star?
Plural Star is rated higher. Mindly 2 averages 1.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Plural Star averages 4.6 from 44 ratings.
Do Mindly 2 or Plural Star have ads?
Neither Mindly 2 nor Plural Star shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindly 2 or Plural Star?
Mindly 2 ships an update every 2 months, and Plural Star every 3 days. Most recently, Mindly 2 was updated on September 22, 2026 and Plural Star on September 23, 2026.

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