Comparison

Snowball vs Mapable

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

Head to head
About

Snowball

This app helps you build lasting habits by tracking daily, weekly, or bi-weekly routines. Organize habits into goals and monitor your progress with detailed analytics to foster consistent change.

Highlights
  • Personalized habit creation
  • Habit grouping into goals
  • Daily, weekly, bi-weekly tracking
  • Insightful analytics
  • Progress visualization
Features
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Snowball is a simple & powerful habit tracker designed for daily, weekly, and bi-weekly routines. Easily create personalized habits and group them into larger goals. Stay consistent with insightful tracking analytics for each habit — and watch your progress "snowball" into lasting change!

About

Mapable

Capture thoughts, voice memos, photos, and links effortlessly. This app uses AI to automatically organize, tag, and link your information, visualizing it as an interactive mind map. Ask natural language questions to retrieve answers from your entire knowledge base.

Highlights
  • Instant capture (text, voice, images, URLs)
  • AI auto-tagging and linking
  • Interactive knowledge graph visualization
  • Natural language search
  • Daily journal with prompts
  • Goal tracking and todo management
Features
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Mapable is a calm second brain that organizes itself. Throw in a thought, a voice note, a screenshot, a link or a TikTok. Mapable files each one into a few clear topics, draws them as a map, and answers when you ask. No folders. No tags. No setup. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Thoughts, voice notes, photos and screenshots, links • TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube videos: Mapable watches them and remembers what's inside, down to the moment • Share from any app with the share sheet, or dictate anywhere with your voice IT ORGANIZES ITSELF • Every note lands in one of a few stable topics, automatically • Your topics are drawn as a topographic map: each topic is a hill that grows as you add to it • Related notes link up on their own ASK YOUR NOTES • Ask in plain words: "where was that ramen place?" • Get an answer in your language, with the notes it came from, even "the moment at 0:21 in that TikTok" YOUR DAY, IN ONE PLACE • Today: your calendar, todos, rituals, and a note resurfaced from a while ago • It noticed: Mapable spots todos, dates, goals and habits inside your notes and suggests them. Nothing is added without your tap • Grow: goals drawn as summits, rituals with streaks, and the people named in your notes • Evening check-in: your mood as weather, plus a few words • Weekly review: what grew this week, as a map you can share MADE FOR BUSY HEADS Students, readers, makers, parents, and anyone whose reading list makes them feel guilty. Use it as a brain dump, a voice journal, a recipe keeper, a bookmark manager, or the place where saved TikToks finally get watched again. SIX LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Italian. Mapable replies in your language. IN THEIR WORDS "honestly I just throw stuff in and forget about it, then a week later it's sitting exactly where I'd have put it. bit spooky" (John) "asked it where that restaurant was that I saved months ago and it just knew" (Lina) "my reading list used to make me feel guilty. now I actually go back to it" (Dennis) "I never stick with notes apps. still using this one" (Irina) FREE AND PRO Mapable is free: 5 notes a day, 3 Asks a week and 1 video a week. Mapable Pro removes the limits: unlimited notes, Asks and videos. Mapable Pro is $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.mapable.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mapable.dev/terms

Screenshots

Snowball4 screens
Mapable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Snowball at none against Mapable's shown. Snowball also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Snowball sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mapable sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Snowball versus Mapable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnowballMapable
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoment Labs LLCAlexis Raimbault

Customer experience

Snowball

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mapable

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Snowball

One-time1
  • Snowball Premium$9.99
2 purchases

Mapable

Subscriptions2
  • Mapable Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Mapable Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Snowball free?
Snowball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mapable free?
Mapable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Snowball or Mapable have ads?
Mapable shows ads; Snowball does not.

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