Comparison

SNAB vs Einfall

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

Head to head
About

SNAB

Features
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Every day, the same questions. Where does this go? Did I handle that? Why am I deciding this again? You’re not disorganized. You’re re-deciding. Every note, task, idea or message forces a decision: Where to put it. What to call it. What to do with it. Nothing has a default route. So everything stays active in your head. SNAB fixes that. Everything you capture gets handled. Not stored. Handled. ______ Decide once. Never re-decide again. You define a situation once: A tax letter. A client message. A reminder. Where it goes. What it becomes. What happens next. Next time? You don’t think. You just capture. It’s already decided. ______ Speak it. It’s handled. “Call the insurance tomorrow at nine. Finish the presentation by Friday. And we need milk.” Three inputs. Handled instantly. No typing. No sorting. No rethinking. ______ Your mind finally gets quiet. Most apps store things. SNAB gives everything a route. That’s why nothing lingers. Nothing loops. Nothing gets lost. ______ Capture from anywhere. Voice. Scan. Share. Email. One tap from your lock screen. Everything flows into the same system. ______ No guilt. No pressure. No streaks. No red warnings. No fake urgency. Just a calm view of what’s real. ______ Privacy is not a feature. No ads. No tracking. European servers. Built for GDPR from day one. ______ Free vs Gold SNAB is free with core features. Gold unlocks the full system: • Unlimited capture • Advanced transcription & OCR • Cloud integrations • Offline mode • Cross-device sync Free gives you tools. Gold gives you a system. ______ SNAB is not a to-do list. Not a notes app. It’s a system that removes decisions. Stop re-deciding. ______ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://snab.app/legal/privacy/ Subscription Information: Gold is an auto-renewable subscription. Available as monthly and yearly plans. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

About

Einfall

Quickly capture fleeting ideas and thoughts from any device. Organize them in a simple, searchable stream and take action when you're ready. Your thoughts are private and sync securely via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Instant capture from any device
  • Simple, searchable plain text stream
  • Actionable thoughts (edit, export, integrate)
  • Optional local AI agent
  • Private, no account required
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Face ID/Touch ID lock
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Einfall is a place for fugitive thoughts. The thought arrives while you are busy with something else — in a queue, on a walk, halfway through a meeting. Einfall is the fastest place to put it, and a place you can trust to keep it. Get it out of your head in a second. Deal with it later. Or never. One-time purchase. No subscription. Capture wherever you are Whichever device is nearest your hand, and never more than one gesture: • The Mac menu bar, summoned by a keyboard shortcut from any app • Home-screen and lock-screen widgets • Control Centre, on iPhone, iPad and Mac • The share sheet, for a link or a passage of text • The Services menu on Mac, for selected text in any app • Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and the Action Button • Your voice, transcribed on your device as you speak None of them make you look at your stream first. Capture is free and unlimited, forever. One calm stream Everything you capture lands in a single flat list, newest first. No folders, no notebooks, no unread counts, no reminders that you are behind. Plain text you can read, edit and search. Tags if you want them, nothing to tend if you do not. A long stream is not a backlog — it is a notebook you trust. Do something with a thought, when you are ready Open the stream, pick a thought and fire an action: • Send it out — to Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Files, the share sheet or a Shortcut • Change it in place — tidy the phrasing with Apple Intelligence on your device, turn prose into a list, change the case, stamp the time it was caught, copy it • Fold it into another thought, so related notes gather in one place A thought that gets routed leaves the stream. A thought you no longer need is deleted, without ceremony. Both are good endings. Your own AI agent, if you use one Einfall carries an optional local server on Mac — off until you turn it on — so your own AI agent can read and work on your stream on your behalf. Whatever you can do in the app, your agent can do too. Nothing it writes changes a thought until you accept it. Private because there is nowhere else to be No account. No sign-in. No infrastructure of ours between you and your thoughts. Your stream syncs across your own devices through iCloud, and nowhere else. Dictation and Apple Intelligence run on your device. Einfall's App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, because none is. You can lock the stream behind Face ID or Touch ID, export the whole thing as one plain-text file whenever you like, and keep automatic backups in a folder you choose. Free to capture. Pay once to unlock everything you can do with your thoughts. Capturing is free and unlimited, forever. Reading and searching your stream is always free. So are the in-place actions — copy, listify, change case and timestamps. The routing layer — sending a thought out to another app, folding one thought into another, and Apple Intelligence — gives you fifteen free fires. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks it for good, on every device you own, and for your household through Family Sharing. No subscription. Nothing to renew. Nothing expires. Your own thoughts are never held behind a lapsing fee. Einfall is the German word for an idea that falls into your mind unprompted. This is the place to put those thoughts before they are gone. Mac, iPhone and iPad. Requires macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.

Screenshots

SNAB4 screens
Einfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SNAB at 18.6 against Einfall's 26.0. 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. SNAB sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Einfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SNAB ships an update every 10 days, Einfall every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SNAB versus Einfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSNABEinfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian MonninghoffJEAN PIERRE MARAIS

In-app purchases

4 purchases

SNAB

Subscriptions2
  • SNAB Gold Member7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • SNAB Gold Member7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • SNAB Platinum$99.00
  • SNAB coFunder$199.00
1 purchases

Einfall

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$29.99

Questions

Is SNAB free?
SNAB is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Einfall free?
Einfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SNAB or Einfall have ads?
Neither SNAB nor Einfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SNAB or Einfall?
SNAB ships an update every 10 days, and Einfall every 5 days. Most recently, SNAB was updated on October 3, 2026 and Einfall on September 25, 2026.

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