Ivy vs Minbi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ivy
This app helps you focus on what matters by planning your day, tracking progress, and reviewing accomplishments. It offers features like repeating reminders, time-based goals, and voice input for planning. Celebrate your completed tasks with animations and build a journal of your day.
- Daily planning and commitment
- Repeating reminders and time-based goals
- Voice input for quick planning
- Focus Mode for time tracking
- Completion animations and haptics
- Journaling of completed tasks
- Review list for unfinished items
Read full descriptionHide full description
Achieve more by taking on less. Start your day by choosing what truly matters and commit to it. Focus and feel the momentum build as you check things off. Finish with a beautiful record of a day well spent, while anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow. Add rich detail • Create repeating reminders. • Add notes, and set time- or count-based goals. • Promote to a Superaction and get an extra impactful animation on completion. • Schedule for a specific time of day, and get reminded with a notification or an alarm. Choose what matters • Quickly draft your plan just by talking with the voice input*. • Loosely slot anything in between auto-sorted scheduled items. • Commit when your plan feels right—you can still adjust as things come up. Focus and build momentum • Get rewarded with satisfying animations and haptics as you check things off. • Stay focused and track time as you go with Focus Mode. • Interact with your plan at a glance by enabling the Live Activity on your Lock Screen, or by adding the widget to your Home Screen. • Long press to quickly adjust—add something new, or bump to tomorrow or Review. Celebrate what you accomplished • Mark your day as done and enjoy a beautiful 3D animation. • Watch your completed plan transform into a journal—so you can see where your time went. • Easily adjust the record with the ability to edit when you did things—and for how long. • Anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow’s plan, or to be let go. A powerful review tool • See what you’ve delayed—rescheduled items are automatically bumped to the top. • Scrub through days to retroactively complete—or assign to a day in the future. • Make decisions one by one with Focus Mode—moving or deleting a task will automatically focus the next one. • Turn a fleeting thought into action—use the Lock Screen control to add to your review list with a single tap. Personalize your experience • Get reminded to get started—or to wrap up your day—with morning and evening notifications. • Give yourself extra time to work on your plan if you’re a night owl. • Pick from a selection of themes and handcrafted patterns. Work with other apps • Connect Ivy with the Calendar and Reminders apps. • Import content from other apps with the share extension, including markdown lists. Expect great things down the road • Dedicated iPad, Mac, and watchOS apps. • More ways to organize—interests, habits, projects, etc. • Expanded journaling tools. *Voice Input requires a device with Apple Intelligence. Try Ivy today with a two week free trial. Feedback is always welcome—reach us at hello@semantical.com. Download Ivy for free and try it without registration. After the trial period, an active subscription is required to continue using the app. A subscription unlocks full access to Ivy on all supported devices. • 14-day free trial. • Full access on all supported devices. • Monthly and annual subscription options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple Account subscription settings. Privacy and Terms of Use: https://semantical.com/privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Minbi
Read full descriptionHide full description
Keep the thought. Save the voice. Remember the song. Minbi is a home for the thoughts and moments you do not want to lose. Write what happened, record how it sounded, add the photos, and attach the song that made it feel like yours. A MEMORY CAN HOLD MORE THAN WORDS Every Minbi entry can bring text, photos, web links, checklists, voice recordings, reminders, and music together. Capture a quick thought or build a richer memory without splitting it across different apps. SAVE THE SOUNDTRACK Attach a song from Apple Music to remember not only what happened, but how the moment felt. Keep the music beside the words, photos, and details it belongs to. KEEP THE VOICE Record a voice note when typing would lose the feeling. Automatic transcription keeps the recording and its words together—and helps you find what was said later. LET MEMORIES FIND YOU AGAIN Add a reminder to bring a thought back when it matters. Explore Lost Thoughts—an endless canvas of things you saved—and rediscover something worth seeing again. MAKE PRIVATE THOUGHTS PLAYFUL Lock a personal note with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Its words scatter across the screen, turning private writing into a visual secret until you reveal it. SAVE FIRST, ORGANIZE LATER Capture something immediately, then organize it into a Board whenever you are ready. Pin what matters most and search across notes, checklists, and voice transcripts using exact or natural-language searches. SAVE FROM OTHER APPS Use the share extension to keep links, images, and text without interrupting what you are doing. MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES Use Minbi on iPhone and iPad, with your library kept in sync through iCloud. FEATURES • Notes that combine multiple kinds of content • Apple Music song attachments • Voice recording with automatic transcription • Reminders for saved thoughts • Photos and rich web-link previews • Checklists and to-do items • Locked notes with playful scattered text • Lost Thoughts endless canvas • Boards and pinning • Exact and semantic search • Share extension • iCloud synchronization Some moments begin as a sentence. Others are a voice, a photograph, a song, or simply a feeling you want to return to. Minbi keeps them together. Terms of Use: https://minbi.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://minbi.app/privacy/
Screenshots
Verdict
Ivy and Minbi are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Ivy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Minbi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ivy ships an update every 10 days, Minbi every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ivy | Minbi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Semantical | Sviatoslav Belmeha |
In-app purchases
Ivy
- 1 Month$3.991 Month
- 1 Year14 Days trial$29.991 Year
Minbi
- Pro Annual3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$14.99









