Loominote vs SecondBrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loominote
This app transforms voice notes, documents, and text into organized summaries, action items, and scheduled tasks. It helps you execute plans, generate emails, and create content, moving beyond simple note-taking to drive productivity.
- Capture voice, text, and scanned documents
- Automatic summaries and action items
- Task creation and scheduling
- Generate emails and content
- Multi-device sync
- Privacy-first design
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Talk it out. Loominote turns your meetings, voice notes, and thought dumps into action items you'll actually do. - Record meetings & voice notes (or capture from Apple Watch) - AI summaries & auto-detected action items - Schedule tasks straight from your notes - Scan PDFs, paste text — Loominote understands it all - Mind maps & AI quizzes for students - Beautiful, distraction-free design users love Built for busy professionals, ADHD thinkers, doctors, and students who think faster than they can write. ——— HOW IT WORKS 1. Capture — Talk, type, scan, or upload from anywhere. Even from your wrist with Apple Watch. 2. Clarify — Loominote summarizes and pulls out the action items hidden in your words. 3. Execute — Schedule tasks, draft emails, build study guides, and move forward. Notes become motion. ——— LOVED BY "Best-designed notes app I've used." — App Store review "Finally, an AI app that helps me act on my thoughts." — Pro user "The app I didn’t know that existed" — Pro user "Vaccine for ADHD" — App Store review Lifetime subscribers find us by word-of-mouth and email us asking to buy. Real product, real users. ——— LOOMINOTE PRO • Unlimited voice, file & text capture • AI summaries + action items • Task scheduling from your notes • AI emails, posts, blogs, mind maps & quizzes • Apple Watch capture • Multi-device sync • Priority support Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24h before the period ends. Manage in your Apple ID settings. Privacy first. Your audio, files, and transcripts are stored securely and never shared and encrypted in between servers. Privacy: https://loominote.app/privacy Terms: https://loominote.app/terms Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SecondBrain
This app automatically transcribes, titles, and files your spoken thoughts, creating a self-organizing note system. It can convert voice notes into calendar events, provide daily summaries, and allow you to chat with your saved information.
- Automatic transcription and titling
- AI-powered self-organizing notes
- Voice to calendar event creation
- Daily morning briefing summaries
- Chat with your notes for answers
- 3D brain graph visualization
- Full-text search
- Cross-app sharing
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Most of what you hear, think and plan today is gone by tomorrow. Speak your mind. SecondBrain writes it down, gives it a title, and files it for you. No folders to manage. No typing. Just talk, and your thoughts organize themselves. The AI note app for people who think out loud. WHY SECONDBRAIN • Capture in seconds: speak, type, or share a thought and it is saved instantly • Zero organizing: AI transcribes, titles, and files every note into a self-building folder tree • Voice to schedule: say "dentist Tuesday 4pm" and it creates real events in Calendar and Reminders • Morning briefing: wake up to a daily summary of your day and what matters • Ask your brain: chat with your notes and get answers from everything you have saved • Brain graph: explore your ideas as a living 3D map of connected notes • Search everything: full-text search finds any note in an instant • Share from anywhere: send text, links, images, or audio from any app into SecondBrain • 20+ languages: speak in your language and get replies in your language BUILT FOR BUSY MINDS Founder juggling clients, student capturing lectures, or just someone with too many thoughts to hold? SecondBrain is the frictionless place to put them all. Brain-dump on the go and let the AI do the filing. WORKS WHERE YOU DO Your notes sync to the web at app.secondbrain.icu. Pro users can connect SecondBrain as memory for AI assistants through the MCP connector. SECONDBRAIN PRO Go unlimited: unlimited notes, unlimited AI capture and answers, plus the AI assistant connector. Start with a free trial, then subscribe yearly or monthly. Cancel anytime. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://secondbrain.icu/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Loominote at none against SecondBrain's shown. Loominote also leads on ratings volume (34 vs 3). SecondBrain's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Loominote sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SecondBrain sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Loominote against 5.0 for SecondBrain. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loominote has 34 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Loominote ships an update every 5 days, SecondBrain every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loominote | SecondBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 234 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BinaryVlue | Federico Cesarini |
Customer experience
Loominote
SecondBrain
In-app purchases
Loominote
- Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Weekly$9.997 Days
- Loominote Pro – Yearly Discounted$39.991 Year
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- Loominote Pro - Yearly$47.991 Year
- Loominote Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Loominote Yearly$49.991 Year
- Lifetime$199.99
SecondBrain
- SecondBrain Pro$8.991 Month
- SecondBrain Pro Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- SecondBrain Pro Yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year









