Cat Scratches vs MindNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Scratches
Streamline your web content workflow by sending articles and selected text directly to your writing app. This tool offers customization options for templates and tags, ensuring content is organized as you save it. It integrates seamlessly with your preferred writing environment and provides a fallback option for broader compatibility.
- Capture selected text or full pages
- Send content directly to Drafts
- Fallback to Share Sheet
- Customize templates, tags, and filters
- Sync extension settings with iCloud
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Cat Scratches is a Safari extension for sending clean website text to Drafts. It can also use the Share Sheet for Notes, Mail, Messages, and other apps. Automatically extract the main article body, or select text to clip a passage. Use it to: • Send the page title, source URL, and text to Drafts • Save captures to Notes or other apps through the Share Sheet • Convert captures to readable Markdown • Choose templates, tags, and cleanup settings How it works: 1. Enable the Cat Scratches Safari extension 2. Open a webpage in Safari 3. Run Cat Scratches 4. Review or edit the capture in Drafts, Notes, or another app Cat Scratches only reads a page when you run the extension. It does not track browsing history or collect data. Source code is available at https://github.com/ddegner/cat-scratches.
MindNote
Visually organize your thoughts and ideas with this intuitive mind mapping application. Create unlimited colorful maps, manage them with folders, and export your work in various formats. Features include auto-layout, outline view, and citation management.
- Unlimited mind map creation
- Folder organization
- Auto-layout for tidy maps
- Outline view
- Export to PDF/Markdown
- Footnote citation management
- iCloud sync
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MindNote is an elegant, simple, smooth, and efficient mind mapping app designed to help you think clearly, plan effectively, and organize your ideas visually. Features: • Create unlimited mind maps with colorful, connected nodes • Organize maps into folders for easy management • Auto-layout to keep your maps tidy • Outline view for a structured overview of your map • Export to PDF or Markdown • Import from Markdown to generate maps instantly • Footnote citation management with support for APA, MLA, Chicago, and more, also with customizable citation formats • iCloud sync keeps your maps up to date across all your Mac and iPhone devices • Supports both light and dark backgrounds for export • Floating quick actions and keyboard shortcut for fast editing Simple to start, powerful as you grow. Download MindNote and start mapping your thoughts today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MindNote at 5.0 against Cat Scratches's 4.0. Cat Scratches's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MindNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cat Scratches ships an update every 4 days, MindNote fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cat Scratches | MindNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Degner | Zhaoyuan Chen |
Customer experience
Cat Scratches
MindNote
In-app purchases
Cat Scratches
No in-app purchases
MindNote
No in-app purchases








