Inkslate vs SecondBrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inkslate
This app combines notes, mind maps, and life management tools into a single workspace. Capture ideas, organize thoughts visually, and manage daily plans, recipes, and shopping lists without switching applications.
- Rich text notes
- Mind mapping for brainstorming
- Life management tools
- Distraction-free interface
- Unified workspace
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InkSlate: One workspace for your notes, plans, and life. Stop juggling a dozen different apps just to manage your day. InkSlate brings your entire life into one calm, focused, and beautifully organized home, perfectly synced via iCloud across your iPhone and iPad and Mac Everything you need in one place: - Notes & Journal: Capture your ideas, daily thoughts, and personal reflections. - Calendar & To-Dos: Manage your schedule and stay on top of daily tasks. - Budget: Track your finances and keep your spending under control. - Mind Maps: Brainstorm your biggest projects and map concepts visually. - Recipes & Places: Save your favorite meals and log your go-to locations. - Quotes & Watchlist: Keep track of inspiring words and media you want to watch.
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: Inkslate at none against SecondBrain's shown. Inkslate also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). SecondBrain's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Inkslate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 — 5.0 for Inkslate against 5.0 for SecondBrain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkslate | SecondBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucas Waldron | Federico Cesarini |
Customer experience
Inkslate
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In-app purchases
Inkslate
- InkSlate Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- InkSlate Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- InkSlate Pro Lifetime$49.99
SecondBrain
- SecondBrain Pro$8.991 Month
- SecondBrain Pro Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- SecondBrain Pro Yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year









