Comparison

BumbleUp vs Igneous

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

Head to head
About

BumbleUp

Organize your thoughts, projects, and knowledge in one private workspace. Create notes, manage tasks, and build a personal wiki with nested pages and two-way linking. All your data is stored locally, ensuring privacy and offline access.

Highlights
  • Note organization
  • Task management
  • Personal wiki creation
  • Nested file trees
  • Two-way linking
  • Offline access
  • Drag-and-drop reordering
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BumbleUp is your all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, and knowledge. Capture ideas, plan projects, and build your personal wiki – all offline, without accounts. Creativity & Planning: – Write and organize notes – Create dictionaries – simple tables with two columns – Manage task lists Knowledge Management: – Build personal wiki pages with nested file trees – Turn your notes into a digital Zettelkasten with two-way links – View the same data in multiple layouts Fast & User-Friendly Interface: – Reorder files with drag-and-drop – Preview file content directly in the list – Add notes to the right topic with a single tap Offline & Private: – No account or internet connection needed – No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions needed – Your data stays on your device Capture your ideas. Plan your journey. Master your knowledge.

About

Igneous

This app offers a gesture-driven approach to note-taking, allowing users to manage their Markdown files with one-handed navigation. It supports various cloud storage options and integrates features like voice notes, live Markdown rendering, and drawing capabilities.

Highlights
  • One-thumb gesture navigation
  • Plain Markdown file storage
  • iCloud Drive and Files integration
  • Live Markdown rendering
  • Voice note recording and transcription
  • Drawing and sketching canvases
  • Mac and offline synchronization
Features
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Igneous is a notes app you drive with one thumb. On iPhone there's no toolbar at the top of the screen: everything lives in one dock at the bottom, and it moves the way Safari's tab bar does. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — on your device, in iCloud Drive, or anywhere Files can reach — so they open in any other app, today and in twenty years. No account, no database, no analytics. GET ANYWHERE WITHOUT REACHING • Tap the pill in the dock to search every note, like tapping Safari's address bar. • Swipe it sideways to move between open notes, and keep going past the last one for a new note. • Swipe up on it and your open notes spread out as cards. • Swipe in from the left edge for your notebook, and from the right for the Inspector. • Pull down on a note to find a word in it. Hold any button for more. • While you read, the dock folds into a slim pill out of the way. Liquid Glass on iOS 26; solid with Reduce Transparency. • On iPad: a floating notebook pane, a real tab bar, and as many windows as Stage Manager will hold. CAPTURE THE MOMENT • Press the Action Button, a Lock Screen widget or a Control Center tile and you're typing in a new note — even from a closed app. • Record a voice note from the Action Button, Siri, the app icon or the note you're in. Igneous transcribes it on your device while you talk, shows the words on the Lock Screen, and saves the audio and transcript into today's note or a note of its own. • Copy a voice note — recording and transcript together — and paste it into Messages, Mail or another note. WRITE IN MARKDOWN, SEE IT BEAUTIFULLY • A live editor that renders headings, lists, tasks, tables, callouts, highlights, maths and diagrams as you type, while the file stays plain text. • A formatting bar just above the keyboard, and Writing Tools that keep your links and structure intact. • Wikilinks, embeds, backlinks, tags and a graph of how your notes connect. • Search every note instantly, including handwriting on your canvases. • Daily notes, a calendar, tasks gathered from every note, templates and a board view. DRAW WHEN WORDS WON'T DO • Canvases for sketches and diagrams, with Apple Pencil on iPad, beside cards and links to your notes. • Opens JSON Canvas and Excalidraw drawings. WORKS WITH YOUR MAC — AND OFFLINE • Keep a notebook in iCloud Drive ▸ Igneous and it's on all your devices. • Or pair with Igneous on your Mac over your own network: the phone keeps a full offline copy and sends its edits when it's back. Changes to different lines are combined, and if you both changed the same words, both versions are kept. Drawings merge shape by shape. • Nothing ever passes through a server of ours — there isn't one. SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND WIDGETS • Actions for new notes, today's note, tasks, search and voice notes, ready for Shortcuts and Siri. • Home Screen widgets with buttons you choose, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Focus filters and Live Activities. YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES Igneous reads Obsidian-flavoured Markdown as written and never adds anything you didn't ask for. Point it at the vault you already keep.

Screenshots

BumbleUp4 screens
Igneous4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BumbleUp at 5.0 against Igneous's 4.0. BumbleUp also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Igneous's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. Igneous sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BumbleUp asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BumbleUp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Igneous has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BumbleUp versus Igneous: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBumbleUpIgneous
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVojtech SodomaJASON RANDALL DORFMAN

In-app purchases

None

BumbleUp

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Igneous

One-time3
  • Small Tip$9.99
  • Medium Tip$24.99
  • Large Tip$49.99

Questions

Is BumbleUp free?
BumbleUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Igneous free?
Igneous is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BumbleUp or Igneous?
BumbleUp is rated higher. BumbleUp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Igneous averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do BumbleUp or Igneous have ads?
Neither BumbleUp nor Igneous shows ads.

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