SpillStack vs Minds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpillStack
Capture and organize all your thoughts, from voice notes to text entries. This AI-powered tool automatically categorizes your input into tasks, ideas, projects, and more, providing summaries and tags for effortless management.
- Capture voice and text input
- AI-powered categorization
- Automatic summarization
- Automated tagging
- Organizes into tasks, ideas, projects, learning, research
- Cross-device compatibility
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SpillStack lets you dump anything (voice or text) into one place. The AI instantly reads it, understands it, and sorts it into: - Tasks - Ideas - Projects - Learning - Research and more. It adds summaries and tags automatically. Your thoughts go in messy... they come out organized.
Minds
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Speak it, snap it, or type it. Capture ideas by text, voice, or photo (OCR), and organize them into a clean mind map. Minds is a simple, lightweight, and completely free mind map app. ■ Three ways to capture — effortless Beyond the keyboard, jot ideas by voice or pull text from a photo with OCR. Get thoughts down without breaking your flow. ■ Clear and organized Nodes are auto-arranged into a tidy tree. Color-code, zoom/pan, and collapse subtrees to keep even large maps clean. ■ Search and export Tag items (with colors) and search across all your maps. Export to Markdown to move your work into other tools. ■ AI for a quick first draft (optional) If you like, generate a starter map from a conversation with AI — handy for brainstorming and planning drafts. ・Completely free ・Data stays on your device; iCloud sync is optional ・Works on iPhone, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro ・Great for organizing thoughts, brainstorming, meeting notes, and study Turn what's in your head into a map — just by speaking or snapping. *The optional AI generation feature requires your own API key for the AI service you use (Claude / OpenAI). The app itself and its core features are free and need no setup.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SpillStack at none against Minds's shown. SpillStack also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SpillStack ships an update daily, Minds every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpillStack | Minds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damian Mathews | Jun Tsuda |
In-app purchases
SpillStack
No in-app purchases
Minds
No in-app purchases









