StarStride vs Maho Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StarStride
This app creates hyper-personalized guided meditation sessions tailored to your specific needs and psychological profile. It uses your exact words to craft audio experiences that speak your language, offering a powerful tool for subconscious mind reprogramming.
- Hyper-personalized guided meditations
- Tailored to psychological profile
- Uses user's exact words
- Subconscious mind reprogramming
- Unique audio session creation
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Create Hyper-Personalized Guided Meditations For Any Problem Most meditation tools give you the same recordings as everyone else. A "one-sized fits all" experience that gets boring and doesn't hit deep. StarStride is different. It builds every single audio session specifically for you. Not "personalized" with your name dropped in. Genuinely personalized—using your exact words, your psychological profile, your unique way of seeing the world. This is the most powerful tool for reprogramming the subconscious mind because it speaks YOUR language. Privacy Policy: https://www.starstride.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.starstride.com/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Maho Notes
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Maho Notes is a markdown-based note-taking app for people who care about their words — and want to keep them. Every note is a plain .md file on your device. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in, no servers you don't control. Sync through your own iCloud, your own GitHub repo, or keep notes purely local — your choice. A NOTES APP THAT SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Full multilingual support, including search across English, 中文 (Traditional Chinese), 日本語 (Japanese), and 한국어 (Korean) — powered by a CJK-aware tokenizer that actually understands word boundaries in each language. Add furigana to Japanese kanji, Zhuyin to Mandarin, Tâi-lô to Taiwanese, or readings to Korean — all with one simple syntax: {漢字|ふりがな}. THREE WAYS TO SEARCH • Keyword search — fast SQLite FTS5 across every note • Semantic search — on-device vector embeddings find ideas, not just words • Hybrid — both, fused into one ranked list Models run entirely on-device. Nothing about your notes leaves your hardware. WRITTEN IN MARKDOWN, RENDERED BEAUTIFULLY • Full CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown • KaTeX math equations • Mermaid diagrams • Syntax-highlighted code blocks • Ruby annotations for any language • Image and asset embedding • Tables, task lists, footnotes ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Vaults hold collections. Collections hold notes. Drag-and-drop reordering, custom icons and colors, hierarchical sub-collections, and per-collection ordering — all stored in plain YAML you can read. SYNC THAT RESPECTS YOU • iCloud — seamless across your Apple devices • GitHub — version your notes as a private repo, sync through your own account using GitHub's official Device Flow login (no third-party server in the middle) • Device-only — keep everything offline Conflicts get clearly-named files (note.conflict-DeviceName.md), never silent overwrites. UNIVERSAL APP One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Optimized layouts for each: a focus-friendly stack on iPhone, a three-column workspace on iPad and Mac, with the same vault wherever you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Maho Notes at none against StarStride's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. StarStride sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Maho Notes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | StarStride | Maho Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRONSON ALAN BURDICK | Kuo-Chuan Pan |
In-app purchases
StarStride
- starstride minimum package$7.997 Days
Maho Notes
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









