ORIGEN vs BLISS Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ORIGEN
This app provides a distraction-free environment for writers to capture ideas, organize projects, and develop narratives for screenplays, series, or books. It includes an AI writing assistant to help refine text and explore creative options.
- Story project management
- Screenplay, series, and book development
- AI writing assistant for text refinement
- Import PDFs and documents
- Distraction-free design
- Ideation and structure tools
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ORIGEN is a creative writing studio designed to help writers move from idea to finished work. Capture inspiration, organize projects, develop characters, build worlds, structure stories, and write without distraction. Whether you're creating a screenplay, novel, short story, series, or book, ORIGEN gives you a focused environment built specifically for storytellers. ORIGEN includes ORIGEN Assist, an intelligent writing companion designed to support your creative flow. When you select a line or passage, ORIGEN Assist can help you explore alternative phrasing, sharpen dialogue, or find a stronger next line — while keeping you fully in control of your voice and intent. You can start from a single idea, paste existing text, or import documents, then build naturally using projects, notes, and story elements designed around how creators actually think. ORIGEN isn’t about replacing writers or forcing templates. It’s about giving your ideas a place to emerge, evolve, and take form. FEATURES • Organize unlimited writing projects • Notes, story elements, and worldbuilding tools • Character and relationship tracking • Import Word and PDF documents • AI writing assistance with ORIGEN Assist • Clean distraction-free writing environment • Designed for novels, screenplays, books, and series • Cross-device synchronization Every story starts somewhere. This is the origin.
BLISS Note
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One pencil across every note. Ink on text notes, annotate PDFs, and keep notes inside notes — an all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ■ One pencil, every note • The same pen, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs and drawings — ballpoint, fountain pen and more • Handwriting and annotation right over your typed notes — page breaks keep ink on its page as you edit • Free-form canvas and A4 landscape, Letter, Square and B5 pages, lasso select & move, vector shapes • Convert handwriting to text, and write note titles in your own hand • Write small text comfortably in a magnified zoom-write strip ■ Planner & tasks • Task management — keep your to-dos in one place • Planner notes — add your schedule to a handwritten diary, sync with your iCloud calendar, and link a note to every event • Recurring events & lunar anniversaries — repeat daily to yearly or by the lunar calendar, and edit or delete this one, the following, or all ■ Exam prep & memorization • Question bank & wrong-answer notes — split an exam PDF into individual questions to drill; the ones you miss collect automatically and return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day review schedule • Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) — hide highlights and tap to reveal • D-day countdown — the days left until an exam or deadline, on the Home screen and inside notes ■ Record, transcribe & translate • Record meetings & lectures and turn them into text — organize & summarize with your AI • Live translation — transcripts and notes translated on-device, so it works offline (59 languages) • Play a recording from the note header, and save a transcript with its translation as a new note • Recording-handwriting sync — tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment, in a floating mini-player ■ Search anything • Full-text search across text and PDFs — plus your handwriting and recordings (transcripts) • In-note search — find text right inside the open note ■ Notes inside notes • Embed PDFs, drawings and other notes inside a text note • Organize a list of notes within one note using Shelves • List, Thumbnail, Bookshelf, Tabs, Tiles and Pinned view modes • Page grid view — all pages of PDF & drawing notes as thumbnails • YouTube playlist embed — play a playlist inside a note and track your watch progress • Split view — two notes side by side, to copy across and compare ■ Papers & documents in PDF • Import PDFs and mark up with pen, highlighter, underline • Reading mode — Sepia, Dim and Night soften the glare of white pages, while ink and annotations keep their colors • Automatic paper citations — title, authors, year & journal detected, with APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX ready to copy; use the detected title as the note title • Export original or with annotations (text stays selectable) ■ Annotate the web • Open a web page in the app, highlight it, add notes, and write on top with your pen • The original page is never stored — only your own annotations, kept on your device ■ Make it your own • Add a cover page to the front of a note and draw or write on it • Use your own images as note covers, or as the paper (background) for drawing notes • Turn any image into a sticker or washi tape to decorate your notes • Place your own drawing behind the Home screen — position, size and opacity ■ A powerful editor • Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks • Clean paste from anywhere — AI answers and web pages keep their Markdown & HTML formatting ■ Privacy first • No sign-up to start — your notes live on your device • No note servers of ours — optional cloud sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive • Available in 24 languages Study notes, research, lecture notes, planning, quick sketches — all in Bliss Note. Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ORIGEN at none against BLISS Note's 2. BLISS Note's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads, 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. BLISS Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ORIGEN asks for nothing beyond the download.
ORIGEN ships an update every 3 months, BLISS Note every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on June 30, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ORIGEN | BLISS Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CAMRYN CORDELL DEVON LOUIS JACKSON | BLISS AI Inc. |
In-app purchases
ORIGEN
No in-app purchases
BLISS Note
- Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$3.991 Year





