Note Bucket vs ThinkAloud Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note Bucket
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Your phone became a junk drawer. Messages, screenshots, PDF, links. all saved “for later”. and later never comes. NoteBucket turns the flood into two clear buckets. Do for action. Know for reference. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://notebucket.app/privacy
ThinkAloud Notes
Record your thoughts and let on-device AI transform them into structured notes with titles, tags, and links. Your data stays private on your phone, with no accounts or subscriptions required. Access and manage your notes as standard Markdown files.
- Voice, photo, and text input
- On-device AI note generation
- Automatic tagging and linking
- Ask questions about your notes
- Knowledge graph creation
- Markdown file export
- Optional cloud sync
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You think out loud. ThinkAloud writes it down. Hit record and just talk: a passing idea, a meeting, a whole lecture. When you stop, you can play the recording back and decide whether it's worth keeping before anything happens to it. Only then does the on-device AI turn it into a real note, with a title, some structure, tags, and links to the related notes you already have. Here's the part that matters. All of this happens on your phone. ThinkAloud runs Google's Gemma model locally, so your voice and your notes never get uploaded anywhere. There's no account to create, no server in the middle, and nothing to pay every month. You download the model once, and after that it works offline. Your notes are just Markdown files in an ordinary folder, the same format Obsidian uses. Point ThinkAloud at a vault you already have, or let it keep one for you. Either way you can open, edit, or back them up with any app you like. Nothing is trapped inside. What it's good at: - Voice, photos, or quick text go in; clean, tagged notes come out - Ask your notes a question in plain language and get an answer with its sources listed, so you can tap straight through to where each fact came from - A knowledge graph that builds itself as your notes start linking up - Full-text search, tags, folders, and checklists - Optional sync to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Your account, a private folder, no servers of mine in between. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts. I made ThinkAloud because I wanted a notebook that was actually mine. That's the whole idea. The on-device model needs around 3 GB of free space and a fairly recent device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ThinkAloud Notes at none against Note Bucket's 1. Note Bucket's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Note Bucket sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. ThinkAloud Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Note Bucket | ThinkAloud Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NoteBucket | Ghanashyam Vinod Tatti |
In-app purchases
Note Bucket
- NoteBucket Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
ThinkAloud Notes
No in-app purchases
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