Comparison

Declutter vs PaperThoughts

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

Head to head
About

Declutter

Transform cluttered rooms into organized sanctuaries with an AI assistant. Snap a photo of any messy area, and the AI will generate an organized vision, analyze items to remove, and provide a tailored checklist of actionable steps to achieve your goal.

Highlights
  • AI-powered room visualization
  • Smart space analysis with item counts
  • Tailored decluttering checklists
  • Progress tracking
  • Project history
  • Pro subscription for full features
Features
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Make home care manageable, one room and one small step at a time. DAILY ROOM ROUTINES Create rooms and recurring tasks for cleaning, organizing and laundry. Set a daily time budget, see what is due, and follow a guided reset with a timer. Customize rooms, use task templates, set reminders and track completed work. PHOTO PLAN FIRST Take or upload a room photo. Choose to clear clutter using what you already own, or explore organization and storage ideas suited to your budget and effort. Let Declutter suggest a plan, or review what to keep, remove or decide on later. Get a practical checklist from your original photo first. Generate an optional room preview when you want it; your saved steps and completed tasks stay intact. Ask follow-up questions about the plan and import selected steps into your room routines. KEEP YOUR PROGRESS Save photo projects and check off steps as you go. Daily home-care routines work offline and stay on this device. AI photo tools need an internet connection. DECLUTTER PRO Start with one room and its daily routine. A Pro subscription adds more rooms and access to AI photo plans, previews and room chat. Subscription options and prices are shown in the app. Privacy Policy https://privacy.ftw-labs.com/ EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PaperThoughts

Features
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A quiet place to think. PaperThoughts is a private, handwriting-first journal for iPad. Write by hand with your Apple Pencil, sketch in the margins, and keep every entry to yourself. WRITE BY HAND • Natural Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing • Blank, lined, grid, or dotted paper in multiple sizes and colours • Journaling prompts when you don't know where to start drop a question onto the page and answer it in ink • Prefer to type? Typed entries are always a long-press away REMEMBER THE MOMENT • Tag entries, set a mood, and pin the place they happened drop the pin on a map yourself, wherever the entry belongs • Add photos alongside your handwriting or leave a placeholder slot on the page and fill it with the photo later • Find things again with filters by journal, place, tag, or date WORKS WHEREVER YOU DO • No connection needed write, sketch, and read your journals fully offline • At the cabin, on the trail, in the air: your journal lives on your device, and syncs through your own iCloud when you're back online • Day or night — a dark mode that keeps the page calm WATCH YOUR PRACTICE GROW • Streaks and gentle insights: how often you write, and the places your entries have taken you • Bookmark the pages you return to • Export entries or whole journals to PDF anytime your words are never locked in PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your entries live on your device and in your own iCloud — nowhere else • No account, no sign-up, and nothing to log in to • No analytics, no tracking, no servers of ours: we have no way to read what you write • Moods are saved to Apple Health on your device; App Lock uses Face ID or Touch ID without biometric data ever leaving it ON IPHONE • A companion for reading your journals and capturing quick typed notes the Pencil stays the star on iPad PAPERTHOUGHTS PREMIUM The free app includes 3 journals with 5 entries each — enough to make it yours. Premium removes every limit, with a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://paperthoughts.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Declutter4 screens
PaperThoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PaperThoughts at none against Declutter's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Declutter sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and PaperThoughts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Declutter ships an update weekly, PaperThoughts every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Declutter versus PaperThoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeclutterPaperThoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (60 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperALAATTIN OZKAYACody Nicoll

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Declutter

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Annual$39.991 Year
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  • Yearly Plan$49.991 Year
3 purchases

PaperThoughts

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Declutter free?
Declutter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaperThoughts free?
PaperThoughts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Declutter or PaperThoughts have ads?
Declutter shows ads; PaperThoughts does not.
Which is updated more often, Declutter or PaperThoughts?
Declutter ships an update weekly, and PaperThoughts every 8 days. Most recently, Declutter was updated on October 8, 2026 and PaperThoughts on October 6, 2026.

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