Clastly vs MindNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clastly
Organize anything with custom collections and powerful field types. Track reading lists, travel memories, subscriptions, and more. Your data syncs securely via iCloud with a clean, native iOS interface.
- Customizable collections
- Multiple field types
- Pre-built templates
- Data filtering
- iCloud sync
- Ad-free experience
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Clastly is a personal database for collecting, organizing, and looking back on everything you love. Books, gadgets, travel memories, fandom, subscriptions—turn anything worth keeping into a collection shaped around you. Start quickly with templates: • Collection Catalog - Track purchase dates, condition, storage locations, and photos • Travel Log - Save places from maps or your current location • Fandom - Record concerts, merch, and favorite moments • Subscription Manager - Manage renewal dates, costs, and active services • Reading List - Organize covers, reading status, reviews, and reference URLs • Pet Diary - Capture daily moments, photos, and notes about your pets • Sauna & Spa - Record temperatures, facilities, and relaxation levels • Cafe Log - Log latte art, beans, and shop atmosphere • Movie Watchlist - Save memorable quotes, directors, and personal ratings Or start with Blank and create a structure of your own. Add fields that fit what you collect: • Text • Number • Date • Checkbox • Single Select • Multi Select • URL • Place • File • Created Time • Last Edited Time • Formula (Clastly Pro) • Relation (Clastly Pro) • Rollup (Clastly Pro) Customize your views: • List - Scan details quickly • Table - Compare and edit details in columns • Gallery - Browse records with photos • Masonry - Make the most of photos in different sizes • Board - Organize by status or category • Calendar - See dated records by month, week or day • Map - See saved places on a map Group, sort, and filter using your fields. Search within a collection or across collections, find records in Spotlight, and choose which details appear in each row. Group text by first letter, numbers by range, and dates by day, week, month, or year, and hide empty groups. Set end dates to record a period, and display numbers as currency, percentages or with a unit. You can also set a notification for a date and time you specify. Choose a notification or an urgent reminder that sounds an alarm (iOS or iPadOS 26 or later). One view per collection, all layouts, grouping, sorting and filtering remain free. Import and export data: You can also import CSV and TSV files to create collections. Collections created in Clastly can be exported as CSV. Back up all your data together and restore it when you need it. Capture from anywhere: Save photos, web pages, text, files, and Apple Maps places to Clastly from the share sheet. Home Screen widgets show a calendar, recent records, and collection counts, while widgets, the Lock Screen, and Control Center give you quick ways to add a new record. Clastly also works with Siri and Shortcuts. Automate opening collections, adding and editing records, updating fields, and searching your data. Private and synced: No ads. No social features. Your collections sync between iPhone and iPad with iCloud. With Clastly Pro (subscription), save multiple named views for each collection and switch between them. Search text in photos, scans and PDFs. Use formulas to calculate costs and dates, combine text, or show results based on conditions. View totals and averages for each group. Link records across collections with relations, and use rollups to total, average, or count values from linked records. Not for likes, but for yourself. Build a library just to collect and enjoy looking back at your treasures. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.clastly.com/privacy/
MindNote
Visually organize your thoughts and ideas with this intuitive mind mapping application. Create unlimited colorful maps, manage them with folders, and export your work in various formats. Features include auto-layout, outline view, and citation management.
- Unlimited mind map creation
- Folder organization
- Auto-layout for tidy maps
- Outline view
- Export to PDF/Markdown
- Footnote citation management
- iCloud sync
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MindNote is an elegant, simple, smooth, and efficient mind mapping app designed to help you think clearly, plan effectively, and organize your ideas visually. Features: • Create unlimited mind maps with colorful, connected nodes • Organize maps into folders for easy management • Auto-layout to keep your maps tidy • Outline view for a structured overview of your map • Export to PDF or Markdown • Import from Markdown to generate maps instantly • Footnote citation management with support for APA, MLA, Chicago, and more, also with customizable citation formats • iCloud sync keeps your maps up to date across all your Mac and iPhone devices • Supports both light and dark backgrounds for export • Floating quick actions and keyboard shortcut for fast editing Simple to start, powerful as you grow. Download MindNote and start mapping your thoughts today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MindNote at none against Clastly's 2. MindNote also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Clastly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. MindNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
MindNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Clastly ships an update every 11 days, MindNote every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Clastly | MindNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soji Takahashi | Zhaoyuan Chen |
Customer experience
Clastly
MindNote
In-app purchases
Clastly
- Pro Plan (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Plan (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
MindNote
No in-app purchases







