Pensieve Note vs CardsMind+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pensieve Note
Capture and organize your thoughts with a unique note-taking experience. Pin notes to real-world locations using augmented reality, set location-based reminders, and secure private thoughts with a hidden folder. Offers rich text formatting, drawing, voice notes, and powerful organization tools.
- Augmented reality note placement
- Location-based reminders
- Hidden folder for private notes
- Rich text formatting and drawing
- Voice notes with transcription
- One-sentence journaling timeline
- Custom folders and tagging
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Pensieve Note is where your thoughts find a home — beautiful, organized, and always within reach. Inspired by the magical memory vessel, this app transforms how you capture, organize, and revisit your ideas. PLACE MEMORIES IN THE REAL WORLD Use augmented reality to pin notes to physical locations. Leave a reminder at your favorite coffee shop, attach study notes to your desk, or create a memory trail through your city. Your notes exist in space, not just on screen. LOCATION-BASED REMINDERS Never forget what you needed to remember. Set notes to notify you when you arrive at specific places — grocery lists at the store, talking points before meetings, or reminders when you get home. GHOST MODE — YOUR SECRET SPACE Some thoughts deserve extra privacy. Ghost Mode creates a hidden folder protected by a secret code — invisible to anyone browsing your notes. Your private journal, secure ideas, or surprise plans stay truly private. BEAUTIFUL NOTE-TAKING - 15+ paper styles: College ruled, dot grid, graph paper, Cornell notes, and more - Rich text formatting with colors and styles - Draw and sketch with Apple Pencil support - Add photos, stickers, and voice recordings - Handwriting recognition that converts writing to text VOICE NOTES & TRANSCRIPTION Record your thoughts and let the app transcribe them automatically. Perfect for capturing ideas on the go, recording lectures, or quick voice memos that become searchable text. ONE SENTENCE JOURNALING Build a life timeline, one sentence at a time. Daily prompts help you capture moments that matter. Over time, watch your story unfold in a beautiful, scrollable timeline. POWERFUL ORGANIZATION - Custom folders with beautiful cover images - Tags for cross-referencing notes - Pin important notes to the top - Smart search across all content - Mind maps to visualize connections SECURITY & SYNC - Face ID and Touch ID app lock - iCloud sync across all your devices - Export notes as PDF - Import from other note apps Your thoughts deserve more than plain text files. Give them a home that is as unique as the ideas themselves. Download Pensieve Note and start capturing memories that last. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/pensieve-note/60d88c90-b919-46f7-a7e2-41eefa18708c/privacy
CardsMind+
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Turn PDFs, videos & web pages into mind maps - and actually remember them. CardMind+ combines mind mapping, document learning, and flashcard review into one seamless workflow: capture knowledge, make it yours, and lock it into long-term memory. IMPORT EVERYTHING YOU LEARN FROM - PDF, PPT, Word & EPUB: all your study materials, in one place - Web pages: save articles and turn online reading into structured mind maps - Videos: import lectures and tutorials, grab frames & clips while you watch, and compare them with your map side by side - TouchNotes: open your TouchNotes documents in one tap, from annotations to structured thinking EXTRACT. DON'T TRANSCRIBE. - One-tap extraction: pull text, charts, and video clips straight into knowledge cards (text selection, rectangle capture, and video capture supported) - Multimodal cards: mix text, images, and whiteboard handwriting on any card, capturing ideas the way they appear in your head EVERY IDEA STAYS CONNECTED TO ITS SOURCE - Tap any mind map node to jump back to the exact paragraph in the original document - or the exact frame in the video - A clean bookshelf organizes your mind maps, documents, and flashcards in a tree structure: find anything in seconds FROM UNDERSTANDING TO REMEMBERING - Turn mind map cards into flashcards with one tap - no re-typing - Review on a schedule based on the forgetting curve, so short-term memory becomes long-term knowledge Built for students, researchers, and lifelong learners. Download CardMind+ and build your second brain today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CardsMind+ at 15.3 against Pensieve Note's 18.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pensieve Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and CardsMind+ sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Pensieve Note | CardsMind+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 306 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mena Soliman | 广东新空电子科技股份有限公司 |
In-app purchases
Pensieve Note
- Pensieve Note Pro$2.991 Month
- Pensieve Note Pro$29.991 Year
CardsMind+
- 1年VIP$2.99
- 永久VIP$6.99









