Inner City vs Mena
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inner City
This app transforms habit tracking into a city-building experience. As you complete daily habits and personal goals, you'll unlock new buildings and watch your virtual city expand. It offers a simple, distraction-free design with all data stored locally for privacy.
- Track daily habits and goals
- Build and grow a virtual city
- Unlock unique buildings
- Simple, calming design
- Local data storage
- Works offline
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Inner City is a habit tracker that turns your daily progress into a growing city. Instead of checking off boring lists, you’ll build a world — one habit at a time. Complete habits, unlock new buildings, and watch your Inner City expand as you stay consistent. FEATURES: • Track daily habits and personal goals • Build and grow a city through real progress • Unlock unique buildings as rewards • Simple, calming design with no distractions • All data stored locally on your device — no accounts required No Ads. No Tracking. No Logins. Inner City is fully private and works offline. Start small. Stay consistent. Build something meaningful. Download Inner City and begin growing your city today.
Mena
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Private visual notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Build mind maps on an infinite canvas, study with FSRS flashcards, and sync through your private iCloud storage — no account required. Mena is an infinite canvas and visual second brain for iPad. Sketch ideas, build mind maps, embed media, and turn any board into spaced-repetition flashcards you actually review — no account required. Infinite canvas Pan, zoom, and draw with no page limits. Pastel sticky notes, shapes and connectors for mind maps and flowcharts, frames, tables, and 19 polygon shapes. Apple Pencil support with Draw to Shape — sketch a rough shape and Mena snaps it perfect. Every kind of content Drop anything onto your board: sticky notes, rich text and Markdown, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, PDFs with full page navigation, video, audio files, and live maps. Record voice memos directly on the canvas — ink drawn during recording is seekable by playback time. Web embeds and URL preview cards keep sources right where you need them. Paper templates Note pages come in blank, lined, dotted, and grid. Change one page or every blank page at once, and choose auto, light, or dark paper independently of your system theme. The same page renders identically in the reader, sidebar, overview grid, library thumbnail, and exported PDF. Study with FSRS Turn any deck board into spaced-repetition flashcards. Mena uses FSRS — the most accurate scheduling algorithm available — to surface cards exactly when you need them. Again / Hard / Good / Easy grading with interval preview. Cloze deletion with one tap. Auto-generate flashcards from your notes on-device, no network needed. Study dashboard Track your streak, retention rate, and 14-day due forecast. See today's review count at a glance. Import and export decks Import any .apkg file directly. Mena imports your cards, scheduling data, embedded images, and cloze deletions. Export any deck back as .apkg. Slides & presentation Draw a frame around anything and it becomes a slide. Open the filmstrip panel, jump to any slide, present full-screen, or export the whole deck as a crisp PDF. 6 board types Board — infinite whiteboard. Note — vertical scroll page. Journal — one auto-created page per day. Atlas — a spatial map of all your boards. Document — PDFs, scans and images read page by page and marked up with Apple Pencil. Deck — FSRS study deck with review session. Home screen widgets 4 widget types for home screen and lock screen: Quick Capture (today's note in one tap), Board Preview (live thumbnail of any board), Today's Study (due count, streak, retention), and Deck (per-deck stats). All fully configurable. Share from anywhere A share extension catches text, links, images, PDFs, and videos from any other app — tap Share → Mena, pick a board, done. Private iCloud sync Every board, element, and attachment syncs across your Apple devices through your private iCloud CloudKit database. No Mena account. No third-party cloud server stores your Mena content. Flashcard generation runs on-device. Optional web embeds and Unsplash search connect only when you choose to use them. Mena fits how your brain actually works — capture, connect, and remember. Free & Pro Free covers 3 boards, 3 notes, 3 documents and 5 decks; journals and system boards are never limited. Mena Pro lifts every limit — Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly renew automatically, Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase. iCloud sync is free on every plan. Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly start with a 1-week free trial for eligible new subscribers; the subscription is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Prices appear in the app before you buy, and you can restore purchases at any time. Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mena/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Inner City at none against Mena's 3. Inner City also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). Mena's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). 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. Mena sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Inner City asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inner City ships an update fortnightly, Mena every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inner City | Mena |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Lewandowski | Cihat Salik |
In-app purchases
Inner City
No in-app purchases
Mena
- Pro Monthly: Flowchart Notes$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Diagram & Quiz7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Pro Forever: Concept Mapping$49.99









