Comparison

MindWoods vs Taskdan

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

Head to head
About

MindWoods

Organize your thoughts and projects with a visual canvas. Create mind maps, illustrated journals, and sketch collections. Connect ideas with named relationships and customize your workspace with themes and fonts. Export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Create mind maps, journals, and sketch collections
  • Connect ideas with named relationships
  • Combine notes with photos and hand-drawn stickers
  • Customize themes, fonts, and toolbar
  • Search and organize ideas
  • Export work as PNG, PDF, Markdown, and JSON
Features
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Give your ideas room to grow with MindWoods. Make a mind map, keep an illustrated journal, plan a project, or collect sketches and inspiration in a garden of connected ideas. WRITE, READ, AND CONNECT Start with a title, then add notes and images. Arrange idea cards on the canvas, connect them with named relationships, and return to the full text when you want to read or edit. Batch entry helps you capture several ideas at once. MAKE THE CANVAS YOURS Combine notes with photo and hand-drawn stickers. Reuse creations from your personal sticker library, pair stickers with ideas, group objects, and organize their stacking order. Choose a theme and customize the toolbar around the tools you use most. Style each idea with classic or handwritten fonts, bold, italic, card colors and three levels, then let Auto Layout tidy up or arrange the garden by level. KEEP ORGANIZING Search your ideas, start from a template, and use garden history and the recycle bin to revisit earlier versions or recover content. EXPORT YOUR WORK Share a canvas as PNG, export a PDF with a canvas overview and complete notes, or use Markdown and JSON exports to take your work with you. START FREE, ADD PRO WHEN YOU NEED IT Free creation includes one garden with up to 10 ideas and selected templates. All themes, export formats, and basic iCloud features are included. MindWoods Pro is a one-time in-app purchase, with no subscription. It adds unlimited gardens and ideas, all templates, unlimited drawing (3 drawings are free), Markdown import, and on-device model summaries on supported devices. No MindWoods account is required. iCloud features require signing in to iCloud and enabling iCloud Drive in system settings. Model summaries also depend on the system version, device, region, language, and Apple Intelligence availability.

About

Taskdan

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TaskDan is a task manager where you complete tasks by flicking cards upward into the completion zone. Instead of tapping a checkbox, send a finished task flying with your finger. TaskDan adds a satisfying physical gesture to the everyday act of getting things done. Create separate projects for work, household tasks, shopping, personal projects, or anything else. Swipe between projects and keep each set of tasks organized. Main Features ・Organize tasks by project ・Add, edit, and delete tasks ・Save a title and memo for each task ・Complete tasks with an upward flick ・Enjoy completion animations, sound, and haptic feedback ・See cards return to their original position when a flick is not completed ・Check the number of tasks completed today ・View completed tasks by date ・Undo completed tasks ・Back up your data ・Restore data from a backup file Task and project data is stored locally on your iPhone. No account registration is required, and the app can be used without an internet connection. Add a task, then flick its card upward. When the gesture has enough distance or speed, the card flies into the completion zone and the task is completed.

Screenshots

MindWoods4 screens
Taskdan3 screens

Verdict

The call

MindWoods and Taskdan are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindWoods ships an update weekly, Taskdan every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MindWoods versus Taskdan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindWoodsTaskdan
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerwu zhaodongDaisaku Mori

In-app purchases

None

MindWoods

No in-app purchases

None

Taskdan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MindWoods free?
MindWoods is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Taskdan free?
Taskdan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MindWoods or Taskdan have ads?
Neither MindWoods nor Taskdan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindWoods or Taskdan?
MindWoods ships an update weekly, and Taskdan every 10 days. Most recently, MindWoods was updated on October 28, 2026 and Taskdan on October 25, 2026.

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