Comparison

MindWoods vs ShuffleNote

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

ShuffleNote

Features
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ShuffleNote is a lightweight note app for capturing ideas quickly and rediscovering them later. Instead of treating notes as a static archive, ShuffleNote turns saved thoughts into cards you can shuffle, like, skip, and rank. It is built for people who want old notes to resurface at the right moment without turning note-taking into a heavy project system. Key features - Fast writing screen for immediate capture - Auto-save based on a configurable interval - Shuffle mode for reviewing notes in a random order - Like, skip, and back actions for quick review - Ranking view for notes you keep returning to - Search and sort across all saved notes - Optional location capture for location-aware notes - Markdown export for keeping a portable backup - Korean and English interface options ShuffleNote stores notes on device. Location access is optional and is used only to attach a place to notes and filter nearby notes when the user enables those flows.

Screenshots

MindWoods4 screens
ShuffleNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ShuffleNote at 4 against MindWoods's 2. ShuffleNote also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

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, ShuffleNote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MindWoods versus ShuffleNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindWoodsShuffleNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerwu zhaodongSANGMIN JUNG

In-app purchases

None

MindWoods

No in-app purchases

None

ShuffleNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MindWoods free?
MindWoods is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShuffleNote free?
ShuffleNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MindWoods or ShuffleNote have ads?
Neither MindWoods nor ShuffleNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MindWoods or ShuffleNote?
MindWoods ships an update weekly, and ShuffleNote every 5 days. Most recently, MindWoods was updated on October 25, 2026 and ShuffleNote on October 24, 2026.

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