Brainee vs Nokosu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brainee
This app acts as a central hub for all your information, combining notes, tasks, and events. Organize your life with projects, areas, and custom tags, all accessible offline with a clean, intuitive interface. It's designed to help you capture everything and focus on what matters.
- Capture notes, tasks, events, files, and links
- Organize with projects, areas, and custom tags
- Plan with deadlines, priorities, and checklists
- Fully offline functionality
- Fast local search
- Distraction-free interface
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Brainee is a second brain that works offline, with no account. Brain dump tasks, notes, events, files and links into one life organizer, sorted into Areas and Projects. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Open the app and start capturing. You get the structure of a big workspace app without having to build a system first. Plan a trip or keep a private journal with ready-made project types. BRAIN DUMP NOW, SORT IT LATER — Toss anything into the Inbox and move it to a project when you're ready — Share links, photos and PDFs from any app straight to a project, folder or the Inbox — Long-press the app icon to take a photo, add a task, write a note or create an event — Saved links get a preview card with title and image ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE IN AREAS & PROJECTS — Areas for the big parts of life: Work, Personal, Health, Travel, Finance, Home — Projects inside each Area, with status, due date and a progress ring — Each project keeps its Tasks, Notes, Events, Files and Links together — Nested folders and tags keep every list tidy — Linked items connect a task to its note, file or event — Re-file in seconds with drag and drop, multi-select and Move to Project TASKS, NOTES & FILES IN ONE PLACE — Tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks and multiple reminders — Recurring tasks that repeat by due date or by completion date — Rich notes with headings, lists, checklists, quotes and photos — Images and PDFs with thumbnails, a photo gallery and a PDF reader PLAN YOUR DAYS — Calendar with Day, 3-Day, Week and Month views, for all projects or just one — Upcoming: your tasks and events in one list, with search and filters by Project, Area, type and priority — Overdue and No date groups keep late and undated items in view — Home Screen widget shows what's next. Check off tasks without opening the app. — 12-hour or 24-hour time, in the app and the widget PLAN A TRIP — Trip projects come ready with an Itinerary by day, To Do, Packing list, Documents, Places, Links, Photos and Notes — Packing list with one-tap suggestions: documents & money, electronics, toiletries, clothing and more — Turn a shared map link into a Place — Pick a cover photo and watch the countdown to departure KEEP A PRIVATE JOURNAL — Journal projects hold dated entries, written with the same text styles as notes — Backdate an entry to any past day and time — Add a mood (Bright, Good, Steady, Tense or Low) and photos from your camera or library — Keep a day streak, and switch the chart between a 6-month heatmap, a month calendar and 2 weeks of mood bars — Scroll your entries as a timeline, with photos on each card, or search them all — Entries stay on your device, like the rest of your Brainee data — Switch a project between General, Trip and Journal at any time. Nothing is moved or deleted; each type just shows a different view. PRIVATE BY DESIGN — Works offline: your data lives on your device — No account, no ads, no tracking — A few extras, like link previews, trip cover photo search and purchases, need an internet connection — Dark and light mode, haptic feedback, iPhone and iPad — Available in English and Spanish FREE & PREMIUM Brainee is free to start: up to 3 Areas and 5 Projects, with limits on items per project. Premium unlocks unlimited Areas, Projects, tasks, notes, events, folders, links and Inbox items, plus files up to 100 MB and image compression. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once with Lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them. Let Brainee hold them for you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trybrainee.app/privacy
Nokosu
Capture fleeting thoughts and inspirations on a clean, clutter-free interface. Organize notes effortlessly by stacking them into folders or using drag-and-drop. Unlock advanced features like favorites, nested folders, and custom themes with an optional Pro subscription.
- Fast idea capture
- Stacking for automatic folder creation
- Drag & drop organization
- Customizable themes (Pro)
- Favorites and nested folders (Pro)
- iCloud sync (Pro)
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Nokosu is an app for instantly "keeping" memos, to-dos, camera photos, album images, and more. With its simple, effortless feel, you can jot down your thoughts just as they come. ■ Capture the moment One button in the bottom-right corner. Text, a photo you snap on the spot, or an image from your library — save it the instant it comes to mind. ■ Memos and to-dos Text you want to keep goes in a memo; things to get done go in a to-do. Both are just as quick to save the moment they come to mind — and you can switch between memo and to-do anytime. ■ Stack to organize Just stack one memo onto another and a new folder is created automatically. Things tidy themselves with a simple touch. ■ Drag & drop, freely Move memos and folders anywhere with drag & drop. Reorder them, move them in and out of folders — everything just as you like. ■ Look back on the calendar You can browse your memos on a calendar, by the date they were created. ■ iCloud sync Sync your memos in real time across devices signed in with the same Apple ID. ■ Bookmarks Bookmark important memos and call them up anytime from the Bookmarks list. ― Nokosu Pro ― A monthly plan that bundles features for keeping things even more conveniently. ■ Nested folders The free version lets you create folders at the top level only; with Pro, you can also create folders on deeper levels. ■ Locked Folder Lock sensitive memos, images, and folders with Face ID. Nothing in the Locked Folder appears on Home, in search, or in any list, and you can move existing memos, images, and folders into it. ■ Full history in Memos & Images On the Memos and Images pages, look back at memos and images older than one month. ■ All themes available In addition to the default Light theme, dress up the app with Dark, Beige, Navy, and White. ■ Customize how folders look Set a color and an icon for each folder. The free version comes with the basic colors, and Pro unlocks every color and every icon. ■ Quick input The keyboard appears the moment you open the app, so you can start writing right away without tapping the input button. ■ Lock Screen widget Create a note or add a photo with a single tap from the Nokosu widget on your Lock Screen. ■ Control Center widget Create a note or add a photo with a single tap from the Nokosu widget in Control Center or on the Action button. ■ Save to Photos too When you capture a photo memo in the app, you can also copy the photo to your Photo Library. Terms of Use https://nokosu.app/en/terms/ Privacy Policy https://nokosu.app/en/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Brainee at 16.4 against Nokosu's 26.0. On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Brainee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Nokosu sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brainee | Nokosu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Hryn | Yuto Sasaki |
Customer experience
Brainee
Nokosu
In-app purchases
Brainee
- Brainee Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Brainee Premium Yearly$44.991 Year
Nokosu
- Nokosu Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month








