Lucid vs bryteNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucid
Organize your thoughts with a minimalist, gesture-driven note-taking app. Connect and nest ideas fluidly with block-based editing. Bookmark sections and navigate easily with intuitive gestures.
- Minimalist and intuitive design
- Fluid, block-based editing
- Gesture-driven navigation
- Bookmark any section
- Spacebar caret navigation
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■ Beautifully minimal Intuitive & clean design that keeps you in the flow. A note-taking app that gets out of your way. ■ Connect ideas Organize thoughts as they form. Freely move and nest ideas with fluid, block-based editing. ■ Gesture driven • Swipe right to focus on any subsection • Swipe left to collapse a section • Navigate through parent blocks by swiping from the edge • Pull down to add a block at the top or tap empty space to add at the bottom ■ Other features • Bookmark any section, not just top-level notes • Easily move the caret between blocks by holding the spacebar (not possible in other outliners) ■ Roadmap Lucid is in early development and many more features are coming soon: • External links • Bidirectional linking • Desktop app & iCloud sync • More themes and customization options For the philosophy and reasoning behind the app, visit https://thelucidnotes.com/
bryteNotes
Capture your thoughts instantly without navigating menus or folders. Organize them later or use the AI-powered Spark feature to reflect and process ideas. Your thoughts are private and securely stored.
- Instant thought capture
- AI-powered idea reflection (Spark)
- Flexible organization (Inbox/Folders)
- 30-day deleted item recovery
- Private and secure by design
- Light/Dark mode options
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bryteNotes is the fastest place to get a thought out of your head. Open the app, type, and it's saved. No folders to pick first, no menus in the way, nothing standing between you and getting it down. Thoughts land in your Inbox, and you can sort them into folders whenever it's convenient, or never. Either way works. Whenever you want to think something through instead of just filing it away, bring it to Spark. Spark reacts like a close friend texting back, not a productivity coach or a chatbot waiting for a prompt. It already knows what you meant, no blank screen, no awkward opener. A few other things worth knowing: Deleted a thought by mistake? It sits safely for 30 days before it's gone for good, one tap to restore. Your thoughts are private by design, protected so only you can ever read them, and you can permanently delete your account and all your data at any time. Light, dark, or matched to your system, your choice. bryteNotes isn't trying to be a filing system. It's built for the moment a thought first shows up, and for having somewhere to actually talk it through afterward. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internal/terms/site/itunes-store/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: bryteNotes at weekly against Lucid's every 2 weeks. bryteNotes also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lucid against 5.0 for bryteNotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lucid ships an update every 2 weeks, bryteNotes weekly. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Lucid | bryteNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | illia chaban | Joy Sarker |
Customer experience
Lucid
bryteNotes
In-app purchases
Lucid
No in-app purchases
bryteNotes
No in-app purchases








