Comparison

Lucid vs bryteNotes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Minimalist and intuitive design
  • Fluid, block-based editing
  • Gesture-driven navigation
  • Bookmark any section
  • Spacebar caret navigation
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Lucid4 screens
bryteNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lucid ships an update every 2 weeks, bryteNotes weekly. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lucid versus bryteNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLucidbryteNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings55
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB32 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developerillia chabanJoy Sarker

Customer experience

Lucid

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

bryteNotes

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lucid

No in-app purchases

None

bryteNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lucid free?
Lucid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is bryteNotes free?
bryteNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lucid or bryteNotes?
Lucid and bryteNotes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Lucid or bryteNotes have ads?
Neither Lucid nor bryteNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lucid or bryteNotes?
Lucid ships an update every 2 weeks, and bryteNotes weekly. Most recently, Lucid was updated on October 14, 2026 and bryteNotes on October 14, 2026.

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