Comparison

Hello Haven vs NeuralNotepad

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

Head to head
About

Hello Haven

This AI assistant acts as your second brain, organizing your life and taking action on your behalf. It helps manage schedules, to-do lists, and information through various communication methods, offering personalized suggestions and reminders. Your privacy is paramount, with data remaining yours and never sold or used for model training.

Highlights
  • AI-powered organization
  • Personalized information management
  • Multi-channel communication
  • Context-aware suggestions
  • Privacy-focused data handling
  • Schedule and to-do management
Features
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Meet Haven, the AI that actually knows you. Your life is full and fast. A packed schedule, a running to-do list, a hundred tabs open at any moment, and a brain that was never meant to hold all of it. Haven helps you carry it. Haven is your second brain. It holds everything important to you, organizes it, distills it, and takes action on your behalf, so you spend less time managing information and more time living. Reach Haven however works for you. Call and talk it through. Text. Email. Message in the app. One conversation, everywhere. Haven knows your life. Send a photo of your fridge and get a dinner idea that fits what you have and how you eat. Get your day organized around what matters, at the right time for each thing. Haven remembers your family's schedules and the details you shouldn't have to. Haven looks out for you. It checks in, surfaces what matters before you ask, and quietly handles the noise. Your life stays yours. Privacy is the foundation. Your data belongs to you, full stop. We never sell it, and it is never used to train the models behind Haven. Built for busy parents, solo founders, empty nesters, and anyone who wants a calmer, more present life. Download Hello Haven.

About

NeuralNotepad

This app transforms your scattered thoughts into coherent journal entries using on-device AI. It automatically identifies patterns, tracks your mood, and creates summaries, all while keeping your data private. Capture ideas effortlessly through typing or voice.

Highlights
  • AI-generated daily journal entries
  • Automatic mood tracking from notes
  • Echo feature for connecting past notes
  • On-device AI processing for privacy
  • Voice capture with on-device transcription
  • Smart reminders for dates mentioned in notes
Features
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NeuralNotepad is a journal that writes itself. Jot down whatever's on your mind — a thought, a worry, something funny your kid said — and keep moving. No prompts, no forms, no friction. NeuralNotepad quietly does the rest: Echo recognizes when something you're writing connects to a note from days or weeks ago, and surfaces it right in the moment — so patterns in your thinking become visible instead of buried in a list. AI Journal clusters your day's scattered notes into a coherent end-of-day entry, written in your own words, so you get the reflective habit of journaling without the blank-page effort. Mood tracking turns your notes into a heatmap of how you've been feeling over time, with zero extra logging — it's inferred from what you already wrote. Voice capture lets you talk instead of type, with on-device transcription. Smart reminders notice when a note mentions a date — "dentist next Tuesday," "call Mom this weekend" — and offer to turn it into a Reminder, with one tap. Everything — the embeddings, the sentiment analysis, the journal generation, the entity extraction — runs locally using on-device intelligence. Your notes aren't sent to a server to make any of this work. NeuralNotepad Free includes unlimited note-taking, Echo recall, and mood tracking, plus one AI Journal generation per day. NeuralNotepad Pro ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) unlocks unlimited AI Journal generations and Reminders integration. NeuralNotepad is for anyone who has something to say but doesn't have time to sit down and "journal properly." Say it once. Let NeuralNotepad do the rest. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mkamai.github.io/neuralnotepad-support/privacy

Screenshots

Hello Haven4 screens
NeuralNotepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: NeuralNotepad at 5.0 against Hello Haven's 4.4. NeuralNotepad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%). Hello Haven's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 2) and monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

NeuralNotepad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello Haven has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Hello Haven's written reviews are positive against 100% of NeuralNotepad's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hello Haven versus NeuralNotepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHello HavenNeuralNotepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (31 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHello Haven, Inc.Maruti Kampli

Customer experience

Hello Haven

All ratings29 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative19.0%

NeuralNotepad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hello Haven

No in-app purchases

None

NeuralNotepad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hello Haven free?
Hello Haven is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NeuralNotepad free?
NeuralNotepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hello Haven or NeuralNotepad?
NeuralNotepad is rated higher. Hello Haven averages 4.4 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while NeuralNotepad averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Hello Haven or NeuralNotepad have ads?
Neither Hello Haven nor NeuralNotepad shows ads.

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