Shared Love Widget vs Thanks, Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shared Love Widget
Connect with loved ones by sharing notes, photos, countdowns, and doodles on a private widget board. Keep important people close by seeing updates directly on your Home Screen.
- Private shared widget boards
- Notes, photos, stickers, and doodles
- Countdowns and count ups
- Live-synced Home Screen widgets
- Up to 6 people per board
- Customizable board styles
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ScrapBoard is a shared Home Screen widget that keeps couples, partners, besties, close friends, roommates, and family connected through notes, photos, countdowns, count ups, doodles, stickers, memories, and updates. Create private board with your people, add it to your Home Screen with ScrapBoard+, and see new photos, reminders, countdowns, love notes, and moments appear right where you glance. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a ScrapBoard for your partner, friends, family, roommate, or close circle 2. Invite up to 6 people to the board 3. Add notes, photos, stickers, doodles, emojis, countdowns, count ups, and memories 4. With ScrapBoard+, add the shared board as a Home Screen widget 5. When the board updates, everyone sees the latest version FOR YOUR CLOSE PEOPLE • Make a cute shared space with your partner, bestie, close friends, family, or roommates • Keep memories, reminders, inside jokes, plans, love notes, photos, and daily updates in one place • No followers, no likes, no public feed — just the people who matter • Perfect for couples, long distance relationships, best friends, family boards, and private shared widgets LIVE SYNCED WIDGETS • Turn your board into a shared Home Screen widget • See new photos, notes, doodles, countdowns, count ups, stickers, and memories from your people • Use it as a couple widget, bestie widget, friendship widget, family widget, relationship widget, or photo widget • Keep your favorite people close without opening another group chat COUNTDOWNS & COUNT UPS • Count how many days you’ve been together • Countdown to birthdays, trips, anniversaries, parties, holidays, concerts, graduations, and reunions • Track relationship milestones, friendship memories, family events, and important dates NOTES, PHOTOS, STICKERS & DOODLES • Add shared notes, photo memories, cute reminders, stickers, emojis, captions, and doodles • Build a mood board, memory board, sticky note board, photo widget, vision board, or mini scrapbook • Make your board romantic, chaotic, cozy, aesthetic, funny, useful, or completely unserious ONE BOARD, UP TO 6 PEOPLE • Invite up to 6 people to one board • Everyone can add, edit, decorate, and share moments together • If one board has ScrapBoard+, everyone in that board can add the widget to their Home Screen • One subscription unlocks the shared widget experience for everyone in the board BOARD STYLES • Choose from whiteboard, fridge, cork board, and color backdrops • Create a couple board, friendship board, shared memo board, birthday countdown, memory board, private photo space, or family board • Decorate your Home Screen with something personal instead of another boring widget • Make your widget feel like a scrapbook, pinboard, cork board, mood board, or cozy fridge door GREAT FOR • Couples and partners • Long distance relationships • Best friends and besties • Close friends and friend groups • Families and roommates • Birthday countdowns • Anniversary count ups • Trip planning • Concert countdowns • Daily reminders • Photo memories • Love notes • Shared mood boards • Private scrapbook boards • Cute Home Screen widgets SCRAPBOARD+ ScrapBoard+ unlocks Home Screen widgets. Adding a board to your Home Screen requires an active ScrapBoard+ subscription. Free users can create and edit boards in the app. With ScrapBoard+, a board can be added as a widget, and everyone invited to that board can use the widget too. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID settings. Download ScrapBoard and make a shared widget for the people you love — notes, photos, countdowns, count ups, memories, stickers, doodles, love notes, reminders, and little moments together on your Home Screen. Website: https://scrapboard.app Contact: support@scrapboard.app Terms of Use: https://scrapboard.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://scrapboard.app/privacy
Thanks, Brain
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Your brain means well. It just keeps handing you the same thought at the worst possible times. Thanks, Brain is the polite way to take that thought off its hands. Write it down — get it out of your head and onto paper. Then destroy the paper. Really destroy it: with your hands, with physics, with sound and feel. SIX WAYS FOR A THOUGHT TO GO • Shred it — pull it through the shredder, strip by strip • Slice it — swipe clean through it, then slice the pieces again • Burn it — hold a finger to it and fire catches right there • Crumple it — scrunch it into a ball and flick it away • Dissolve it — brush it into dust • Release it — flick it into the night sky and watch it become a star, exactly where you sent it Or tap “Surprise me” and let the app choose. THE REGULARS Some thoughts come back. When one does, give the worry itself a nickname — “The Replayer,” “The 3am Accountant” — and greet it like the old acquaintance it is. The app keeps gentle count of every send-off. Only the nickname is kept, never a word of what you wrote. NOTHING IS SAVED No account. No sync. No server. Nothing you write is stored, sent, or even remembered by the keyboard — the app blocks keyboard learning by default, keeps third-party keyboards out, and hides your words from the app switcher. The thought exists on your screen, and then it doesn’t. That’s the whole point. Everything in the app is free. There’s a tip jar, escalating from a gumball to a weekend at the beach, if you’d like to keep one very grateful developer going. Write it down. Let it go. Thanks, brain — anyway.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thanks, Brain at daily against Shared Love Widget's fortnightly. 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
Both are free to download. Shared Love Widget sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Thanks, Brain sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shared Love Widget ships an update fortnightly, Thanks, Brain daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Love Widget | Thanks, Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi Hin Ngan | Schooner & The Bear |
In-app purchases
Shared Love Widget
- ScrapBoard+ Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
- ScrapBoard+ Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
- ScrapBoard+ 3 Months Subscription7 Days trial$29.993 Months
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- ScrapBoard+ Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
Thanks, Brain
- Buy me a gumball$0.99
- Buy me a gas station snack$1.99
- Buy me a fancy coffee$4.99
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- Buy me a sandwich$9.99
- Buy me dinner$19.99
- Buy me dinner + an appetizer$49.99
- Buy me a therapy session$99.99
- Buy me an unplugged weekend$249.99
Questions
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