LifeHUD vs Mena
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
LifeHUD
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I created LifeHUD because I wanted a daily planning tool that felt lightweight, visual, and easy to use. Many planning apps felt too complex for everyday life, so LifeHUD focuses on the essentials: what you need to do, what you have completed, and what helps you feel steady throughout the day. LifeHUD is designed to be a dashboard for daily life: Simple enough to open quickly, useful enough to check often, and personal enough to make your routine feel your own. Plan Your Day Create simple to-do lists and keep track of what needs to be done next. To manage a task, press and hold on a list item, then release to open the options menu. From there, you can edit the item, set it to repeat, or adjust its schedule. Tasks can be repeated daily or scheduled for specific days of the week by holding down on the repeat icon. Move Between Days Swipe left or right on your to-do list to move between days. Use this to plan ahead for tomorrow, check what you completed yesterday, or review unfinished items from a previous day. Each morning, LifeHUD can also prompt you to add unfinished tasks from the previous day so they do not get lost. Stay Fueled LifeHUD includes friendly reminders to help you remember meals during busy days. The hunger tracker gives you a simple, game-inspired visual reminder to pause and eat before you run out of energy. It is designed for everyday routine support, not medical or dietary advice. Track Your Progress Use the progress calendar to see what you have completed over time. Your completed days appear in a visual heat map, making it easy to see your consistency build. Tap any date on the calendar to review what you completed that day. Use the Home Screen Widget: Add the LifeHUD widget to your Home Screen to see your tasks at a glance. The widget helps you quickly check what is next without opening the full app. Customize Your Dashboard Choose from built-in themes to adjust the look and feel of LifeHUD. LifeHUD Pro unlocks additional customization options so you can personalize the app more fully. LifeHUD Pro: LifeHUD Pro is available as a one-time upgrade. Pro includes: A distraction-free experience Water tracking Full color customization LifeHUD is built for people who want a simple way to plan their day, remember what matters, and see their progress over time.
Mena
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Private visual notes for iPad. Build mind maps on an infinite canvas, study with FSRS flashcards, and sync through your private iCloud storage β no account required. Mena is an infinite canvas and visual second brain for iPad. Sketch ideas, build mind maps, embed media, and turn any board into spaced-repetition flashcards you actually review β no account required. Infinite canvas Pan, zoom, and draw with no page limits. Pastel sticky notes, shapes and connectors for mind maps and flowcharts, frames, tables, and 19 polygon shapes. Apple Pencil support with Draw to Shape β sketch a rough shape and Mena snaps it perfect. Every kind of content Drop anything onto your board: sticky notes, rich text and Markdown, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, PDFs with full page navigation, video, audio files, and live maps. Record voice memos directly on the canvas β ink drawn during recording is seekable by playback time. Web embeds and URL preview cards keep sources right where you need them. Paper templates Note pages come in blank, lined, dotted, and grid. Change one page or every blank page at once, and choose auto, light, or dark paper independently of your system theme. The same page renders identically in the reader, sidebar, overview grid, library thumbnail, and exported PDF. Study with FSRS Turn any deck board into spaced-repetition flashcards. Mena uses FSRS β the most accurate scheduling algorithm available β to surface cards exactly when you need them. Again / Hard / Good / Easy grading with interval preview. Cloze deletion with one tap. Auto-generate flashcards from your notes on-device, no network needed. Study dashboard Track your streak, retention rate, and 14-day due forecast. See today's review count at a glance. Import and export decks Import any .apkg file directly. Mena imports your cards, scheduling data, embedded images, and cloze deletions. Export any deck back as .apkg. Slides & presentation Draw a frame around anything and it becomes a slide. Open the filmstrip panel, jump to any slide, present full-screen, or export the whole deck as a crisp PDF. 6 board types Board β infinite whiteboard. Note β vertical scroll page. Journal β one auto-created page per day. Atlas β a spatial map of all your boards. Document β PDFs, scans and images read page by page and marked up with Apple Pencil. Deck β FSRS study deck with review session. Home screen widgets 4 widget types for home screen and lock screen: Quick Capture (today's note in one tap), Board Preview (live thumbnail of any board), Today's Study (due count, streak, retention), and Deck (per-deck stats). All fully configurable. Share from anywhere A share extension catches text, links, images, PDFs, and videos from any other app β tap Share β Mena, pick a board, done. Private iCloud sync Every board, element, and attachment syncs across your Apple devices through your private iCloud CloudKit database. No Mena account. No third-party cloud server stores your Mena content. Flashcard generation runs on-device. Optional web embeds and Unsplash search connect only when you choose to use them. Mena fits how your brain actually works β capture, connect, and remember. Free & Pro Free covers 3 boards, 3 notes, 3 documents and 5 decks; journals and system boards are never limited. Mena Pro lifts every limit β Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly renew automatically, Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase. iCloud sync is free on every plan. Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly start with a 1-week free trial for eligible new subscribers; the subscription is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Prices appear in the app before you buy, and you can restore purchases at any time. Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mena/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LifeHUD at daily against Mena's every 3 days. Mena's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. LifeHUD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mena sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LifeHUD ships an update daily, Mena every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LifeHUD | Mena |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily β better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad β better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 18.6 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MICHAEL ANTHONY CAMPBELL | Cihat Salik |
In-app purchases
LifeHUD
- LifeHUD Pro$3.99
Mena
- Pro Monthly: Flowchart Notes7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Diagram & Quiz7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Pro Forever: Concept Mapping$49.99








