Mente vs Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mente
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Mente is made for psychologists and psychotherapists in private practice, with individual clients, couples and families. Your schedule, session notes, treatment plans, client documents and payments stay on your iPhone or iPad. There's no account to create, and client records never pass through our servers. Your day Today's sessions appear on a timeline, with the breaks between them and the time you still have free. Today's priorities lists what's waiting: tasks due, unpaid sessions and notes you've started. Book one-off or recurring sessions, and Mente suggests times within your working hours. Couples and families A client can be one person, a couple or a family, with one shared record. Each person has their own role and contact details, and every minor has an adult guardian. You choose who took part in each session, and a note can be about everyone or about one person. The record holds sessions, notes with their earlier versions, plans and objectives, tasks and life events. Search covers every client. Documents for the first session Mente includes a privacy notice, a professional services agreement and an intake and history form, plus an agreement for couples and families and a consent form for each minor. It fills them in on your device from the details you've saved and puts them into one PDF, which you read before sharing. Mente records when a document was shared, but keeps no completed PDFs, answers or signatures. Messages and payments Write an appointment message, check it and send it from your own email or messaging app. Mente never sends anything by itself. Set prices for evaluation, consultation and emergency sessions. A paid session keeps the price it was paid at, so new rates don't change past months. Your data Sensitive data is encrypted on the device. Mente opens only with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and locks again 30 seconds after you leave it. You can export a password-protected .mente backup, CSV tables or a PDF report for one client at any time. Free and Pro Everything above is free, but your records stay only on your phone until you back them up yourself. With Pro, backup runs on its own and there is less admin to do. On the monthly plan, you can try Mente Pro free for 30 days. Mente Pro adds: • Encrypted iCloud backup with a Recovery Key, which also keeps your iPhone and iPad in sync • A PDF payment statement with a client's unpaid sessions and your bank account • A preparation card before each session and a list of sessions still missing a note • SOAP, DAP, BIRP, CBT, ACT, DBT, EMDR and other note formats, and your own templates • Your own message templates, send reminders and a log of prepared messages • Editable documents with your logo and services, and earlier versions to go back to • Two-way sync with a calendar on your device, such as iCloud, Google or Exchange • The complete timeline of each client If Pro ends, your records stay on the device and the free features keep working. iCloud backup and calendar sync pause until you renew. Mente is a tool for administration and documentation. It doesn't diagnose, recommend treatment or provide emergency services. Mente uses Contacts only when you import a client, Calendar only for calendar sync and iCloud only for iCloud backup. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://heuristicapps.io/apps/mente/privacy-policy.html
Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey
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Your notes, your words, your phone. No recording, no cloud, no AI scribe listening to your sessions. NoteKey is the iOS keyboard for therapists, psychologists, LCSWs, LPCs and LMFTs: note skeletons that expand with tap-through fill-in fields, an intervention phrase library organized by modality, and autocorrect that finally knows CBT from DBT and clomipramine from chlorpromazine. It works in every app you already write in: your EHR, Notes, email, telehealth platforms. NOTE SKELETONS THAT FILL THEMSELVES Type .dap and the whole progress note scaffolds itself. Tap through the fill-in fields instead of hunting with the caret, and a progress chip tracks where you are in the note. 15 templates at launch, including SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, intake summary, mental status exam, risk assessment, safety plan review, telehealth, group, couples and family, treatment plan review and discharge. AN INTERVENTION PHRASE LIBRARY 69 original clinical sentence stems tagged by modality: CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, EMDR, person-centered, psychodynamic, family and substance use. Filter by modality, search, tap to insert. When your caret is standing in a skeleton field, the Phrases tab opens already filtered to that section, so the interventions you need are the ones you see. AUTOCORRECT THAT KNOWS CLINICAL WORDS A psychiatric lexicon compiled from open National Library of Medicine data. Medication names, clinical vocabulary and instrument names like PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are protected, so autocorrect stops rewriting them into something else. Look-alike medication names never cross-correct into each other. DICTATION THAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Talk your note and Apple's on-device speech recognition transcribes it. Audio is never stored and never transmitted. NoteKey formats what you said into note shape, then returns you to exactly where you were typing. SESSION TOOLS A session timer and a words-typed count live in the keyboard's own header, so the note stays on pace without leaving the field. SPECIALTY PACKS Four packs at launch: CBT, EMDR, family and substance use. Each adds terms, templates and phrases tuned to how you actually work. WHAT IS FREE Full typing, autocorrect and the clinical lexicon never expire and never nag. The free tier includes 3 note skeletons with fill-in fields, 5 custom snippets, 20 expansions a day, 1 specialty pack, and browsing the whole phrase library. WHAT PRO ADDS All 15 skeletons, unlimited snippets and expansions, phrase insert, dictation, session tools and all 4 specialty packs. Monthly, yearly with a 14-day free trial, or a one-time founding lifetime purchase. PRIVACY, BY ARCHITECTURE The keyboard contains no networking code at all. Turn on Airplane Mode and it behaves identically, because it never had anything to send. There are no accounts, no analytics and no advertising, and we run no servers holding your content. Nothing you type leaves your phone. NoteKey is a documentation tool. It does not diagnose, does not recommend treatment and does not provide dosing. Its templates are documentation scaffolds and contain no clinical advice. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kamal-no-bot.github.io/notekey-legal/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey at 18.0 against Mente's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mente sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mente ships an update every 2 days, Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mente | Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Heuristic Apps | Kamal Nasir |
In-app purchases
Mente
- Mente Pro Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
- Mente Pro Annually$99.991 Year
- Mente Pro Lifetime$249.99
Therapy Notes Keyboard NoteKey
- Pro Monthly: Documentation$6.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Case Notes14 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime: Private Practice$79.99






