Comparison

Jot vs BrainArchive

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

Head to head
About

Jot

This app offers a unique approach to task management and note-taking, focusing on daily clarity and task resolution. It uses a physics-based simulation for unfinished tasks and a markdown editor for notes, with a history feature to review past work.

Highlights
  • Swipe to complete or shelve tasks
  • Physics simulation for daily task pile
  • Full-screen markdown note editor
  • Task history and filtering
  • Daily task expiration philosophy
  • Export tasks as markdown
Features
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Jot. Swipe down to add tasks or notes. No menus, no nested folders, no project-management overhead. Just today's plan, focused and clear. — EVERY TASK HAS A FATE — Jot. doesn't believe in infinite backlogs. Swipe to complete a task. Hold to shelve it for another day. Rescue it from yesterday's pile if it still matters. Active, completed, shelved, rescued. Every task finds its resolution. — A PHYSICS PILE, EVERY MORNING — Unfinished tasks don't vanish quietly at midnight. They tumble into a letter-pile physics simulation overnight. Drag the pile to send letters flying. Pick up what still matters. Let the rest go. — DAILY NOTES — Pull down on the note page to open a full-screen markdown editor with a floating toolbar. Bold headers, bullet lists, numbered lists, code blocks — your thoughts, formatted the way you mean them. — HISTORY — Every resolved task is saved by date. Browse by week, month, year, or all time. Filter by completed, shelved, or uncompleted. Search by task name. Export any day's work as a clean markdown file. — THE PHILOSOPHY — Jot. is built on one idea: your to-do list should expire every morning. Yesterday's priorities are not today's. A fresh start, every day. Do more. Think less. Just Jot.

About

BrainArchive

Features
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Ideas come and go quickly. Brain Archive is a simple, lightweight place to capture the thoughts you don't want to lose. Save creative sparks, plans, random ideas, and unfinished thoughts, then organize them into your own idea folders. Give each folder an Emoji, add ideas whenever inspiration strikes, and slowly build your own personal archive. Whether it's an app idea, a content concept, a travel plan, a design reference, a book you want to read, or something you might make someday — save it first. With Brain Archive, you can: · Create folders for different ideas and topics · Personalize folders with Emojis · Quickly capture ideas and inspiration · Search through everything you've saved · Sync your records after signing in · Continue organizing your ideas across devices Free to use The free version lets you create up to 3 folders and save up to 5 ideas in each folder. Need more space? A one-time lifetime purchase unlocks: · Unlimited folders · Unlimited ideas in every folder · One purchase, lifetime access You don't have to turn every idea into a plan right away. Just save it first. One day, it might become something real.

Screenshots

Jot4 screens
BrainArchive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jot at none against BrainArchive's 1. BrainArchive's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads 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. BrainArchive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jot asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Jot versus BrainArchive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJotBrainArchive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS27.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin Cabral卓凡 张

In-app purchases

None

Jot

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BrainArchive

One-time1
  • Brain Archive Lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Jot free?
Jot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BrainArchive free?
BrainArchive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jot or BrainArchive have ads?
Neither Jot nor BrainArchive shows ads.

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