Comparison

DeMinds vs LocalQuill

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

Head to head
About

DeMinds

This app transforms scattered content into structured knowledge assets using Markdown and mind maps. It supports various file types, including mind maps, documents, and AI shares, allowing for local-first editing and portable exports.

Highlights
  • Import and preview mind maps
  • Convert Markdown to visual maps
  • Work with Markdown Packages and Obsidian Vaults
  • Use Universal Mind Map as structure layer
  • Local-first editing
  • Export to Markdown, PDF, PNG
Features
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Your content is still there. Your work should not have to start over. DeMinds is a local-first Markdown and mind map workspace. It brings files, web pages, mind maps, and shared links together as structured Markdown documents you can keep editing and reusing. Open supported MindNode, XMind, and FreeMind maps, along with Markdown, TXT, DOCX, HTML, and OPML documents. Choose content from a Markdown Package or Obsidian Vault. Hierarchy, links, and images are preserved whenever possible. With DeMinds, you can: • See the text and the whole picture On supported wide screens, read Markdown Preview or edit in Markdown or Rich beside the Universal Mind Map, even in Focus Mode. Jump from a node to its text while keeping your draft and Undo history. Saving refreshes the map and, where possible, keeps branches and Notes expanded or collapsed as you left them. • Adjust the structure directly In the Universal Mind Map, rename supported nodes, add siblings or children, and delete branches. Changes are saved in the same Markdown document. • Edit content and Notes Use Rich to edit supported text, images, code, tables and formulas visually, or Markdown for precise edits and unsupported content. Create, preview and edit node Notes in the same card. Complex tables from DOCX or HTML are read-only in Rich; edit their source in Markdown. In the document editor, add and reuse project images or delete saved images confirmed to be unused. • Bring in online content Open supported public documents, web and research articles, public ChatGPT share links, and X articles readable without signing in. Follow links from a public GitHub README to related Markdown documents. • Pick up where you left off Find projects by stage, time or Category in Continue Working. Compare or restore saved versions in Version History. Manually check public Feed or GitHub README Content Sources for updates. “Continue with AI…” prepares a file for an external AI tool, with an optional request for an AI Editorial Note. You share it yourself and compare returned edits before applying them. • Choose your Workspace Switch between Local Workspace and iCloud Workspace. Add selected missing projects without replacing existing ones; a full replacement needs separate confirmation. iCloud availability depends on your device and account. • Take your work with you Export a Markdown File, a Standard Markdown Bundle with assets, or a PDF. With DeMinds Plus, export a Full Mind Map as PNG, create a read-only Interactive View with text, map or both, and publish it publicly through GitHub Pages in your own account. Others can read it and download Markdown in a browser without DeMinds, or open a supported online view in the app. Disconnecting GitHub does not delete published files. On iOS 18 or later, where supported by the system, temporarily translate the preview, map titles, and Notes without changing the original. Core work in DeMinds needs no account. Documents, edits, and history are processed on your device or in your chosen Workspace, not on DeMinds servers. Web pages, remote documents, Content Sources, iCloud, translation, and publishing use the relevant network or system services when you enable those features. DeMinds Plus also adds the Original Mind Map, Presentation Playback, Workspace Backup import, and a higher project limit in Continue Working. Privacy Policy: https://deminds.xyz/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

LocalQuill

Features
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LocalQuill is a private AI that lives on your phone. Chat with it, ask it anything, and let it fix your writing, without sending a single character to a server. Add the LocalQuill keyboard and get one-tap Fix, Rewrite and Translate in any app, in your own voice, powered by the on-device model in your phone. LocalQuill learns how you write, the words you actually use, and keeps that profile inside the keyboard where nothing can read it. The chat is a real assistant: explain, summarize, draft emails, plan, brainstorm, translate, read text out of photos, dictate by voice, and keep a memory of what matters to you. The model runs on the device: no account, no cloud, no tracking, and it works in airplane mode. - One-tap Fix that keeps your voice - Rewrite with a tone dial: casual, formal, shorter - Translate to 27 languages from the keyboard - Click-to-correct spelling chips, never silent autocorrect - No Full Access needed. The keyboard never touches the internet. - Chat with memory, photo text reading, dictation and read-aloud - Everything stored on your phone. Delete it any time. AI features use Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, iOS 26 or later). Spelling correction works on every supported iPhone.

Screenshots

DeMinds4 screens
LocalQuill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LocalQuill at none against DeMinds's 2. DeMinds's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. DeMinds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LocalQuill asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DeMinds versus LocalQuill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeMindsLocalQuill
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYongguo Fanilmalabs, LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DeMinds

Subscriptions2
  • DeMinds Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • DeMinds Plus Yearly$19.991 Year
None

LocalQuill

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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