Mintofu vs BLISS Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Mintofu
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One app for every idea ā from a quick note to a marked-up PDF to a sprawling mind map. Mintofu brings your notes, tasks, PDFs, mind maps, and calendar together in one beautifully designed app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Capture a thought, mark up a PDF, manage your to-dos, plan your day, map out a project, and stay focused with a built-in timer ā all in one calm, private place, with no clutter and no account required. Start free today and bring your whole world into one app. WHY MINTOFU Your thinking doesn't stay in neat boxes ā but most apps do. You end up juggling a notes app, a to-do app, a PDF reader, a mind-mapping tool, and a calendar, copying between them and losing context at every hop. Mintofu was built the other way around. Everything lives in one place, and every piece of content can become any other. Your tools finally move at the speed of your thinking. PRIVATE AI, BUILT IN Apple Intelligence works right inside your notes, tasks, mind maps, and calendar ā draft and brainstorm, proofread, rewrite, and summarize, or translate in a tap ā and it powers the conversions between them. Everything runs on your device, so your ideas never leave your hardware. FREE FEATURES - Notebooks to organize your notes, ideas and plans by project or topic - Rich-text notes with live Markdown, custom fonts, highlights, drawing, and attachments - One-tap translation for any note or selection - Audio Notes ā record voice memos, keep typing while you record, and transcribe them to text - PDF Documents ā read and mark up PDFs in any notebook: highlight, write with Apple Pencil, or fill in forms; scans become searchable - Full calendar ā month, week, day, and timeline views, plus a productivity heatmap - Public holidays for your region, shown across every calendar view - Live sync with your device calendars; export events as .ics - Tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks, tags, time tracking, and reminders - Natural-language dates like "next Friday at 3pm" - Smart Lists, Eisenhower Matrix, Focus Queue, and burndown charts to stay on track - Built-in Focus timer and achievement badges - Mind maps on an infinite canvas ā import Markdown, convert to notes or tasks in a tap - Kanban boards and dashboards (Overview, Kanban, and Post Board) - Widgets for Quick Capture, Notes, Mind Maps, Calendar, Tasks, and Dashboards - Version History ā Mintofu keeps earlier versions of your notes, mind maps, tasks, and events, private on your device - Private, on-device AI throughout, via Apple Intelligence - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac ā fully offline-first - Export to PDF, Markdown, and PNG, or share anywhere - Available in 40 languages, with right-to-left support, VoiceOver, and keyboard shortcuts MINTOFU+ Everything above is free. Upgrade only if you want more: - Unlimited notebooks, mind maps, and audio notes - Unlimited AI generations and translations - Public holidays for multiple regions - Compare and restore any earlier version - Unlimited PDF documents - Monthly, annual, or one-time lifetime PERFECT FOR - Students capturing lectures and planning study sessions - Professionals juggling projects, meetings, and deadlines - Writers and researchers organizing notes, ideas, and drafts - Visual thinkers who brainstorm and plan with mind maps - Anyone building a daily-planning and focus routine that sticks - Privacy-conscious people who want no account and no tracking - Apple users who want one beautiful app across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Bring every idea, task, and plan into one place. Privacy Policy: https://www.mintofu.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mintofu.ai/terms
BLISS Note
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One pencil across every note ā ink on text notes, PDFs, slides and sheets, open Word, PowerPoint and Google files as notes, and keep notes inside notes. An all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ā One pencil, every note ⢠The same pens, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs, drawings and sheets ā ballpoint, fountain pen and more ⢠Write over your typed notes ā ink stays on its page as you edit ⢠Free canvas, or A4, Letter, B5, square and slide paper, with lasso select & move ⢠Vector shapes and flowcharts with connectors, lock and group ⢠Handwriting to text, handwritten titles, and a zoom-write strip for small text ā Bring in what you already have ⢠Word as a page note that keeps its layout, Excel and CSV as a sheet note, PowerPoint as editable slides to write on ⢠Google Docs, Sheets and Slides ā from a link or your own Google Drive ⢠Notion pages and exports, and Markdown files ā with sub-pages, databases and media ⢠Export to PDF, PPTX and Excel, or AirDrop a note as a .blissnote file ā Slides & spreadsheets ⢠Slide paper with title and body layouts; present with pen and laser pointer ⢠Sheet notes ā formulas that recalculate, sort & filter, find & replace, a fill handle, and ink on top ā Write together, nearby ⢠Share a note live with devices on the same Wi-Fi. Guests can view, write on their own layer, or edit together ā Planner, timetable & tasks ⢠Tasks, planner notes synced with your iCloud calendar, and a note for every event ⢠Project dashboard ā progress, overdue tasks and next deadlines at a glance, with a period and status for each project ⢠Class timetable ā tap a period to open its notes ⢠Recurring events, lunar anniversaries and D-day countdowns ā Exam prep & memorization ⢠Question bank & wrong-answer notes ā split an exam PDF into questions; missed ones return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day schedule ⢠Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) ā Counseling notes ⢠For school counseling and HR one-on-ones ā records, statistics, group sessions, reminders, PDF reports and a Face ID lock, kept only on your devices and your own cloud ā Record, transcribe & translate ⢠Turn meetings and lectures into text, and translate on-device, even offline (59 languages) ⢠Tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment ā Find & connect ⢠Search text and PDFs, plus your handwriting, recording transcripts and #tags ⢠Embed PDFs, drawings, videos and other notes inside a note; link notes and see what links back ⢠Shelves, six view modes, a page grid, split view and YouTube playlists ⢠Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks ā and clean paste from AI answers ā PDFs & the web ⢠Pen, highlighter and underline; note pages between PDF pages; Sepia, Dim and Night reading modes ⢠Automatic paper citations in APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX ⢠Annotate web pages with highlights, notes and pen ā only your annotations are stored ā Make it your own ⢠Covers and paper from your own images or Unsplash, stickers, washi tape you draw like a pen, and your drawing behind the Home screen ā Free & Pro ⢠Free: every tool, for up to 10 notes and 5 PDFs ⢠Bliss Note Pro (monthly or yearly subscription): unlimited notes and PDFs, plus cloud and calendar sync ā Privacy first ⢠No sign-up to start ā your notes live on your device ⢠Pro sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive ⢠Available in 24 languages Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BLISS Note at 15.5 against Mintofu's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mintofu sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and BLISS Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mintofu ships an update weekly, BLISS Note every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mintofu | BLISS Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mintofu AI Inc. | BLISS AI Inc. |
In-app purchases
Mintofu
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99
BLISS Note
- Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$5.991 Year









