Comparison

Pulp vs Bulletlist

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

Head to head
About

Pulp

Features
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Voice. Photo. Text. One sticky-note board. Pulp turns the way you actually think into a board you can act on. Speak a quick thought, snap a whiteboard, paste a long email. Pulp uses AI to split it into atomic sticky notes, spot deadlines, and remind you before they slip. Every note stays on your device. No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. Just paper, ideas, and a way to keep them moving. WHAT MAKES PULP DIFFERENT โ€ข Capture by voice, photo, file, or just type. Each input goes through AI that gets meaning before structure. โ€ข Long thoughts decompose into atoms. One stream of voice becomes one sticky per idea, action, or decision. Stop scrolling through walls of text. โ€ข Smart Reminders find deadlines for you. Say "cancel Adobe before May 15" and Pulp offers a notification at the right time. No manual scheduling. โ€ข Daily Triage. An optional evening review walks you through the day's captures so the board stays sharp instead of becoming a graveyard. โ€ข Ask AI. Type a question. Pulp pulls the most relevant notes and answers using their context, not the open internet. โ€ข Sticky-note metaphor that respects how brains work. Color, position, hand-placed feel. Everything visible at a glance, not buried in folders. PRIVACY THAT IS ACTUALLY PRIVATE Pulp does not ship analytics. It does not fingerprint you. It does not have a backend that stores your content. The only network call is the one your AI capture asks for. AI providers cannot train on your content. You can revoke access any time. PRICING Free: capture without limits, plus a small daily AI allowance. Pulp Pro Annual: $29.99 / year. Unlimited AI, Smart Reminders, Daily Triage, bulk operations, full export. Pulp Pro Lifetime: $79.99 one-time. Same as Annual, plus bring-your-own AI provider key. New installs include a 14-day Pulp Pro trial automatically. No card required. GREAT FOR โ€ข Knowledge workers who think faster than they can type โ€ข Voice-first thinkers who hate transcribing meetings โ€ข Anyone with too many tabs and too many half-formed ideas โ€ข People who tried "second brain" tools and bounced because the setup was the project QUICK START 1. Tap the dot to capture any thought, by voice, photo, file, or text 2. Pulp's AI sorts it into atomic sticky notes on your board 3. Smart Reminders catches deadlines without you setting them 4. Daily Triage at night keeps the board sharp and useful The board is yours. The notes are yours. The AI just helps you see what you already meant to do. Questions, feedback, requests: https://getpulp.site Terms: getpulp.site/terms Privacy: getpulp.site/privacy

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Bulletlist

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Bulletlist is an outliner. One list, nested as deep as your thinking goes, and nothing else in the way. Every line is a bullet. Press Return for the next one, Tab to move it under the one above, and keep going. Zoom into any bullet to make it the whole screen, then walk back out through the trail at the top โ€” so a long outline is read a room at a time instead of all at once. Built for keyboards Bulletlist takes the shortcuts you already know from the outliners you have used before, without inventing new ones. Move a bullet with Shift-Command-Up. Complete it with Command-Return. Jump to any bullet by name with Command-K. Press Command-/ for the whole list, in the app, grouped by what it applies to. Built for thumbs too Swipe a row to indent it. Long-press to pick it up and drop it anywhere, at any level. The editing bar rides the top of the keyboard instead of hiding under it, and the back gesture goes back through the bullets you zoomed into. Yours, and readable without us Your outline lives in your own storage under your own account. Google Analytics measures how the app is used โ€” screens opened, and counts of bullets added, completed and moved โ€” and never receives a bullet, a note or a search. There is no advertising identifier, nothing sold, and no third party watching you type. Export the whole thing as an OPML file whenever you like, and it opens in any outliner. Works offline The app is on your device, not in a browser tab. Write on a plane and it syncs when you land. Edits made on two devices are merged rather than one overwriting the other. Nine colour schemes Light and dark are separate from which colours those two words mean. Paper is ours; the other eight are Solarized, Gruvbox, Everforest, Stone, Dracula, Catppuccin, Nord and GitHub, each with both of its halves, for people who already know which one they want. Sign in with your email address and a code. There is no password to invent and none to lose.

Screenshots

Pulp4 screens
Bulletlist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bulletlist at none against Pulp's 2. Bulletlist also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pulp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Bulletlist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pulp ships an update every 3 days, Bulletlist daily. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Pulp versus Bulletlist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPulpBulletlist
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlaa AbuzarifaNozemans Software PTE LTD

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pulp

Subscriptions1
  • Pulp Pro ยท Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pulp Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

Bulletlist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pulp free?
Pulp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bulletlist free?
Bulletlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pulp or Bulletlist have ads?
Neither Pulp nor Bulletlist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pulp or Bulletlist?
Pulp ships an update every 3 days, and Bulletlist daily. Most recently, Pulp was updated on October 10, 2026 and Bulletlist on October 7, 2026.

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