Comparison

Idea Cards vs Been A Minute

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

Head to head
About

Idea Cards

Features
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Idea Cards is a fully local app for capturing and organizing ideas as cards — fast. Not a to-do list. A vault for your thoughts, inspirations, and future possibilities. --- Key Features --- - Instant Card Creation Type a title, pick tags, done. Save an idea in under a second. - Pinterest-Style Grid Browse your ideas in a beautiful masonry layout. Color-coded by tags — just scrolling feels inspiring. - Review Mode Swipe through your ideas like flashcards. Right for "Done", left for "Hide", down for "Keep". Rediscover ideas you forgot about. - Tag Management Create, rename, recolor, and delete tags. 16 vibrant colors to make your collection yours. - Image Attachment Attach an inspiration image to any card. - Search Search across titles, details, and tags instantly. --- Built For --- - Indie developers - Creators & writers - Video makers - Anyone with too many ideas and nowhere to put them --- Philosophy --- - 100% local. Your data stays on your device. - No login required. Open and start. - Not another productivity tool. No deadlines. No guilt. - Think fast, save fast, organize by instinct.

About

Been A Minute

This app helps you track the time elapsed since you last performed a specific action. Log an event once, and it will count the time until you reset it, providing a simple way to remember when things last happened. It offers widgets and optional gentle nudges for milestones.

Highlights
  • Track time since last event
  • One-tap reset with visual feedback
  • Detailed history and breakdown
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Optional milestone nudges
  • No account or tracking required
Features
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You know that thing you definitely did recently? It's been a minute. Been A Minute tracks the time since the last time anything happened. Watered the plant. Called your mom. Changed the air filter. Went to the gym. You log it once, and the app quietly counts up from there — no streaks to break, no daily nags, no guilt. Just an honest number and a calendar that remembers better than you do. Tap "I JUST DID IT" and the counter resets to zero with a satisfying comic BAM. The old stretch gets banked to your history, so you can finally answer the eternal question: wait… how long HAS it been? — TRACK ANYTHING — Habits you're proud of, chores you're avoiding, the oil change you keep postponing. Every entry is just "time since last reset." You decide whether that's a win or a wake-up call — pick an emoji and a color to set the mood. — I JUST DID IT — One tap resets the clock and bursts the screen. The elapsed stretch lands in your history, so the record builds itself. — SEE THE STORY — A full-bleed detail screen for every entry: the live counter, an exact breakdown ("1y · 2mo · 14d"), how many times you've reset, and a dry little voice line that has opinions about your life choices. — WIDGETS — Home screen and lock screen widgets put the count right where you'll see it. The plant doesn't water itself, but at least now you'll know. — GENTLE MILESTONE NUDGES — Optional notifications at 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year. No daily pestering — just the calendar tapping you on the shoulder when it's genuinely been a while. Off by default. — YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS — No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No ads. Everything stays on your device and syncs across your own Apple devices through your private iCloud. We don't collect your data because we never see it. Track the things. Forget less. It's been a minute — let's find out exactly how long.

Screenshots

Idea Cards4 screens
Been A Minute4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Been A Minute at every 3 weeks against Idea Cards's every 5 months. Idea Cards's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idea Cards ships an update every 5 months, Been A Minute every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Idea Cards versus Been A Minute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdea CardsBeen A Minute
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeiya.kAditya Goswami

In-app purchases

None

Idea Cards

No in-app purchases

None

Been A Minute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idea Cards free?
Idea Cards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Been A Minute free?
Been A Minute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idea Cards or Been A Minute have ads?
Neither Idea Cards nor Been A Minute shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idea Cards or Been A Minute?
Idea Cards ships an update every 5 months, and Been A Minute every 3 weeks. Most recently, Idea Cards was updated on October 8, 2026 and Been A Minute on October 23, 2026.

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