Mhisper vs ObsiKO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mhisper
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Mhisper is a quieter place to think. Your thoughts become bubbles — softly lit, gently drifting on a starfield — alive until you're ready for them. No streaks. No guilt. No inbox pretending to be a mind. Just a calm sky where what you're thinking becomes something you can see. CATCH IT • Type a thought, or speak it — on-device dictation turns your voice into a bubble before the idea fades • Every thought wears a colour. Choose yours, or pick Rainbow and let each new thought arrive in its own • Made for the shower sentence, the walk-home idea, the 2am worry that just needs somewhere to land BUILD IT • Step inside any thought — it opens into a full note built from blocks: clean Markdown or richly styled Fine Text • Add tasks with deadlines and gentle reminders, so remembering isn't your job anymore • Add tasks and check them out from in the note body itself. • Attach images and files where they belong • Connect your notes with one another using threads , and mention other notes in the note body to easily click to navigate between connected notes. SEE IT • Zones gather related thoughts into glowing regions of the sky • Threads draw quiet lines between ideas that belong together • Clusters fold a whole project into a single constellation — step in, step out • Search by word or colour when you need one thought fast SHARE IT • Presenter mode turns a note into a slow, beautiful reading — like you're speaking to the reader, one passage at a time • Share a note with a link, or open a Shared Space where a family, a book club, or a team keeps one sky together KEEP IT • Your notes are your intellectual property. Mhisper never reads, sells, or trains anything on them — they exist for you and no one else • Save your whole canvas as an encrypted memory file only you can open • Your sky follows you between iPhone and the web at mhisper.app For the racing mind that thinks in every direction. For writers watching scenes find their shape. For students turning reading into understanding. For families keeping memories where the grandkids can wander through them. Mhisper is free. Open it, Mhisper a thought, and watch it land.
ObsiKO
This app combines note-taking, mind mapping, and file management with AI assistance. It supports handwritten notes, custom planners, and integrates with Obsidian vaults. Features include a focus timer, web sharing via GitHub, and a unique graph visualization.
- AI-assisted note-taking and mind mapping
- Handwritten notes with real paper textures
- Focus timer with Lock Screen integration
- GitHub integration for sharing and syncing
- Interactive graph visualization of knowledge
- Support for Obsidian vaults (.md, .canvas)
- Korean language dictionary and spell checker
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Tired of converting files or picking plugins? Spent the day on settings and never wrote a line? Plenty of features, none of them talking to each other? Writing, knowledge management, mind maps, reading logs, codices, schedules, file conversion — all in ObsiKO, with no login, payment, subscription or ads. Obsidian vaults (.md·.canvas·.base) open as-is. (AI uses your own API key. With Apple Intelligence on, no key needed.) ■ Notebooks and planners you write by hand · Notebook cards on your mind map, 23 papers — lined, Cornell, manuscript grid. Export as one PDF · Pens, brushes, pencils, crayon and chalk, with sounds recorded on real paper · A dated year planner as one PDF for your note-taking app or printer · Stickers and washi tape on the page of your note. Handwriting turns into text on the device ■ Made for iPhone Duo · Folded: floating glass buttons on the right strip. Unfolded: an iPad-style layout, books in two pages · Half-folded: the app on top, the keyboard below — like a small laptop ■ Built for Korean · The ObsiKO Korean Dictionary and spell checker, from the National Institute of Korean Language's data — no key · 860+ newer words not yet in the official dictionaries, and hanja input · A "Korean word of the day" widget ■ A focus timer on your Lock Screen · A dial like a real pomodoro clock — tap or drag the ticks in 1-minute steps · Start from the widget without opening the app; time left on the Lock Screen, in StandBy and the Dynamic Island ■ Share and sync (GitHub) · "Share to the web" turns a note into one link, stored in your GitHub, not on our servers · Sync devices through your own repository, and share your LLM wiki by subscription link ■ Write once, it connects itself · One "color" property tints tabs, headers, tree icons, .base and codex cards · Type "book" and a search fills in the rest; "project" adds dates to the calendar · Highlight a PDF and quotes collect in a matching note. ■ A graph like the night sky · Links, types, relations and PARA form one constellation — more links, brighter stars ■ Infinite mind-map canvas (.canvas) · Apple Pencil drawing — sketches into mind maps (iOS 27) or AI images. Ask the AI and it builds, sizes and colors the map · Enter and Tab grow cards. 5 styles, 10+ presets, auto-built maps & dungeons ■ .base files and search · Projects, kanban, cards, charts, a library, PARA and a budget. Dataview queries become tables · Search filenames, full text, Korean jamo, meaning and word forms. Find books and papers, or just ask Siri ■ Dashboard, themes and Markdown · 50+ widgets — calendar, habits, stats, D-day, mini games, AI briefing, tarot. 20+ themes, your own fonts · Editing tuned for Korean, a format bar, Mermaid, 20+ charts, inline drawing, embeds ■ Writing helper · 70+ structures across 13 genres (Hero's Journey, Save the Cat and more) · Socratic questions, genre feedback, style polish, your own assistants, on-device translation, read-aloud ■ Schedules · A date in any file lands on the calendar (Obsidian Tasks compatible) — calendar views, widgets, writing reminders ■ Viewers from one line of front matter · Book view (two pages, real page turns), web-novel view (platform presets) · Messenger and visual-novel views — record the screen and it's a short. ■ Clip, convert, export · Web clipper, RSS and a Memo Box for loose thoughts. Import from Apple Notes, Notion, Evernote, Bear, Logseq and Roam · doc, docx, PDF, hwp and hwpx to Markdown, AI OCR and transcription · Slides with Marp. Export to PDF, HWPX, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, ZIP and wikis ■ AI agent · Just add an API key (Claude, Gemini, GPT) — the app works fully without one · Mind maps and tables on your phone, voice input, and a plan card before big changes · Auto memory, LLM wikis, slash commands, a prompt helper, MCP Tell us about bugs anytime. ■ Supported · iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch / Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified) · Ready for iOS 27 and iPhone Duo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ObsiKO at every 6 days against Mhisper's every 3 weeks. ObsiKO also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mhisper ships an update every 3 weeks, ObsiKO every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Mhisper | ObsiKO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LAKSHAPATHY W M DE MEL | Hyojin Kim |
In-app purchases
Mhisper
No in-app purchases
ObsiKO
No in-app purchases









