Comparison

Loanest vs Thought Meadow

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

Head to head
About

Loanest

Features
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Build a dated preparation checklist from your real lent and borrowed items, keep meeting notes together, and reopen the round when it is time to leave. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add physical-item loans under Lent or Borrowed. Open Rounds and choose New return round. 2. Name the round, choose its day and items, add an optional meeting note, and save. 3. Open the saved checklist, mark items prepared, and share the list. Confirm actual handoffs in the original loan records. Lent and borrowed records, repayment tracking, reminders and exports remain available. Find Statistics and the Payback Board under Insights. WHAT TO KNOW Preparation is a saved snapshot. Checking an item does not mark it returned, move money, send a message or create a reminder. Money loans are excluded. Up to 100 physical items per round and 30 saved rounds. Deleted or returned underlying loans remain explicitly identified. iPhone and iPad.

About

Thought Meadow

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Some ideas just need a quiet place. Thought Meadow is a simple, native notes app for iPhone, in English and Arabic. Capture a thought, plan your day, and keep what matters. Open the app and start writing, with no account or internet connection. A little room to think: • Write notes with automatic local saving. • Organize with folders, tags and pinned notes. • Search titles, content and tags. • Use Markdown preview and interactive checklists. • Archive notes or move them to Trash and restore them later. • Export a note as Markdown or back up your full notebook. • Import text, Markdown and notebook backups through Files. Your thoughts, yours alone: • No account, ads, analytics or tracking in the app. • Notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's server. • Add optional password encryption for your notebook and full backups. • Your password is not stored and cannot be recovered if lost. Thought Meadow is free and open source under the MIT license. This release has no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Multi-device sync and shared lists are not available yet. Notes are excluded from automatic iPhone backups. Export copies regularly through Files and keep them outside the device: deleting the app may delete local notes. This first release has not yet had an independent security audit.

Screenshots

Loanest3 screens
Thought Meadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Thought Meadow at Free against Loanest's $0.99. Thought Meadow also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 days). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Thought Meadow is free to download; Loanest costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loanest ships an update every 3 days, Thought Meadow every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Loanest versus Thought Meadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoanestThought Meadow
Price$0.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert CorbinAlawy Alshakhouri

In-app purchases

None

Loanest

No in-app purchases

None

Thought Meadow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loanest free?
Loanest costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thought Meadow free?
Thought Meadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loanest or Thought Meadow have ads?
Neither Loanest nor Thought Meadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loanest or Thought Meadow?
Loanest ships an update every 3 days, and Thought Meadow every 2 days. Most recently, Loanest was updated on October 31, 2026 and Thought Meadow on October 31, 2026.

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