Comparison

Therapy Notebook TD vs visualOS

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

Head to head
About

Therapy Notebook TD

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Therapy Notebook is a professional note-taking and session organization app designed for counselors and psychotherapists on iPhone and iPad. Keep client records, session notes, history, and your calendar together in one organized workspace. On iPhone, access your clients wherever your work takes you and edit notes quickly with the keyboard. On iPad, write naturally with Apple Pencil or use the keyboard. With iCloud, your data is stored in your own account and kept up to date across your devices. Key features: • Support for iPhone and iPad • Client-based session notes and history • Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil on iPad • Keyboard note-taking • Client folders and session planning • Calendar view and Apple Calendar synchronization • Ready-to-use templates for therapy work • 18 specialized template packs with 470+ clinical templates in total • Edit existing templates and create your own collections, groups, and templates • Move templates between collections and groups • PDF export • Face ID, Touch ID, or app passcode access • Automatic locking when the app moves to the background • Option to use client code names instead of real names • Add multiple photos at once and manage photo attachments • iCloud backup and synchronization Therapy Notebook is not a billing system, online therapy platform, or comprehensive clinic management system. Its purpose is to support mental health professionals with organized note-taking and session tracking. It does not diagnose, recommend treatment, or perform client assessments. A separate auto-renewable Premium subscription purchase is required to use Therapy Notebook and access all features. Monthly and yearly plans are available. Eligible new subscribers may receive a 7-day free trial. Unless canceled during the trial, the selected subscription continues as a paid, auto-renewable plan. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

visualOS

This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers, organizing notes, folders, images, and to-do lists. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, which can then sync via your cloud service.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for visual thinking
  • Offline access and real file saving
  • Syncs with your own cloud storage
  • Organize notes, images, and to-dos
  • Hierarchical boards within boards
  • Markdown file support
  • Freehand drawing and magnetic arrows
Features
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.

Screenshots

Therapy Notebook TD4 screens
visualOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Therapy Notebook TD at Free against visualOS's $12.99. visualOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On ads and device support 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

Therapy Notebook TD is free to download; visualOS costs $12.99 up front. Therapy Notebook TD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. visualOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Therapy Notebook TD ships an update fortnightly, visualOS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Therapy Notebook TD versus visualOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTherapy Notebook TDvisualOS
PriceFree — better$12.99
Rating—4.4 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#189 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlper CUHADAROGLUDorweiler & Reimertz GbR

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Therapy Notebook TD

Subscriptions2
  • Therapy Notebook Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Therapy Notebook Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

visualOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Therapy Notebook TD free?
Therapy Notebook TD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is visualOS free?
visualOS costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Therapy Notebook TD or visualOS have ads?
Neither Therapy Notebook TD nor visualOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Therapy Notebook TD or visualOS?
Therapy Notebook TD ships an update fortnightly, and visualOS every 6 days. Most recently, Therapy Notebook TD was updated on October 24, 2026 and visualOS on October 29, 2026.

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