Comparison

AnyTally vs Mena

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

Head to head
About

AnyTally

This app helps you track anything by creating custom tallies. Set goals, visualize progress with charts and streaks, and organize your data. It offers a private, native experience across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable tallies for any item
  • Goal setting with progress visualization
  • Detailed trends, streaks, and stats
  • Flexible tally types (currency, time, etc.)
  • Private, device-based data storage
  • Native experience on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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Count anything. Reach any goal. AnyTally turns the simple act of counting into something you can actually stick with. Make a tally for anything you want to track — calories, expenses, water, workouts, pages read, savings, screen time — and build it up row by row. Every tally is made of rows. Each row adds to or subtracts from the total, with an optional label and amount, and the total updates live as you type. Logging a coffee, a 5-mile run, a $40 grocery trip, or a deposit toward savings takes a couple of taps. SET A GOAL, SEE YOUR PROGRESS Define a goal — a target to reach or a limit to stay under — and a progress bar tracks how close you are to achieving it. It turns green when you hit a target and warns you clearly when you cross a limit. TRENDS, STREAKS, AND STATS Tap the total to open the Summary — bar charts of your trends over days, weeks, months, or years, your current and best streaks with a success rate, and stats like averages, best periods, and all-time totals. MAKE IT YOURS • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or one-off tallies • Track currency, calories, steps, distance, weight, volume, time, percentages, and more • Skip rows to exclude them from the total • Stash rows to re-use them later on • Group rows under headers • Reorder and pin tallies in the sidebar PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tallies live on your device and sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. No account to create, and no tracking inside the app. NATIVE ON EVERY DEVICE AnyTally is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and feels at home on each. ANYTALLY PRO AnyTally is free to use with up to 3 tallies. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited tallies and unlimited rows. Pro is $9.99/year, includes Family Sharing, and helps support ongoing development. Count anything. Reach any goal. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anytally.com/privacy

About

Mena

Features
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Private visual notes for iPad. Build mind maps on an infinite canvas, study with FSRS flashcards, and sync through your private iCloud storage — no account required. Mena is an infinite canvas and visual second brain for iPad. Sketch ideas, build mind maps, embed media, and turn any board into spaced-repetition flashcards you actually review — no account required. INFINITE CANVAS Pan, zoom, and draw with no page limits. Pastel sticky notes, shapes and connectors for mind maps and flowcharts, frames, tables, and 19 polygon shapes. Apple Pencil support with Draw to Shape — sketch a rough shape and Mena snaps it perfect. EVERY KIND OF CONTENT Drop anything onto your board: sticky notes, rich text and Markdown, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, PDFs with full page navigation, video, audio files, and live maps. Record voice memos directly on the canvas — ink drawn during recording is seekable by playback time. Web embeds and URL preview cards keep sources right where you need them. PAPER TEMPLATES Note pages come in blank, lined, dotted, and grid. Change one page or every blank page at once, and choose auto, light, or dark paper independently of your system theme. The same page renders identically in the reader, sidebar, overview grid, library thumbnail, and exported PDF. STUDY WITH FSRS Turn any deck board into spaced-repetition flashcards. Mena uses FSRS — the most accurate scheduling algorithm available — to surface cards exactly when you need them. Again / Hard / Good / Easy grading with interval preview. Cloze deletion with one tap. Auto-generate flashcards from your notes on-device, no network needed. STUDY DASHBOARD Track your streak, retention rate, and 14-day due forecast. See today's review count at a glance. ANKI COMPATIBLE Import any .apkg file directly. Mena imports your cards, scheduling data, embedded images, and cloze deletions. Export any deck back as .apkg and study it in Anki on any device. SLIDES & PRESENTATION Draw a frame around anything and it becomes a slide. Open the filmstrip panel, jump to any slide, present full-screen, or export the whole deck as a crisp PDF. 6 BOARD TYPES Board — infinite whiteboard. Note — vertical scroll page. Journal — one auto-created page per day. Atlas — a spatial map of all your boards. Collection — a live saved query across all boards. Deck — FSRS study deck with review session. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS 4 widget types for home screen and lock screen: New Board (one-tap creation), Board Preview (live thumbnail of any board), Today's Study (due count, streak, retention), and Deck (per-deck stats). All fully configurable. SHARE FROM ANYWHERE A share extension catches text, links, images, PDFs, and videos from any other app — tap Share → Mena, pick a board, done. PRIVATE iCLOUD SYNC Every board, element, and attachment syncs across your Apple devices through your private iCloud CloudKit database. No Mena account. No third-party cloud server stores your Mena content. Flashcard generation runs on-device. Optional web embeds and Unsplash search connect only when you choose to use them. Mena fits how your brain actually works — capture, connect, and remember. FREE & PRO Free covers 3 boards, 3 notes, 3 documents and 5 decks; journals and system boards are never limited. Mena Pro lifts every limit — Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly renew automatically, Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Prices appear in the app before you buy, and you can restore purchases at any time. Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mena/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AnyTally4 screens
Mena4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mena at every 3 days against AnyTally's weekly. Mena also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. AnyTally sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year and Mena sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AnyTally ships an update weekly, Mena every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AnyTally versus Mena: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnyTallyMena
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.518.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeb FontanCihat Salik

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AnyTally

Subscriptions1
  • AnyTally Pro$9.991 Year
3 purchases

Mena

Subscriptions2
  • Mena Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Mena Pro - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mena Pro - Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is AnyTally free?
AnyTally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mena free?
Mena is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AnyTally or Mena have ads?
Neither AnyTally nor Mena shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AnyTally or Mena?
AnyTally ships an update weekly, and Mena every 3 days. Most recently, AnyTally was updated on October 16, 2026 and Mena on October 14, 2026.

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