Comparison

ScrivenerBridge vs ThinqBits

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

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About

ScrivenerBridge

Features
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Bring your Scrivener projects to iPhone and iPad and continue reading, organising, and writing wherever you are. ScrivenerBridge opens .scriv projects that you manage and preserves the Binder hierarchy, text, titles, synopses, status, document notes, and project structure. Projects can stay in the Files app or iCloud Drive, and your changes are written back to the original project. AI FOR YOUR MANUSCRIPT • Use Ask This Book to explore plots, characters and relationships, get an overview, discuss the story, or ask for writing ideas. • Choose the chapters to include, with batch selection through the chapter hierarchy. • Deep Summary processes the selected, readable text in batches. Follow its progress or stop the task. • Choose a local model or configure your own external AI API. Before external requests, confirm the content and review estimated usage. • Check reference chapters and original excerpts against the answer. AI can make mistakes. • Each question is handled independently. The question page does not save its conversation and clears it when closed. Local models work offline once the model and manuscript are ready on your device. External APIs require a network connection and may incur provider charges. AI answers are for reference; check the original text. CONTINUE WRITING • Browse volumes, chapters, scenes, and documents through the Binder • Edit text, titles, synopses, document notes, and chapter status • Use rich-text formatting, punctuation, quick phrases, and a customisable keyboard bar • Set word-count targets and follow your progress READ AND ANNOTATE • Read multiple chapters continuously • Select a paragraph to add an annotation • View, edit, delete, locate, and re-anchor existing annotations • Optionally mirror annotations to Scrivener Document Notes HANDLE PROJECTS SAFELY • Create an automatic backup before writing changes • Use coordinated writes for text, project metadata, and checksums • Preserve recovery copies when an iCloud conflict occurs and let you choose the version • Load the current working set of large projects to avoid unnecessary downloads IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open a .scriv folder or .scriv.zip • Import RTF and TXT documents • Export RTF, TXT, Markdown, a complete .scriv project, or a ZIP backup PRIVACY No app account is required. The app has no advertising or analytics SDKs and does not upload your writing to developer-operated servers. With local models, text retrieval and answer generation run on your device. When you choose an external AI API, confirmed questions and manuscript content are sent directly to your selected provider, whose data handling and charges apply. Apple handles iCloud syncing according to your account settings. Pro is a one-time purchase and can be restored with the same Apple Account. Scrivener is a trademark of Literature & Latte Ltd. This independent app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Literature & Latte Ltd.

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ThinqBits

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Most apps agree with you. This one argues. ThinqBits Council is a private thinking partner for the decisions you keep circling. Not an oracle that tells you what to do — a room that comes at your thinking hard enough that the objection lands while you can still use it. HOW IT WORKS You say what you'd do. Your own answer, in your own words, written down before anyone can talk you out of it. That's what the debate pushes on. Five to seven thinqers argue with it. Each one comes at your question from a different angle. You watch where they clash on a live collision map — who is in tension, who converges, who builds on whom — not in a wall of transcript. You leave with the blind spots your own framing left out, and one short reusable principle worth keeping. Kept principles come back to argue in later councils. Then we check back. Once you know how the decision actually played out, you mark which objections turned out to count. That record is what makes you sharper — not the app. WHAT YOU GET • A live collision map of where your thinqers disagree, built as they argue • The blind spots your framing left out, and the questions still worth answering • A decision journal: every council kept, with what you decided and what happened • Calibration: we return once the outcome is known, and read back which objections mattered • Thinqer packs you can build, reuse, and share for the decisions you keep facing • A fit check that tells you honestly when this isn't the right tool for your question PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Every deliberation runs on your device using Apple Intelligence. There is no account, no backend, and no analytics. Your questions and your decisions never leave your phone — that isn't a setting you turn on, it's the only way the app is built. REQUIREMENTS Requires an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings. Without it you can still explore a full sample council to see how the room works. SUBSCRIPTION Your first council is free. After that, ThinqBits is $4.99/month or $34.99/year, and new subscribers start with a 14-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel any time in Settings. Reading your saved councils, your journal, and your calibration is never gated. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thinqbits.com/privacy ThinqBits is a reasoning partner, not a source of facts or professional advice. It reasons offline with no internet access, so verify anything factual. It is never a substitute for medical, legal, or financial counsel, or for a professional's judgment.

Screenshots

ScrivenerBridge4 screens
ThinqBits4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ScrivenerBridge at 18.0 against ThinqBits's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. ScrivenerBridge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ThinqBits sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
ScrivenerBridge versus ThinqBits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrivenerBridgeThinqBits
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerę˜Žē½” 蒋scad.io

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ScrivenerBridge

One-time1
  • Scrivener Companion Pro$9.99
2 purchases

ThinqBits

Subscriptions2
  • ThinqBits Council (Monthly)14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • ThinqBits Council14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is ScrivenerBridge free?
ScrivenerBridge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThinqBits free?
ThinqBits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ScrivenerBridge or ThinqBits have ads?
Neither ScrivenerBridge nor ThinqBits shows ads.

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