Comparison

Clarity vs ThinkCapture

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

Head to head
About

Clarity

Features
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Share anything you want to keep from Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, the web, PDFs and screenshots, and Clarity reads it, sums it up and files it into your areas. Find any save later by describing what you remember, see how your ideas connect on a visual map, and let Claude or ChatGPT search your second brain through a connector. SAVE FROM ANY APP • Share a link, image or file to Clarity from Safari, Mail, Photos or any app with a share button. • Hold + and talk. Voice notes are transcribed on your device, and a tap on any word plays the recording from there. • Saved links open back in the app they came from. FIND THE THING YOU HALF REMEMBER • Search the way you remember it: "the dentist invoice", "that talk about sleep". Results that are close in meaning show up too, not only exact words. • Every result says why it matched. • Text inside images is read on your device, so screenshots of receipts, slides and notes are searchable. SEE HOW IT FITS TOGETHER • Your saves sit on a canvas, coloured by the area of life they belong to and connected to related saves. COPY WHAT YOU REUSE • Tap a card, then Copy, and the text is on your clipboard. • Blanks: write {name} or {date} in a note and Clarity asks for the value before it copies. SHOW A DOCUMENT • Import PDFs and other files from Files, the share sheet, or drag and drop on iPad. • Preview any format with Quick Look, or share it on. • Present fills the screen with the document and nothing else, so you can turn your iPad to a client and swipe through the pages. • Clarity reads the text inside your documents on your device, so a phrase from page 12 finds the file. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Shortcuts actions: Copy Snippet, Find in Clarity and Save to Clarity. Run them from the Shortcuts app or with Siri. • Home Screen widgets copy a saved note in one tap. • On iPad, keep Clarity in Slide Over next to Mail, or side by side with any app, in any orientation. YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE • Everything you save is stored on your device. There is no account to create. • Signed in to iCloud, your library syncs between your devices through your own private iCloud. • Export everything at any time, including as an Obsidian vault. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT COSTS EXTRA • Saving is free and unlimited, and every feature that runs on your device works without paying. • Clarity Plus is an optional subscription at £4.99 a month or £39.99 a year, or the equivalent price in your country. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. It adds the online AI features: 1,000 AI summaries a month, connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your library, and checks for which saves really connect. • The subscription renews automatically at the end of each month or year until you cancel. If you start the free trial, the yearly price is charged when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. • Searching, copying, presenting, exporting and deleting never need Clarity Plus. • The AI features are off until you turn them on, and Clarity asks first. For a summary, the link goes to our server, where Cloudflare Workers AI writes it. For connection checks, a save's title and some of its text go to our server and on to Jev, from TypeSafe. Questions or problems: clarity@moonshard.co Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://clarity.moonshard.co/privacy

About

ThinkCapture

Features
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A link to read later. A task you can't forget. An idea that just popped into your head. Do you keep each of these in a different app? ThinkCapture is one place to drop all three. You don't pick where things go: whether it's a link, a task, or a passing thought, the AI on your device reads it and files it. You never classify. You never tag. You just write. ■ Three apps, in one - Links to read later — send a URL from the share sheet; it's saved with a headline and thumbnail. - Things to do — write "reply to Sam" or "buy milk" and the AI treats it as a task; add a due time and it reminds you. - Ideas and notes — thoughts, things you've learned, and what happened today all go in the same field, and they stay. ■ Why keep them together Storing things separately means deciding, every time, which app this belongs in — enough friction that you often don't write it down at all. Put it all in one place and it becomes impossible to find. Make sorting the AI's job and both problems disappear — and since the sorting never leaves your device, you can pile up anything without worrying. ■ What you can do - Instant capture — write in a single field; saving finishes at once, without waiting for the AI. One tap from Siri, Shortcuts, widgets, or Control Center. - On-device sorting — each note becomes a task, idea, knowledge, reference, journal, waiting, or someday item. Override any result; when it isn't sure it says "unclassified" instead of guessing. - Full-text search — find anything by keyword or tag name, completed items too. - Today — no cluttered inbox. Just today's tasks and your recurring habits. - Calendar — see the days you wrote on, and overlay events from your device's calendar (iCloud, Google, and more). Events are displayed, never changed. - Tags and priority — add your own tags on top of the AI's categories, and set high, medium, or low priority. - Due dates and reminders — set one in a tap; add a time and you get a notification. Recurring reminders too. - Photo attachments, plus a grid layout like paper in a notebook. - Home Screen widget — check today's tasks and capture without opening the app. - Backup and restore — export everything as JSON or Markdown anytime and import it back; restoring merges, never deletes. - iCloud sync (optional, off by default) — only about where data is stored; sorting still runs on device. ■ Pricing Writing, sorting, searching and exporting are free, with no limit on how much you capture. Everything above stays free and unlimited. ThinkCapture Pro is an optional subscription for how the app looks and where it lives: color themes (green, blue, purple), a board view that flips through your Inbox column by column, and a Lock Screen card for checking off today's tasks. In Japan it is ¥2,500 per year (about ¥208 a month, roughly 48% less than monthly) or ¥400 per month; your region's price is shown in the app. The yearly plan starts with a 14-day free trial for people new to the subscription. Both plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can cancel anytime under Settings > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. Without Pro, nothing is locked away and nothing stops you from writing more. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/172RyaTDqcAQElhyr3hXf6zCRFwCoLHf895k01GYDFvI/ ■ About privacy ThinkCapture's AI sorting uses Apple's on-device AI (Apple Intelligence / Foundation Models). What you write is never sent to an outside server to be classified, and no account is required. Saving a link fetches only that page's public headline and thumbnail. ■ Requirements Automatic sorting requires iOS 26 or later on an Apple Intelligence–capable device. On other devices you tap the classification badge to pick a category by hand — it still works as an ordinary notes and tasks app. Don't classify. Don't organize. Just write.

Screenshots

Clarity4 screens
ThinkCapture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Clarity at every 2 days against ThinkCapture's weekly. 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. Clarity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ThinkCapture sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clarity ships an update every 2 days, ThinkCapture weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Clarity versus ThinkCapture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClarityThinkCapture
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoon Shard LtdTakashi Kishida

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Clarity

Subscriptions2
  • Clarity Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Clarity Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

ThinkCapture

Subscriptions2
  • ThinkCapture Pro(月額)$1.991 Month
  • ThinkCapture Pro(年額)14 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Clarity free?
Clarity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThinkCapture free?
ThinkCapture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clarity or ThinkCapture have ads?
Neither Clarity nor ThinkCapture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clarity or ThinkCapture?
Clarity ships an update every 2 days, and ThinkCapture weekly. Most recently, Clarity was updated on October 31, 2026 and ThinkCapture on October 31, 2026.

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