Comparison

iWrote vs Second Brain Map

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

Head to head
About

iWrote

A calm Markdown writing app designed for focused drafting, note-taking, and long-form content creation. It offers features like a clean editor, focus mode, style checking, and revision history to enhance the writing process.

Highlights
  • Clean Markdown editor
  • Focus Mode for sentence highlighting
  • Style Check for writing improvements
  • Outline view for section rearrangement
  • Revision history for checkpoints
  • Immersive Reader mode
  • Import/export Markdown files
Features
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iWrote is a calm Markdown writing app for drafts, notes, essays, and long-form work. Write with focus. Organize your structure. Review your history. Read your draft like a finished page. FEATURES • Support iPhone Duo • Clean Markdown editor for drafts and notes • Focus Mode to highlight the sentence you’re writing • Style Check for fillers, clutter, clichés, and typos • Outline view to rearrange sections quickly • Revision history to restore earlier draft checkpoints • Immersive Reader mode for polished reading • Themes and typography tuned for comfortable writing • Import and export Markdown files Built for writers who want a quiet workspace. Novels, essays, journaling, planning, and everyday drafting. Open iWrote. Start a draft. Keep writing.

About

Second Brain Map

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Brain Map is a free, private second brain for your iPhone. Capture a thought in one tap, by typing, talking, snapping a photo, scanning a document or sharing a link, and Brain Map gives it a title, tags it, files it into the right project and connects it to what you already know. Find anything by meaning, see how your ideas connect on a living map, and ask your notes questions. All the AI runs on your iPhone: no account, no subscription, no limits. CAPTURE ANYTHING IN ONE TAP • A capture button on every tab: tap to write, touch and hold for voice, photo or link (or pick a capture bar or tab in Settings) • Voice notes of any length, transcribed on your iPhone • Scan documents into searchable PDFs; snap a whiteboard or a receipt and its text, labels and QR codes become searchable • Attach PDFs and files: their text is searchable too • Share links and files from Safari or any app • Capture from widgets, Control Center, the Action button and Siri WRITE YOUR WAY • Headings, lists and checklists you tick right in the note, with Apple Writing Tools • Templates for meetings, journals and project briefs, or your own, from the / menu • Link notes, projects and days with @ and see which notes link back MEETING NOTES • Record a meeting of up to three hours, even with the screen locked, with a Live Activity • A timestamped transcript and moments you mark; tap a time to hear that part again • With Apple Intelligence: a summary, decisions and action items that become tasks IT ORGANISES ITSELF • Every note gets a title, tags and a short summary, made on your iPhone • Notes it isn't sure about wait in the Inbox for a one-tap confirm • Undo anything with one tap; pin, filter by tag, set reminders • "From your past" brings back notes you'd forgotten PROJECTS THAT FILL THEMSELVES • A project is just a name: add an emoji and a due date if you like • New notes file themselves into the right project; when Brain Map isn't sure, it suggests and you decide • It spots to-dos in your notes ("call the bank on Friday") with their due dates • Tick off tasks, watch the progress, and show due dates in a separate Brain Map calendar SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY • Share a project or a note with a link; choose who can edit and who can only view • iCloud sync keeps your notes up to date on every iPhone you use SEE HOW YOUR IDEAS CONNECT • A living map of your notes, clustered by topic, with your projects as hubs • Brain Map suggests links between related notes; keep the good ones, dismiss the rest FIND ANYTHING BY MEANING • Search for what you meant, not the exact words: "that pricing idea" finds "try a free tier with a tip jar" • Your notes in iPhone search (Spotlight), if you want them there • Works across English, Russian and Ukrainian notes ASK YOUR NOTES • Type or say a question and get the notes that answer it • With Apple Intelligence, a written answer that cites its notes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics • All the AI runs on your iPhone: speech, text in photos and scans, tags, links, search and answers • Your notes stay on your device and, if you turn on sync, in your own private iCloud. There is no Brain Map server, and we never see your notes • Lock any note with Face ID: it's encrypted on your iPhone and in iCloud, and stays out of search, widgets and Spotlight • Export everything as Markdown, or a note or a whole project as a PDF FREE, FOR REAL • No subscription, no trial, no daily caps, no limits on notes or projects • In English, Russian and Ukrainian Brain Map works offline. Sync and sharing need iCloud; summaries and written answers need an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Everything else works on any iPhone with iOS 26.

Screenshots

iWrote4 screens
Second Brain Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Second Brain Map at Free against iWrote's $0.49. Second Brain Map also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). iWrote's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On 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

Second Brain Map is free to download; iWrote costs $0.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iWrote ships an update every 5 days, Second Brain Map daily. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iWrote versus Second Brain Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWroteSecond Brain Map
Price$0.49Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTsz Chung ChauRinat Maltsev

In-app purchases

None

iWrote

No in-app purchases

None

Second Brain Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iWrote free?
iWrote costs $0.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is Second Brain Map free?
Second Brain Map is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iWrote or Second Brain Map have ads?
Neither iWrote nor Second Brain Map shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iWrote or Second Brain Map?
iWrote ships an update every 5 days, and Second Brain Map daily. Most recently, iWrote was updated on November 13, 2026 and Second Brain Map on November 10, 2026.

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