Thoughts vs Ask a Page
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thoughts
A private chat-style diary for capturing thoughts, memories, and experiences. Organize entries with photos, voice notes, and tasks, track your mood and habits, and secure your data with biometric locks.
- Chat-style diary entries
- Multimedia attachments (photos, voice, files)
- Mood and habit tracking
- Future self messages
- Customizable chat appearance
- Biometric app lock
- iCloud sync
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Your thoughts. Your memories. Your personal space. Thoughts is your private diary in the familiar chat style. Write down thoughts, capture experiences, and collect everything you don't want to forget - quickly, personally, and without distraction. • Capture thoughts like news Organize your entries in personal chats and supplement them with photos, files, drawings, voice recordings and tasks. • Reflect on mood and everyday life Record how you feel, keep a gratitude diary, and keep an eye on your habits. • Rediscover memories Browse your entries, rediscover them in the calendar and get insights into your past weeks. • Letters to your future self Write down thoughts, wishes, or tasks that only reappear at a time of your choice. • Personally designed Customize your chats with colors, icons, and backgrounds, and create thoughts the way you want. • Protected and private Lock the entire app or individual chats with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device code. • With iCloud Sync your listings between your Apple devices from your private iCloud storage. • Directly from the home screen Capture your current mood with the widget or open a new idea with a few steps. Thoughts is the place for everything that moves you. Write it down. Keep it. Think about it.
Ask a Page
This app offers a unique way to reflect and find personal insights by presenting a single line of text from a virtual book. Users can ask questions, and the app provides a contemplative answer, encouraging self-discovery. It features customizable book aesthetics and a private journaling function.
- Virtual book with single-line answers
- Themed chapters for questions
- Dynamic ambient lighting
- Interactive weather effects
- Personalized journaling and notes
- Shareable reflection cards
- Customizable book covers and paper
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Ask a Page is a small book that answers you. Choose a chapter if you like — Love, Work, Study or Self — then write your question, say it, or simply keep it in mind. Push the cover open with your finger, and the book falls open to a single line printed on paper. The book doesn’t decide for you, and it doesn’t predict anything. Each line is a pause: a small nudge, a gentler way to look, a reason to wait. Often the answer you notice is your own. A PAGE IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOMENT • The light in the room follows the time of day — dawn, day, dusk and night, with a desk lamp and a moonlit window after dark. • Wind, rain, a storm, snow: the weather changes from day to day, made right on your phone. • 156 original lines written for this book: the whole book, plus four chapters. KEEP WHAT MATTERS • Keep a page, and note how it felt and what you’d answer yourself — in the margin, like notes in a real book. • Days later, come back to it. The screen returns to the light of that day, and you can add what you think now. • Share a page as a quiet card, only when you choose to. MAKE IT YOUR BOOK • Seven jackets and papers, all included. • A bookplate on the flyleaf, with your name. QUIET BY DESIGN • Free for the first three days you open the book, as many pages as you like. After that, unlock the whole book once: no subscription, no ads, no limit on pages. • No account. Everything stays on this iPhone. Hold-to-speak turns your voice into text on the device and never saves or uploads it. • Back up your pages to a file and bring them to a new phone. In English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and Arabic. Ask a Page is for reflection, not advice, and isn’t a substitute for medical, psychological, legal or financial help. If a question touches on life and death, the book won’t turn a page; it shows where to find someone to talk to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thoughts at none against Ask a Page's 1. Thoughts also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Ask a Page sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thoughts asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Thoughts against 5.0 for Ask a Page. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Thoughts ships an update weekly, Ask a Page every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thoughts | Ask a Page |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Ring | 飞 吕 |
Customer experience
Thoughts
Ask a Page
In-app purchases
Thoughts
No in-app purchases
Ask a Page
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