Comparison

Ideamixer vs Inspirater

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

Head to head
About

Ideamixer

This application helps users brainstorm and generate new ideas by allowing them to add their own thoughts and mix them together. It provides useful functions for creative thinking and idea generation.

Highlights
  • Add personal ideas
  • Mix ideas together
  • Generate new concepts
  • Creative thinking tool
  • Idea brainstorming
Features
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Ideamixer is an app for brainstorming and growing your ideas. An idea is a new combination of things you already know — not something out of nowhere. Ideamixer helps you capture what you notice, feel, and learn, then combine it all to spark new ideas. Over 500 built-in words are ready to jump-start your thinking. Tools to expand and deepen your ideas - Idea Hex: expand associations in a mandala-chart layout - Virtual Talk: answer questions about your idea to find new perspectives - Missing Link: explore what connects your idea and a random word - Idea Link: organize your thoughts in a mind-map style - Osborn's Checklist: transform an idea through nine viewpoints - Idea Mixer / Random Mix: combine ideas with each other or with random words - Separate: split an overgrown idea into a brand-new one - Color coding: categorize your ideas by color - AI suggestions (iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence): on-device suggestions for hex cells, child minds, and explanations Go ahead and get good ideas! --- Icons by Icons8

About

Inspirater

Features
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The application called an idea processor and an outline processor. When considering an idea, it's convenient in particular. There are an outline mode and a figure mode indicated by a figure. An outline mode is a tree structure and a parent-child relationship of an item is indicated and is easy to understand. For a figure mode to be indicated by a figure, it can be operated visually. The feature) ・Outline mode:  The operation which expresses the item by a tree structure and knows the relation between the item by a look is also easy. ・Diagram mode:  It's indicated by a figure and it's easy to look at the whole which can be operated, and the operation is also easy. * Corresponding to a language: It's indicated by a correspondence language with Japanese, English and a setting language of iOS About a pay edition The following function can be done now by a pay edition. Advertising display disappears Free Mode Display disappears. The monthly payment $2.49 / month --About automatic continuation accounting-- ●Accounting of a pay plan is charged via a iTunes account. ●A pay plan is renewed automatically. When it's before more than 24 hours of a registration period end, an automatic renewal can be suspended. ●A pay plan renewal is gone through the procedure for from 24 hours before of a registration period end by a period end. ●Please correspond to change in the registration contents and a stop of an automatic renewal from a setting screen of AppleID after purchase. ●Term of service and Privacy poricy http://juutar.com/app_store/support/inspirater/privacy_poricy.php ●Confirmation and cancellation AppStore app The "recommendation" in the lowest part is chosen > select the Apple ID > select 「show the Apple ID」> select the Taxnote for Management in Subscription. In This screen, if you can chose release of an automatic renewal/setting ●Attention ・By the way by which the one charged in the application is other than above, it can't be canceled. ・I'm not accepting about cancellation for the current month.

Screenshots

Ideamixer3 screens
Inspirater4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ideamixer and Inspirater are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Ideamixer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Inspirater sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ideamixer ships an update every 2 months, Inspirater every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ideamixer versus Inspirater: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeamixerInspirater
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColorBoxStudioJutaro Kimura

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ideamixer

One-time1
  • Remove Ad$3.99
1 purchases

Inspirater

Subscriptions1
  • INSPIRATER PLUS - Monthly$2.491 Month

Questions

Is Ideamixer free?
Ideamixer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inspirater free?
Inspirater is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ideamixer or Inspirater have ads?
Both Ideamixer and Inspirater show ads.
Which is updated more often, Ideamixer or Inspirater?
Ideamixer ships an update every 2 months, and Inspirater every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ideamixer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Inspirater on October 25, 2026.

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