Comparison

Ideamixer vs AI

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

AI

This app leverages AI to transform simple memos into detailed, actionable ideas. It helps users expand creativity and explore new perspectives, ideal for those who need help concretizing or refining initial concepts.

Highlights
  • Quick memo function
  • AI-generated idea provision
  • Detailed idea expansion
  • Multiple idea perspectives
  • Idea saving and management
Features
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AI-dea is a cutting-edge app that uses the popular Chat AI to support your idea generation. By utilizing AI, it provides instant and detailed ideas from simple one-line memos, expanding your creativity and providing new perspectives. It's especially recommended for those who can think of simple ideas but struggle to concretize them or want to improve them from multiple perspectives. AI-dea's main features include: Quick and easy memo function: You can quickly jot down your ideas as soon as you open the app. AI-generated idea provision: Powerful AI algorithms, utilizing Chat AI, provide concrete and detailed ideas from your memo in an instant. This AI-generated idea provision is the latest method to support your idea generation. Provide various ideas to the AI, such as video topics, shop events, and new product ideas. Idea saving: Not only your memos, but also the AI-generated ideas are saved in the app. Provide many ideas to the AI, gain inspiration, and further improve your ideas.

Screenshots

Ideamixer3 screens
AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AI at none against Ideamixer's 1. AI also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2). Ideamixer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ads 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. Ideamixer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AI asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ideamixer against 5.0 for AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ideamixer ships an update every 2 months, AI every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ideamixer versus AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeamixerAI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB74 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperColorBoxStudioyu nakamura

Customer experience

Ideamixer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

AI

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ideamixer

One-time1
  • Remove Ad$3.99
None

AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ideamixer free?
Ideamixer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AI free?
AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ideamixer or AI?
Ideamixer and AI are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Ideamixer or AI have ads?
Both Ideamixer and AI show ads.
Which is updated more often, Ideamixer or AI?
Ideamixer ships an update every 2 months, and AI every 5 months. Most recently, Ideamixer was updated on November 1, 2026 and AI on November 3, 2026.

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