Pensieve vs Manageable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pensieve
Easily capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and to-dos by emailing them to yourself. This app provides quick capture tools like audio recording, photo attachments, and text pasting, ensuring your ideas are saved without interrupting your flow. It prioritizes user privacy with no data mining or ads.
- Audio recording with speech-to-text
- Built-in camera for photo attachments
- Attachment picker for photos and files
- Quick paste for text, links, and images
- Email from Apple Watch
- Share extension for in-app capture
- Customizable email formatting
- Offline capture
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If you’ve ever emailed yourself, Pensieve is for you. Just capture, send, and remember! Pensieve is the perfect Idea Inbox companion, a Magic Warp Zone for your mind. Ideas, to-dos, and inspiration pop into your head throughout the day, often at the wrong time and in the wrong place. You want to capture those thoughts somehow, but you’ll forget to check your other notes app, texting yourself won’t work, and writing an email is clunky. You need to get these ideas out of your mind and off of your phone now, so you can get back to what you’re doing and stay in the moment with a clear head. You need a powerful, easy-to-use tool that can teleport your thoughts from here and now to the time and place where they belong. You need an idea warp zone. You need Pensieve, the notes app you'll actually use. == Features == Powerful capture tools, deep customization, and lightning-fast email delivery: • Record audio memos and get automatic speech-to-text transcripts. • Built-in camera that attaches photos as soon as you take them. • Attachment picker with quick access to your photo library and files. • Quick paste button for emailing yourself text, links, and images. • Email yourself from your Watch using the Pensieve watch app. • Email yourself from within other apps using Pensieve Share. • Custom rules put you in control over how emails from Pensieve are formatted. • With the power of Pensieve you can send to multiple inboxes with one tap. • Works offline. Capture thoughts without the internet and send them later. == Privacy & Security First == Pensieve is committed to your privacy and security. The app doesn't contain any of the icky practices of big tech or other companies! - NO data mining. - NO advertisements. - NO attention-grabbing tactics. Only respect for you and your time, attention, and data. Learn more at https://privacy.pensieve.io. == Get in Touch == Tweet to @PensieveTweets with questions, feedback, etc. == Terms == By using Pensieve you agree to the Pensieve Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Manageable
Break down large goals into manageable steps with this hierarchical task manager. Organize projects into subtasks and view a flat, prioritized action list. Features include gesture-driven navigation, due dates, reminders, and cloud sync.
- Hierarchical task breakdown
- Gesture-driven interface
- Prioritization and reordering
- Due dates and reminders
- Cloud sync (IAP)
- Home screen widgets
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• Have a goal. Make it manageable. • Manageable helps you focus on the next task no matter how many projects you have to juggle at the same time. Start with your projects, goals or even dreams and split each one into steps required to complete it. Split each step further into lists of subtasks until you end up with simple actionable items. Manageable presents all your leaf items across your selected project as a flat prioritised action list, hiding complexity when you don't need it. Clutter-free hierarchical lists, a breeze to build and navigate with these features: • Clean gesture-driven interface • Reorder and prioritize in one gesture • Set due dates with reminders • Set reschedule interval for recurrent tasks • Efficient color-coding of your items • Two-tap navigation between your active projects • Search by multiple words or substrings • Sync application data across different devices via Cloud Sync (available as an IAP) • Import or share your project outlines • Export your ordered action lists • Backup data to file system or cloud • Home screen and Control Center widgets • Unlimited undo/redo Manageable offers three widgets: 1. Favorite Projects widget lists your most active projects, i.e. those you recently opened in Action view, exactly as you see in the Navigation view. 2. Actions widget is a list of next tasks in the project of your choice. You can have several Actions lists on your home-screen for different projects. 3. Tasks Due widget shows only the tasks with the nearest due dates before they actually become due. Gestures: ● In Task View • Pull down/up to add item • Hold and drag to reorder/prioritize • Swipe the title left for Action list • Swipe the title right to go to the top • Pull down with 2 fingers for import menu • Pull up with 2 fingers for export menu ● In Action view • Pull down to filter by priority ● Anywhere • Swipe item for menu • Tap and hold item to edit • Tap title for Navigation view, tap again to dismiss • Pinch out/in to switch wrapping of long task names on/off • Shake/3-finger tap to undo/redo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pensieve at 91% against Manageable's 65%. Pensieve also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pensieve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Manageable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pensieve holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pensieve has 82 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Pensieve's written reviews are positive against 65% of Manageable's.
Pensieve ships an update every 6 weeks, Manageable every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pensieve | Manageable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (82 ratings) — better | 4.4 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better | 64.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Window Seat Labs, LLC | Mu-sonic |
Customer experience
Pensieve
Manageable
In-app purchases
Pensieve
- Boost Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- All Access Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Boost Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- All Access Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Manageable
- Cloud Sync$2.99









