Pensieve vs Note To Email
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/
Note To Email
Quickly capture thoughts, memos, and to-dos and send them directly to your email inbox. This straightforward application allows for fast delivery of notes, with the option to attach images and send to two different email addresses simultaneously.
- Quick note creation
- Send notes to email
- Fast delivery
- Image attachments
- Send to two emails
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If you’re looking for a no-frills way to quickly jot down important information, the Note To Email app is a perfect solution. With Note To Email, you can write notes, thoughts, memos, and to-dos and send them straightly into your email inbox. It’s a free app with an intuitive and easy-to-use design. How Note To Email works: You launch the Note To Email app -> type your note -> press the send button -> you’re done. Key features Fast delivery: In a few seconds, Note To Email sends your note to your inbox. Image attachments: You can add pictures to your note. Two emails: The Note To Email app allows you to send your notes to two emails. For example, to your personal and business inbox.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pensieve at 4.7 against Note To Email's 3.0. Pensieve also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 50%) and ratings volume (82 vs 2). Note To Email's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Pensieve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Note To Email asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pensieve holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pensieve has 82 ratings behind it against 2, 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 50% of Note To Email's.
| Parameter | Pensieve | Note To Email |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (82 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Window Seat Labs, LLC | Steelkiwi Inc |
Customer experience
Pensieve
Note To Email
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
Note To Email
No in-app purchases







