NeoFinder vs Fleeting Thoughts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NeoFinder
Access and search your digital media library catalogs on your iPhone or iPad. Quickly find photos, movies, and songs with powerful search and detailed file information, including geotags displayed on a map.
- Access NeoFinder catalogs on iOS
- Search photos, movies, songs
- Powerful Find Editor
- Detailed file Inspector
- Preview cataloged files
- Display geotags on map
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Introducing NeoFinder iOS The leading disk cataloger for Macintosh is also available for iOS! Keep the NeoFinder catalogs of your entire digital library always with you! Use Dropbox, iCloud Drive, or the Finder to transfer your NeoFinder catalog files to your iPhone or iPad Find your photos, movies, songs, and any cataloged data quickly on your iPhone or iPad, wherever you go Use the powerful Find Editor to find exactly what you need The Inspector shows you all the details of your cataloged files, including Previews, EXIF, IPTC, ID3, XMP, song lyrics, cover art, if they are included in your catalogs Geotags of photos or movies are displayed on the map GeoFinder for all photos or movies within the visible range of the map
Fleeting Thoughts
Capture thoughts privately with voice, text, scans, videos, and files in a unified timeline. Your data stays on your device or chosen cloud storage, with no accounts or tracking. Edit, tag, and export your notes easily.
- Unified timeline for voice, text, scans, video, and files
- On-device transcription and Apple Intelligence cleanup
- Private data storage (device, iCloud, or Files app)
- Video trimming, reframing, and image cropping
- Document scanning with text extraction
- Tagging and filtering for organization
- Markdown or JSON export options
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Fleeting Thoughts is a private capture pipeline for the agentic era. Save ideas, notes, links, screenshots, scans, PDFs and voice thoughts the moment they appear, as plain files you control, ready for the notes apps, workflows and AI agents you choose. Use it when you want a fast private place to save something now and organize it later. Start with a quick voice note, paste text, share in a link, scan a page, import a file, or capture from Apple Watch. Everything lands in one clean timeline you control. - YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Every thought is saved as a plain, readable file, on your iPhone or in a folder you choose. Use those files with your notes app, your own database, your local agents or the AI assistant you prefer, or keep them just for yourself. Nothing requires an agent or a subscription, and your data stays yours whatever you use next. - CAPTURE FAST Tap the mic to record, type a note, paste from the clipboard, scan a page, import a photo or file, or share content into Fleeting Thoughts from other apps. - BUILT FOR THE MOMENT The app is designed for quick capture first. Save the thought, hear the confirmation, and move on. You can clean it up later. - TAGS THAT STAY SIMPLE Use lightweight tags to keep ideas, links, health notes, project thoughts, and other captures separated without turning capture into a filing task. - MEDIA THAT STAYS USEFUL Keep original images, scans, screenshots, videos, audio, and PDFs attached to the thought that created them. Preview, copy, share, export, trim, crop, or remove extra attachments when needed. - PDF READER COMPANION Open saved PDFs in a focused reader, resume where you left off, bookmark a page, save a page as an image, clip selected text, and add page notes back into the original thought. - APPLE WATCH CAPTURE Capture from your wrist when your phone is not in your hand. Watch recordings keep going while you use other apps, then arrive in your iPhone timeline, transcribed. - SEARCH AND EXPORT Search your timeline, copy individual thoughts, export selected groups, and use iPhone Spotlight to find saved thoughts from outside the app. - LOCAL-FIRST BY DEFAULT No account required. No tracking. Your captures stay private and local unless you choose to share or export them. You can also choose a folder for readable saved files. - ONE PURCHASE, EVERY PLATFORM Universal Purchase includes iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. Each app is designed for its own device: iPhone for capture on the go, Apple Watch for wrist capture, and Mac for desktop dictation. Fleeting Thoughts is for people who think faster than they can organize: builders, writers, researchers, students, and anyone who needs to save useful things before they disappear.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fleeting Thoughts at 100% against NeoFinder's 31%. Fleeting Thoughts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). NeoFinder's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (14 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, 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
NeoFinder costs $5.99 and Fleeting Thoughts $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fleeting Thoughts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of NeoFinder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fleeting Thoughts's.
NeoFinder ships an update every 5 months, Fleeting Thoughts every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NeoFinder | Fleeting Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Norbert Doerner | Dylan Russell |
Customer experience
NeoFinder
Fleeting Thoughts
In-app purchases
NeoFinder
No in-app purchases
Fleeting Thoughts
No in-app purchases
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