Comparison

Reflect Notes vs Hindsight

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

Head to head
About

Reflect Notes

A minimalist note-taking app that helps you organize thoughts and discover insights. It offers AI-powered chat with your notes, voice transcription, and seamless syncing. Enhance your thinking with intuitive linking and secure offline access.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note chat for insights
  • Intuitive note linking system
  • Voice transcription for hands-free notes
  • Customizable AI prompts for editing
  • Offline access and device syncing
  • End-to-end data encryption
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Reflect is a beautifully designed, minimalist note-taking app designed to help you think. Quickly jot down your ideas, notes, meetings and voice memos in one place. Chat with your notes using AI to uncover new insights and ideas you might have otherwise overlooked. Key Features: - Intuitive linking system to create associations between notes - State of the art voice transcription for hands-free note-taking - Customizable AI prompts to quickly edit notes with GPT-4 - Chat with your notes using AI for a more interactive experience - Offline access for uninterrupted productivity - Seamless syncing across all your devices - End-to-end encryption ensuring your data is safe and secure - Advanced search functionality to find what you need quickly - Calendar integration to quickly take notes during meetings Try Reflect for free and see how note-taking can actually improve your thinking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Hindsight

This app helps you build a daily reflection habit with short, insightful notes. Organize your thoughts into custom categories and set reminders to stay consistent. Review past entries to gain perspective and foster intentionality in your life.

Highlights
  • Daily reflection habit building
  • Short note-taking
  • Customizable categories
  • Reminder setting
  • Past entry review
  • Dark Mode support
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Reflection is the best investment we can make to live a better day. It doesn’t take filling up entire pages in a journal to find insights. Short notes about the moments of life add up to a big picture of where we are and help us see more clearly where we want to go. Hindsight is designed to help forge a new habit of reflection in the day-to-day. Customizable to your priorities but dead-simple so nothing bogs you down. Create categories for anything you want to keep track of and set reminders to help keep yourself consistent. Slowing down for a few seconds to think about the moment and jot down a note can bring a surprising boost of intentionality to our lives, but occasionally read the notes from your past self to get the best perspective. Once you have a Hindsight habit, use that newfound perspective to choose the next habit you want to practice—and you can add a new category for it to keep track of your progress. Customizable color schemes for each category and Dark Mode support make this habit easy on the eyes.

Screenshots

Reflect Notes4 screens
Hindsight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hindsight at 100% against Reflect Notes's 64%. Hindsight also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Reflect Notes's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (85 vs 5). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hindsight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reflect Notes has 85 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Reflect Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hindsight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reflect Notes ships an update monthly, Hindsight every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Reflect Notes versus Hindsight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReflect NotesHindsight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (85 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings85 — better5
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 15 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReflect App, LLCRakish Labs Ltd.

Customer experience

Reflect Notes

All ratings83 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral1.2%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral16.9%
Negative18.6%

Hindsight

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Reflect Notes

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Secure login link not received
  • TestFlight privileges revoked unexpectedly
  • Whole lines of text disappear on mobile
  • Cannot easily cancel AI chat on iOS
  • iPad version feels unfinished
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  • Basic UI/UX issues persist on iOS apps
  • Search acting as though #author tag doesn't exist
  • App freezes too often, causing note loss
  • Occasional bugs with Kindle sync and author tags

Requested features

18 requests
  • Simple table support
  • More advanced text formatting support
  • Improved search functionality (highlighting found text)
  • Official iPad app
  • Web app for Safari on Mac
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  • Android app
  • Full mobile web app with search and creation
  • Expand task functionality (recurring tasks, notifications)
  • Add color to notes
  • Configurable top bar in 'All Notes' on desktop
  • Persistent search results after backing out of a note
  • Tasks widget for home screen
  • Toolbar button for basic text formatting on mobile
  • Easier way to cancel AI chat on iOS
  • Differentiate books from comics in Kindle sync
  • Clarify Kindle sync behavior upfront
  • Adapt app to iPad screen ratio
  • UI tweaking for tasks and better grouping of dated tasks

Hindsight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reflect Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Hindsight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reflect Notes free?
Reflect Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hindsight free?
Hindsight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reflect Notes or Hindsight?
Hindsight is rated higher. Reflect Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 85 ratings, while Hindsight averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Reflect Notes or Hindsight have ads?
Reflect Notes shows ads; Hindsight does not.
Which is updated more often, Reflect Notes or Hindsight?
Reflect Notes ships an update monthly, and Hindsight every 15 months. Most recently, Reflect Notes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Hindsight on October 13, 2026.

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