Reflect Notes vs Heptabase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Heptabase
This visual note-taking application helps users learn complex subjects. The mobile version offers complete access to all your notes, journals, and whiteboards, allowing you to review your work on the go.
- Visual note-taking
- Learn complex topics
- Access cards and journals
- Read whiteboards
- Mobile access
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Heptabase is a visual note-taking app that helps you learn complex topics. The mobile app provides full access to all your cards and journals, and allows you to read all your whiteboards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Heptabase at none against Reflect Notes's shown. Heptabase also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Reflect Notes's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Reflect Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 70 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 69% and 69% positive.
Reflect Notes ships an update monthly, Heptabase weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reflect Notes | Heptabase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (85 ratings) — better | 4.3 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.1% of reviews — better | 69.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 70 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 242 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reflect App, LLC | Hepta Platforms, Inc |
Customer experience
Reflect Notes
Heptabase
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
Heptabase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reflect Notes
No in-app purchases
Heptabase
No in-app purchases
