Reflect Notes vs HEY Calendar
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/
HEY Calendar
This calendar app organizes your schedule around days and weeks, reflecting how people naturally think. It supports habits, highlights important events, and accommodates flexible scheduling for tasks that don't have a fixed time. Enjoy a full-featured experience with unique twists on conventional calendar functions.
- Weekly view focus
- Habit tracking
- Event highlighting
- Flexible scheduling for 'maybe' tasks
- Event countdowns
- Day labels for context
- Color-coded sub-calendars
- Flexible reminders
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Make your day. The all-new HEY Calendar puts time on your side. Week after week, not month after month People think in days and weeks, not months. What’s tomorrow? Later this week? Next week? The HEY Calendar is built around how you think, not how paper calendars were designed. Habits and highlights Establish a habit, stick with it. Circle important events so they stand out. Fill your days with memories or moments — not just events. “Sometime this week” mimics real life Need to get an oil change? Get some cash from the ATM? Write a thank you note? Maybe this week or next, just not exactly sure when you’ll have a chance? HEY knows “maybe” is a real thing. And plenty more The HEY Calendar is a full-featured calendar with many original twists on common — and not so common — conventions. Soon you’ll wonder why all calendars don’t work like this. - Set countdowns for anticipated events - Use Day Labels to add context to days - Set up color-coded sub-calendars - Flexible reminders so you don’t miss out
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HEY Calendar at none against Reflect Notes's shown. HEY Calendar also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (655 vs 85). Reflect Notes's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 56%). On price, rating, update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Reflect Notes against 4.7 for HEY Calendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEY Calendar has 655 ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Reflect Notes's written reviews are positive against 56% of HEY Calendar's.
Reflect Notes ships an update monthly, HEY Calendar fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reflect Notes | HEY Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (85 ratings) — better | 4.7 (655 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews — better | 56.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 | 655 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reflect App, LLC | 37Signals LLC |
Customer experience
Reflect Notes
HEY Calendar
User reviews
Reflect Notes
From 85 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Sleek UI and design
- 🚀 Fast and efficient performance
- 💡 Innovative AI features (dictation, chat)
- 🔗 Strong backlinking capabilities
- 🗓️ Intuitive daily note structure
Room to improve
- 🐌 Development has slowed significantly
- 📉 Roadmap is whittling down
- 😠 Hostile responses to feedback
- 🧱 Basic functionality, lacks advanced features (tables, formatting)
- 📱 Frustrating user experience on mobile/touch devices
HEY Calendar
From 655 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Thoughtful and different approach
- 👍 Lovely UI
- 👍 Wonderful UI
- 👍 Innovative features like 'Sometime this Week'
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable syncing
- 🔍 Lacks integration with other calendars
- 🔍 Missing key features like month/year view and search
- 🔍 Clunky and unintuitive user experience
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
HEY Calendar
Reported bugs
4 issues- Events not showing up on calendar
- Notifications not working as expected
- Frequent crashes and performance issues
- Inability to edit events from external calendars
Requested features
5 requests- Two-way sync with other calendar services
- Ability to set custom recurrence patterns
- Integration with mapping/navigation apps
- Family/shared calendar support
- Calendar widget for quick access
In-app purchases
Reflect Notes
No in-app purchases
HEY Calendar
No in-app purchases
