Reflect Notes vs Dropbox Dash
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/
Dropbox Dash
This AI-powered tool helps teams find work-related files and information quickly across various platforms. It offers contextual chat and organized workspaces to keep projects moving efficiently.
- AI-powered search across connected tools
- Contextual chat for quick answers
- Living workspaces (Stacks) for organization
- Instant summaries from documents
- Consolidated view of team progress
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Dropbox Dash is the AI teammate that understands your work. With AI-powered search, contextual chat, and living workspaces called Stacks, Dash helps your team find what matters fast, capture context, and keep projects moving. Find what matters fast • Search across Dropbox and the tools you already use to quickly surface the right files, images, and videos • Ask Dash questions or get instant summaries and insights from your team’s documents Keep work organized and aligned • Bring files, links, and updates together in shareable, living workspaces called Stacks • Track progress and stay up to date with a clear, consolidated view of your team’s work
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dropbox Dash at none against Reflect Notes's shown. Dropbox Dash also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Reflect Notes's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 50%) and ratings volume (85 vs 12). On price, rating, 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
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 4.6 for Dropbox Dash. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reflect Notes has 85 ratings behind it against 12, 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 50% of Dropbox Dash's.
Reflect Notes ships an update monthly, Dropbox Dash weekly. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Reflect Notes | Dropbox Dash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (85 ratings) — better | 4.6 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 12 |
| 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 — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 16.7.10 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reflect App, LLC | Dropbox, Inc. |
Customer experience
Reflect Notes
Dropbox Dash
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
Dropbox Dash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reflect Notes
No in-app purchases
Dropbox Dash
No in-app purchases
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