Comparison

Reflect Notes vs STRIKEWHEEL

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

STRIKEWHEEL

Features
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STRIKEWHEEL is a start engine, not a task manager. It never shows you a list. It deals you one card. You hold the button, feel five beats under your thumb, and a timer lights. That's the whole app. WHY IT WORKS THIS WAY If the problem were knowing what to do, a list would have fixed it by now. The gap isn't between not knowing and knowing — it's between knowing and starting. Lists make that gap wider, because every line is one more decision at exactly the moment you have none left. So STRIKEWHEEL takes the deciding away. One card. If it's the wrong one, swipe it away — as often as you like, forever, with nothing held against you. STARTING IS THE ACHIEVEMENT Every strike counts for life, and the number only goes up. There are no streaks here, nothing that breaks, and nothing that turns red when you disappear for a week — because a broken streak is the most common reason people quit apps like this, and almost nobody comes back after losing one. Instead, everything you start feeds a fire. It grows with you. It never goes out. WHAT'S INSIDE • One card at a time — never a list, never a decision at a low moment • Hold to strike — the same five-beat ritual every time, so starting becomes muscle memory instead of a choice • A timer that fills instead of draining — stopping early still counts • Your burn lives on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so the phone can go face down • Too big? Split it — a heavy card becomes small first steps, worked out on your own device • The Thaw — something you've avoided for weeks arrives frozen. Melt it with your thumb and sit with it for two minutes. Contact is the win. • Brain dump — one line per thought. Sorting is the app's job, not yours. • A small flame that sits with you while you work • Four themes with matched fonts, and one optional card a day. Never more. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Your cards live on your iPhone and nowhere else, and the core app works fully offline. Smart Splitting is the one feature that can use the internet, it is off until you switch it on, and it sends only the text of the single card you are splitting. Made by one person, for a brain that needed it.

Screenshots

Reflect Notes4 screens
STRIKEWHEEL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: STRIKEWHEEL at none against Reflect Notes's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Reflect Notes versus STRIKEWHEEL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReflect NotesSTRIKEWHEEL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (85 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings85 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReflect App, LLCJoshua Wilfred Sekar

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

STRIKEWHEEL

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reflect Notes

No in-app purchases

None

STRIKEWHEEL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reflect Notes free?
Reflect Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is STRIKEWHEEL free?
STRIKEWHEEL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Reflect Notes or STRIKEWHEEL have ads?
Reflect Notes shows ads; STRIKEWHEEL does not.

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