SiYuan vs 为知笔记 X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SiYuan
A privacy-focused personal knowledge management system that allows offline use and encrypted data synchronization. It enables users to combine blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to organize their thoughts.
- Privacy-first knowledge management
- Offline data support
- End-to-end encrypted sync
- Fuse blocks, outlines, and links
- Refactor thinking
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SiYuan is a privacy-first personal knowledge management system that supports complete offline use, as well as end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.
为知笔记 X
This app combines personal note-taking with team collaboration. Save important information, collect web content, and write diaries. It supports real-time multi-person editing and synchronizes data across all your devices for seamless access.
- Real-time multi-person collaboration
- Supports text, images, documents, to-do lists
- Markdown syntax support
- Office file preview and editing
- Insert various content components (flowcharts, maps, media)
- One-click WeChat content collection
- Email forwarding and saving
- Encrypted notes for privacy
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WizNote is the perfect combination of a light document-based personal efficiency tool and a team collaboration service. - With WizNote Notes, you can save important information permanently, collect web content and WizNote logs, write personal diaries and work journals, and record inspirations and ideas. - Support multi-person real-time collaboration. One-click sharing can efficiently complete light task collaboration and tracking with others. - All data can be synchronized on a computer, cell phone, tablet, and web page to keep consistent. The editor that supports multi-person real-time collaboration - Multiple formats: text, images, photos, documents, to-do lists - Markdown syntax: let you focus on the content and render a beautiful document after writing. - Office file preview: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF can preview the body and update directly after editing - Insert multiple content components: flowcharts, brain maps, local audio and video, video websites, design prototypes - One-click collection of WeChat content: follow the WeChat official account, one-click collection of valuable content to WizNote notes. - Email forwarding and saving to personal or group: Each person or group has an exclusive mywiz mailbox, which can be saved by forwarding emails. Secure and private saving - Encrypted notes are encrypted by certificates so that even if others access the notes, the contents of the encrypted notes cannot be viewed. Efficient organization - Multi-level catalog: Flexible to build your own and team's knowledge classification system. - Full-text search: find the information you need quickly by keywords. Convenient and fast synchronization - Support multi-platform cell phone, computer, tablet, and web data keep consistent. Mobile Sharing and Collaboration - Easy sharing of data, easy access to information for teams. - Multi-author collaborative creation, team members collaborative editing, content updates in time to remind. - Collaboration around the content of the discussion to make up for the lack of Email, QQ, and WizNote group discussion. About us WeChat public number: WizNote
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SiYuan at 67% against 为知笔记 X's 17%. SiYuan also leads on rating (3.9 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). 为知笔记 X's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. SiYuan sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and 为知笔记 X sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SiYuan holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SiYuan has 30 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of SiYuan's written reviews are positive against 17% of 为知笔记 X's.
SiYuan ships an update every 9 days, 为知笔记 X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SiYuan | 为知笔记 X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (30 ratings) — better | 2.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 456 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yunnan Liandi Technology Co., Ltd. | Beijing Wozhi Technology Co. Ltd |
Customer experience
SiYuan
为知笔记 X
In-app purchases
SiYuan
- PRO Features$79.99
- Subscription$188.99
为知笔记 X
- WizNote X Yearly$8.99
