Comparison

Heptabase vs Lumi

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Heptabase

This visual note-taking app helps users learn complex subjects by organizing information on digital whiteboards. Access all your notes, journals, and whiteboards on the go.

Highlights
  • Visual note-taking
  • Whiteboard organization
  • Access notes on mobile
  • Journal entries
  • Learn complex topics
Features
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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.

About

Lumi

Organize your thoughts and tasks through conversation. This app uses a chat interface to capture ideas, manage to-dos, and plan projects. It offers a streamlined workflow with elegant boards for timelines, anytime tasks, projects, and future plans.

Highlights
  • Chat-powered task capture
  • GTD-inspired boards
  • Timeline, Anytime, Project, Someday views
  • Task rescheduling and reprioritization
  • Elegant dark mode interface
  • Personal assistant functionality
Features
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Say it. It's on your list. Lumi is a to-do list you talk to. Type or dictate the sentence in your head — "Remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at 4pm" — and it becomes a real to-do with the date, the repeat and the reminder already set. No forms. No date pickers. No account. WHAT MAKES LUMI DIFFERENT ▸ It understands you on the device, not in the cloud. There is no sign-up, no server, and nothing sent anywhere. Lumi reads what you write right on your iPhone — so it works on a plane, in a basement, and on the private things you would rather not hand to a data centre. ▸ It asks instead of guessing. Most assistants guess, and a wrong to-do costs more than a question. When something is missing, Lumi asks for that one thing — and every question comes with a way out. ▸ One sentence can become a whole plan. "Set up a project called Move house: find a flat, sign the lease, pack, hire movers, move. First one next week, one a week." Lumi lays out the steps, dates them, and marks which dates are yours and which it suggested. Nothing is written until you tap Create. ▸ Change many things at once. Undo them at once. "Move the lease signing, the packing and the movers all to next week" shows you exactly what will change before anything does — then takes it all back with one tap. ▸ A nudge, not a nag. One kind message a day: the shape of your morning, a gentle wind-down at night, your week in one breath. No streaks to defend, no guilt. AND THE REST OF IT • Natural-language dates and repeats — "next Friday", "every Wednesday", "the 20th of every month" • Reminders you set in words: at the time, 15 minutes before, that morning • Today, Upcoming, Anytime and Projects, plus Deadlines, Someday, Logbook and Trash • Drag to reorder and reschedule anything • A Home Screen widget that shows today — and lets you tick things off without opening the app • Undo everywhere, and a log of every change Lumi made for you YOUR DATA Everything lives on your iPhone. There is no account, no analytics, and no upload. If you want your to-dos on your other devices, iCloud Sync puts them in your own Apple ID — not ours. Lumi is for the person who has tried every to-do app and abandoned every one of them, because keeping them up to date was more work than the work. Terms of Use: https://zhoufan97.github.io/lumi/terms.html

Screenshots

Heptabase3 screens
Lumi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Heptabase at Free against Lumi's $9.99. Heptabase also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (71 vs 1). Lumi's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On update cadence and ads 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

Heptabase is free to download; Lumi costs $9.99 up front. Lumi sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Heptabase asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lumi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heptabase has 71 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Heptabase ships an update every 6 days, Lumi weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Heptabase versus Lumi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeptabaseLumi
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.3 (71 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings71 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHepta Platforms, Inc帆 周

Customer experience

Heptabase

All ratings71 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative23.3%

Lumi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Heptabase

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Lumi

Subscriptions1
  • Lumi Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Heptabase free?
Heptabase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumi free?
Lumi costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Heptabase or Lumi?
Lumi is rated higher. Heptabase averages 4.3 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Lumi averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Heptabase or Lumi have ads?
Neither Heptabase nor Lumi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Heptabase or Lumi?
Heptabase ships an update every 6 days, and Lumi weekly. Most recently, Heptabase was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lumi on October 31, 2026.

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