Comparison

Recall vs Reflect Open

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

Head to head
About

Recall

This app creates a personal knowledge base by summarizing online content like videos, articles, and podcasts. It automatically categorizes and links saved summaries, aiding in content discovery and connection. It also employs spaced repetition and active recall techniques to enhance long-term knowledge retention.

Highlights
  • Summarize any online content
  • Save summaries to personal knowledge base
  • Automatic categorization of summaries
  • Automatic linking of related content
  • Spaced repetition reviews
  • Active recall testing
Features
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Every AI gives you the same answers. Recall gives you yours. Join over 500K professionals, students and lifelong learners who are saving hours and turning their knowledge into their edge. One living space for your knowledge and the AI model of your choice. Save what matters, write what you think. Over time, you curate an AI that knows what you know. SAVE, SUMMARIZE & ORGANIZE INSTANTLY Share YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs, TikToks, recipes, and more with the Recall app. We do the rest. AGENTIC AI CHAT Ask questions across your entire knowledge base, search the internet, or combine both in one conversation. Choose your AI model. Switch models mid conversation. No lock in. LISTEN MODE Turn any content into a summary you can listen to in a custom voice you create. Learn on the go, your way. AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION See how everything you've saved connects. Your content is automatically categorized and linked, no manual filing. Explore your knowledge visually and discover relationships you didn't know existed. QUIZ & RETAIN Stop doom scrolling and start learning. Generate quizzes on any content. Challenge friends with public quizzes. Spaced repetition and active recall resurface what you've saved at optimal intervals to lock it into long-term memory. BUILT FOR POWER USERS Bulk summarize, tag, connect, and generate quizzes at scale. API and MCP access lets you connect your knowledge base to any other AI tool. CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Start on mobile, finish on desktop. Don't break your workflow.

About

Reflect Open

Features
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Reflect Open is a local-first note-taking app for daily notes, linked thinking, and private AI over your own files. Start each day in a daily note, capture meetings, ideas, tasks, and journal entries, then connect people and projects with wiki-style links. Reflect builds a personal graph from ordinary Markdown files, with fast search, backlinks, and optional semantic search that runs on-device. Your notes stay yours. Reflect has no account, no telemetry, and no Reflect-hosted cloud service. Notes are stored as plain Markdown in a folder you choose, with a rebuildable local SQLite index beside them. Optional AI chat, transcription, and sync features only run when you connect your own provider or storage, and private notes are blocked from external AI calls. Highlights: - Daily notes first, with quick capture into today. - Wiki links and backlinks instead of folders. - Full-text search and optional on-device semantic search. - Optional bring-your-own-key AI chat over your notes. - Audio memos with optional BYOK transcription. - iCloud Drive or Git-based sync using files you own. - Markdown source of truth for long-term portability. - Keyboard-native, minimal interface built for focus. Terms of Use: https://reflect.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://reflect.app/privacy

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
Reflect Open3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recall at none against Reflect Open's 2. Reflect Open's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Reflect Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Recall asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, Reflect Open every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recall versus Reflect Open: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallReflect Open
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul RichardsReflect App, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Reflect Open

Subscriptions2
  • Reflect Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Reflect Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reflect Open free?
Reflect Open is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recall or Reflect Open have ads?
Neither Recall nor Reflect Open shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall or Reflect Open?
Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, and Reflect Open every 11 days. Most recently, Recall was updated on September 18, 2026 and Reflect Open on September 17, 2026.

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