BrickNote vs AskNote

Jot down a thought or what you just did, one line at a time, as if texting yourself. BrickNote stacks short memos like bricks and lets you look back on them by date. ■ QUICK MEMOS Open a notebook and start typing. Save a line to your quick memo notebook, or share text, links and photos from other apps. ■ NOTEBOOKS Group memos by topic, from daily life to books and plans, with colors and tags. ■ TIMELINE Every day you write adds a brick to your wall. See your streak and memos by date, and export them as Markdown. ■ TO-DOS AND REMINDERS Turn any memo into a to-do, check it off, and get a reminder when you need it. ■ TEXT STYLE AND HIGHLIGHTER Titles, bold, italic, strikethrough and five highlighter colors. ■ SEARCH Find memos by text, notebook or tag, and open them right from Spotlight. ■ KEEP IT SAFE - Lock notebooks with Face ID - iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad - Full backup and restore, Recently Deleted ■ WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS See recent memos on your Home Screen, and add memos with Shortcuts and Siri. BrickNote Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) - Unlimited notebooks (3 free, not counting the quick memo notebook) - Daily, weekly and monthly repeating reminders - Check off memos in widgets, large and Lock Screen widgets - Get text from photos - 4 app icons Notebook lock, iCloud sync, backup, export and the highlighter stay free. If you bought BrickNote before version 1.2.0, Pro is already included.

AskNote brings your notes, meeting minutes, and ideas together in one place—and lets you ask AI about them directly. On-device AI enables you to use AI offline. ■ Organize your way - Sort notes into folder-like hierarchies using tags - A block-based editor that freely mixes text and photos - Markdown rendering with syntax-highlighted code blocks - Star favorites, or flag notes as "Ask Later" questions to revisit ■ Ask AI about your notes - Ask questions grounded in your own notes, with the full conversation saved alongside each note - Agentic AI tools that can search, create, tag, and organize notes on your behalf - Automatic related-note suggestions, summaries, and tag recommendations - A personalized daily AI news briefing ■ Privacy first, your choice always - On-device AI options that work without an internet connection: Apple Intelligence, Google LiteRT-LM (with built-in model downloads), and Ollama - Or connect your own cloud AI—OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and more - You always decide which AI powers your notes ■ Meetings, handled - Record a meeting and let AI transcribe it and draft the minutes automatically - Action items are extracted ■ Everywhere you work - A universal app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro - Available in Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, Swedish, Danish, Hindi, and Vietnamese Unlock more AI capabilities with an AskNote Premium subscription. This app follows Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/