Comparison

NextNote vs Solmari

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

Head to head
About

NextNote

Features
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Capture the thought now. Keep shaping it later. NextNote brings quick capture, rich-text editing, voice input, organization, and AI writing tools into one continuous note-taking workflow. Use it for passing ideas, meeting notes, study material, checklists, journals, project plans, or long-form drafts that need room to grow. CAPTURE FROM HOME Open NextNote and start typing without choosing a complicated format first. When typing is not convenient, capture the moment with voice, photos, or video. A quick capture is not a disconnected message or disposable draft. Once saved, it becomes a document you can keep editing, search later, organize, reuse, and share. Move from one sentence to a complete piece of writing without starting over in another tool. NextNote works well for: • Quick notes, memos, and everyday ideas • Meeting notes and work documentation • Class notes, research material, and study guides • Journals, reading notes, and writing drafts • To-do lists, checklists, and project planning • Voice thoughts, photo references, and video clips A FLEXIBLE EDITOR FOR REAL WRITING Create a simple note or develop a longer document in the same editor. Structure your work with headings, paragraphs, rich-text formatting, numbered and bulleted lists, checklists, quotes, and links. Add images, audio, video, drawings, and other content blocks when words alone are not enough. Start rough and refine over time. Save useful structures as templates for recurring meeting notes, weekly plans, study reviews, journals, or content production. Your capture and writing tools stay together, so organizing an idea does not require moving it across several apps. VOICE AND MULTIMEDIA NOTES Use voice when you need to record an idea faster than you can type, then continue working with the text. Keep images, recordings, videos, and drawings beside the written context in one document. This makes it easier to preserve source material, visual references, and the process behind your work. You can also send text, links, images, or files to NextNote from the system share sheet, then place the imported material in a new or existing document. AI WRITING HELP, ONE SWIPE AWAY AI tools live inside the writing flow instead of in a separate chat. Select text and swipe left to use focused actions in the current document: • Polish wording and improve clarity • Expand a short thought into a fuller passage • Highlight keywords and important points • Find and add a relevant visual Each action starts from text you deliberately select, so you can keep your intent and decide what to change. There is no need to copy a passage into another app or interrupt your writing session. SEARCH, ARCHIVE, AND REUSE Search document titles and body text to find an earlier note quickly. Move work you do not need right now into archive folders to keep Home focused. Deleted documents go to Trash first and can be recovered during the retention period. Turn structures you use repeatedly into templates. As your collection grows, search, folders, archives, Trash, and templates give you practical ways to manage personal notes, work records, study material, and creative projects. LOCAL NOTES AND ICLOUD Keep using local notes and core editing tools while offline. Online services are used only when a related feature needs them. On supported Apple devices, you can use iCloud according to your settings to store and sync content, then continue writing across iPhone, iPad, and compatible devices. SHARE, EXPORT, AND PUBLISH When your work is ready to leave the notebook, share it from the document. Send material to other apps, or deliberately publish a document as a web page. You can also prepare adapted versions for different content platforms when that fits your workflow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Solmari

This AI assistant operates entirely on your device, offering private conversations, writing assistance, coding help, and brainstorming without needing an internet connection. It ensures your data never leaves your iPhone, providing a secure and offline user experience.

Highlights
  • 100% Private On-Device AI
  • Works Offline Anywhere
  • Free to Use
  • Coding Assistance
  • Writing and Editing Tools
  • Document Chatting
  • Voice Input
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Solmari is a private AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone. Ask questions, write and edit, brainstorm, get coding help, or just chat — all without an internet connection, and without your words ever leaving your device. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Nothing is sent to a server, because there is no server. Your conversations stay on your phone, always. WHY SOLMARI • 100% Private — Everything happens on-device. Your chats, questions, and documents never leave your iPhone. • Works Offline — No Wi-Fi, no signal, no problem. Use Solmari on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere at all. • Free — No paywalls, no subscriptions, no locked features. • On-device intelligence — Uses your iPhone's built-in intelligence where available, with a bundled model so it works on its own. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Chat naturally — Ask anything and get thoughtful answers in seconds. • Write & edit — Draft messages, emails, and posts, then polish tone and grammar. • Code — Get clean, idiomatic code with clear explanations. • Brainstorm — Generate ideas, names, plans, and outlines fast. • Learn — A patient tutor that explains things step by step. • Chat with your documents — Import a text file and ask questions about it, fully on-device. • Voice input — Speak instead of type, transcribed privately on your phone. ONE-TAP PERSONAS Switch between Assistant, Tutor, Coder, Editor, and Brainstorm modes to instantly steer how Solmari responds. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Most AI apps send everything you type to the cloud. Solmari doesn't. The AI lives on your device, so your most personal questions, drafts, and ideas stay yours — by design, not by promise. Note: On first launch, devices without built-in AI download a one-time on-device model so Solmari can run fully offline afterward. We'll notify you when it's ready. Download Solmari and experience AI that's truly yours — private, offline, and free.

Screenshots

NextNote4 screens
Solmari4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solmari at Free against NextNote's $5.99. NextNote's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Solmari is free to download; NextNote costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextNote ships an update every 4 days, Solmari every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
NextNote versus Solmari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextNoteSolmari
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB63 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer劲灿 陈Binaya Dhakal

In-app purchases

None

NextNote

No in-app purchases

None

Solmari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NextNote free?
NextNote costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solmari free?
Solmari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NextNote or Solmari have ads?
Neither NextNote nor Solmari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NextNote or Solmari?
NextNote ships an update every 4 days, and Solmari every 2 months. Most recently, NextNote was updated on October 10, 2026 and Solmari on October 12, 2026.

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