Comparison

Goldfish Notes vs Wisen

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

Head to head
About

Goldfish Notes

Capture and organize your thoughts effortlessly with AI-powered note-taking. This app transforms messy ideas into structured notes, automatically selecting the best format and highlighting key information. It also offers seamless integration with Obsidian for centralized note management.

Highlights
  • AI-powered thought capture
  • Automatic note formatting
  • Extracts key information
  • Obsidian integration
  • Intuitive interface
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Goldfish is the most intuitive way of capturing your fleeting thoughts the go. It transforms your messy thoughts into clear, structured notes using AI—automatically choosing the best format and keeping only what matters. It also integrates seamlessly with Obsidian, making it easy to manage all your notes in one spot.

About

Wisen

This app intelligently analyzes your notes to surface forgotten ideas, patterns, and unresolved questions. It offers daily digests, AI-powered chat for querying your notes, and visual knowledge mapping. Learn and retain information effectively through spaced repetition.

Highlights
  • AI-powered idea surfacing
  • Daily note digests
  • AI chat for note queries
  • Visual knowledge mapping
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • PDF, image, and voice import
Features
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Most notes apps are just storage. You write something, it disappears into a list, and you never think about it again. Wisen works differently — it reads what you write and brings the right ideas back at the right moment. Echo finds threads across your notes and turns them into questions worth sitting with. Not generic prompts — specific questions built from what you actually wrote. Sometimes it connects two notes from different weeks and surfaces a pattern you hadn't noticed. Each session feels less like a review and more like continuing a conversation you forgot you started. Pulse delivers a daily brief built entirely from your recent notes. What you've been thinking about, what's still unresolved, what questions are worth returning to. It also drafts LinkedIn posts, emails, and more directly from your notes — your voice, your ideas, not a generic AI output. WisenChat lets you ask anything about your notes. What did you write about this topic last month? What's still unresolved? What decisions are you avoiding? It answers from your actual notes with citations — so you always know where the insight came from. Knowledge Map shows how your notes connect visually. Tap a link to open a cross-note Echo session between two related ideas. The map grows richer the more you write. Spaced repetition tracks which ideas you've genuinely learned and which ones need revisiting — at the block level, using a modified SM-2 algorithm. Mastered content is excluded automatically so you're never drilling what you already know. Everything is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before leaving your phone. AI features use OpenAI — only the content you actively engage with is ever processed, and none of your notes are used to train their models. Import PDFs, scan handwritten notes, drop in images and voice recordings. Works in 16 languages. No account required to start. The longer you use Wisen, the more useful it becomes. Your notes compound into real knowledge instead of disappearing.

Screenshots

Goldfish Notes4 screens
Wisen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Goldfish Notes at 5.0 against Wisen's 3.0. Goldfish Notes also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 18.0). Wisen's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Goldfish Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Goldfish Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, Wisen every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Goldfish Notes versus Wisen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoldfish NotesWisen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKa Man Carmen LiDARIA LENSKAJA

Customer experience

Goldfish Notes

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

Wisen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Goldfish Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Wisen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Goldfish Notes free?
Goldfish Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wisen free?
Wisen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Goldfish Notes or Wisen?
Goldfish Notes is rated higher. Goldfish Notes averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Wisen averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Goldfish Notes or Wisen have ads?
Neither Goldfish Notes nor Wisen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Goldfish Notes or Wisen?
Goldfish Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wisen every 6 days. Most recently, Goldfish Notes was updated on October 24, 2026 and Wisen on October 23, 2026.

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