Comparison

MagicWiki vs Nota

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

Head to head
About

MagicWiki

Build a personal knowledge network with this note-taking app. Connect ideas through wiki-style linking, organize with smart tags, and access content easily with powerful search. Supports markdown, images, and a distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Wiki-style linking
  • Smart tag suggestions
  • Daily journal with calendar
  • Markdown and image support
  • Powerful search functionality
  • Offline data storage
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Create and organize your thoughts, ideas, and knowledge in a beautiful and interconnected personal wiki. MagicWiki is a powerful yet simple note-taking app that helps you build your own knowledge network. Key Features: • Wiki-style Linking: Connect your thoughts naturally by linking between articles • Smart Tags: Organize articles with tags and get intelligent tag suggestions based on content • Favorites: Keep important articles easily accessible • Daily Journal: Built-in journaling with a calendar view • Markdown Support: Format your content with simple markdown syntax • Image Support: Add and resize images within your articles • Powerful Search: Find articles by title, content, or tags • Clean Interface: Distraction-free writing and reading experience • Dark Mode Support: Comfortable viewing day and night Perfect for: • Personal knowledge management • Project documentation • Research notes • Daily journaling • Writing and brainstorming • Building your second brain MagicWiki works completely offline and your data stays on your device. No account or subscription required. iCloud sync available. Start building your personal knowledge base today with MagicWiki.

About

Nota

Capture thoughts through typing, voice, sketches, or photos. AI assistance helps organize and refine your ideas. Offers local saving and advanced features with an optional Pro subscription.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note organization
  • Voice-to-text transcription
  • Sketching and drawing tools
  • OCR for scanned documents
  • Cross-device sync (Pro)
  • Customizable AI actions (Pro)
Features
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Nota is not just a place to store notes. It is a place where ideas begin, grow, and become useful. A thought can arrive while you are walking, working, reading, commuting, training, talking, or half asleep. Nota helps you catch it before it disappears, then gives that thought somewhere to develop. VOICE FIRST. INTELLIGENCE WHEN YOU NEED IT. At the bottom-right of Nota is one simple button. Tap it to record and transcribe a thought. Press and hold it to bring intelligence into the note dashboard. Press and swipe up to turn the circular button into Nota Voice, a live thinking partner you can speak with in real time. The interface stays simple. The intelligence appears when you ask for it. FROM THOUGHT TO PAPER Speak naturally and let Nota turn your voice into text. Capture an idea, memory, meeting thought, observation, reminder, sentence, question, or something you do not want to lose. Use your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch when pulling out a pad of paper and a pen would mean losing the moment. Never lose the idea just because your hands were busy. MEET NOTA VOICE Nota Voice is more than voice transcription. It is a conversation with your ideas. Use it as a brainstorming partner, sounding board, thought partner, collaborator, or simply a place to think out loud. Talk through a book idea, a difficult email, a business problem, a personal decision, a blog, a message to someone you care about, or an unfinished thought you cannot quite articulate yet. Nota Voice can help you explore the idea in real time, then turn the conversation into something tangible when you are finished. Ask for: • Book passages and outlines • Emails and messages • Blog posts and articles • Social posts • Plans, lists, summaries, and follow-ups • Multiple versions of the same idea • Structured notes built from the conversation Your conversation does not have to disappear when you stop talking. It can become the next version of your work. NOTA ASSIST Some ideas should not disappear into an archive. Nota Assist looks across your note universe for unfinished ideas, follow-ups, recurring patterns, and things that may deserve another look. It can remind you about a thought you forgot, a project you left unfinished, or something Nota thinks is worth revisiting. Your notes become more useful as your history grows. YOUR NOTE UNIVERSE Nota still includes the tools you expect from a powerful notes app, but they stay out of the way until you need them. • Rich text writing and formatting • Sketching, drawing, highlighting, circling, and visual thinking • Camera scanning and OCR • Voice recording and audio playback • Apple Watch capture and transcription • Tags, pinning, sorting, and search • Shared notes and simple collaboration by link • Import from Apple Notes • Import DOCX, PDF, Markdown, TXT, and RTF files • Markdown export for local AI and second-brain workflows • Cross-device sync on supported plans • Recently Deleted recovery • Themes, icons, and accent colors THOUGHTS INTO THINGS A note does not have to begin as a document. It can begin as a sentence spoken into your watch. A paragraph dictated on a walk. A line scanned from a book. A sketch. A conversation with Nota Voice. A shared idea between two people. Then it can grow. A seed becomes a tree, and that tree grows branches. Branches become bodies of work. Or maybe the old idea becomes the firewood for the next one. Nota is built for that process. The goal is not to just collect more notes. The goal is to think better, remember more of what matters, develop stronger ideas, and turn those ideas into something useful. Catch thoughts. Shape ideas. Make them real. Terms of Service: https://nota.talk/terms Privacy Policy: https://nota.talk/privacy Support: https://nota.talk/support Standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MagicWiki4 screens
Nota4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nota at Free against MagicWiki's $4.99. MagicWiki's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

Nota is free to download; MagicWiki costs $4.99 up front. Nota sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. MagicWiki asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MagicWiki against 5.0 for Nota. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MagicWiki ships an update every 2 weeks, Nota every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MagicWiki versus Nota: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagicWikiNota
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManicgrin Media LtdHue Network, Inc.

Customer experience

MagicWiki

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nota

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MagicWiki

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Nota

Subscriptions2
  • Nota Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Nota Pro Annually14 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is MagicWiki free?
MagicWiki costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nota free?
Nota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MagicWiki or Nota?
MagicWiki and Nota are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do MagicWiki or Nota have ads?
Neither MagicWiki nor Nota shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MagicWiki or Nota?
MagicWiki ships an update every 2 weeks, and Nota every 6 weeks. Most recently, MagicWiki was updated on October 8, 2026 and Nota on October 22, 2026.

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