Comparison

AnyNotes+ vs Vault Reader

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

Head to head
About

AnyNotes+

This AI-powered note-taking app helps you capture ideas through text, voice, photos, or shared webpages. It then organizes your input into structured notes, summaries, and actionable suggestions. You can further refine ideas with AI chat and group related notes into topics for better organization and sharing.

Highlights
  • Capture notes via text, voice, photos, or webpages
  • AI Inbox for automatic note organization and summarization
  • AI Chat for follow-up questions and idea development
  • Topics for grouping related notes
  • Create shareable outcomes like briefs and task lists
  • Search, tagging, pinning, and archiving for organization
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AnyNotes is an AI note-taking app that helps you capture ideas, organize information, and turn notes into clear outcomes. Ideas find a place. Outcomes take shape. Capture with text, voice, photos, or shared webpages, then let AnyNotes turn scattered input into structured notes, summaries, key takeaways, and next-step suggestions. With AnyNotes, you can: Capture notes in the way that feels natural Write text notes, record voice notes, take photos, or share webpages from other apps. Voice notes support live transcription, while images and webpages are converted into readable text. Let AI Inbox organize what you collect Every new note can flow through AI Inbox, where it is cleaned up into a clearer title, body, summary, result card, and suggested follow-up actions. Keep exploring with AI Chat Once a note has been organized, you can continue the conversation, ask follow-up questions, clarify details, and develop the idea further with AI Chat. Group related notes into Topics Bring multiple notes together under a Topic and keep the bigger picture up to date. AnyNotes helps surface the current view, recent changes, and what to do next. Create shareable outcomes faster Turn organized content into briefs, task lists, polished writing, and shareable images so your notes can move beyond capture and into action. Stay organized as your notes grow Use tags, pinning, archiving, and search to keep important notes easy to find. AnyNotes is great for: Capturing ideas and daily thoughts Organizing meetings, voice notes, and research Tracking projects and product thinking Turning scattered input into results you can share and act on Notes: AI features require an AnyNotes Pro subscription. To use AI features, you also need to provide your own OpenAI API Key or sign in with Codex. Some AI features and sync behavior depend on network access and system services.

About

Vault Reader

Features
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A calm place to read the GitHub notes you already have. Vault Reader connects to any GitHub repository of markdown files, public or private, and renders it on iPhone as a focused, offline-ready reader. Built for the Obsidian vaults, dev notes, and journals that already live in GitHub. THE READER • Sign in with GitHub. Connect one repository on the free tier; every public or private repo you have access to with Vault Reader Pro. • Sync once, read offline. Every page caches on your iPhone and opens without a signal. • Smart incremental sync. SHA-based diffing only re-downloads files that actually changed, keeping API usage low. • Native SwiftUI rendering for headings, lists, tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, task lists, blockquotes, and images. • Book-quiet typography: Iowan Old Style for body, Fraunces for display headings. • Full-text search across every cached file in your vault. FOR OBSIDIAN USERS Pairs with the Obsidian Git plugin. Point Vault Reader at the same repository and it picks up: • [[Wikilinks]], resolved locally. Tap to follow; unresolved links stay visible but disabled so nothing is silently broken. • YAML frontmatter, hidden from the rendered page. Tags surface as small chips above the title. • > TLDR: callouts, highlighted as cards so the gist of a note stands out. ON-DEVICE AI (VAULT READER PRO) A floating action button on every page opens a chat powered by Apple Foundation Models, running entirely on your iPhone. No API keys. No cloud inference. Nothing leaves the device. • Summarize the page you're on. • Ask it to explain a passage in simpler terms. • Ask free-form questions across your whole vault. Answers link back to source pages. READING, YOUR WAY • Two themes on the free tier: Plum Codex (light) and Midnight Vault (dark). • Six themes total with Pro: Plum Codex, Sepia Library, Forest Journal, Terracotta Press, Midnight Vault, and Obsidian Codex. • Four body-text sizes and three line-spacing presets with Pro. Dynamic Type respected throughout. PRIVACY BY CONSTRUCTION • Your GitHub token lives in the iOS Keychain. Minner Labs runs no backend and never sees it. • AI runs on-device via Apple Foundation Models. Prompts and answers never leave your iPhone. • Read-only. Vault Reader cannot create, edit, or delete anything in your repositories. • Your Pro subscription restores automatically across devices and reinstalls. PRICING • Free to download and read. One connected repository, two themes, and the core reader are always free. • Vault Reader Pro unlocks on-device AI, unlimited repositories, and the complete theme and typography library. Available as a monthly or annual subscription (with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan), or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://vaultreader.minnerlabs.com/privacy

Screenshots

AnyNotes+4 screens
Vault Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: AnyNotes+ at weekly against Vault Reader's every 3 weeks. AnyNotes+ also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. AnyNotes+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vault Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AnyNotes+ ships an update weekly, Vault Reader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
AnyNotes+ versus Vault Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnyNotes+Vault Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer冲 姜Minner Labs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AnyNotes+

One-time1
  • Pro$14.99
3 purchases

Vault Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Vault Reader Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Vault Reader Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vault Reader Pro - Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is AnyNotes+ free?
AnyNotes+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vault Reader free?
Vault Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AnyNotes+ or Vault Reader have ads?
Neither AnyNotes+ nor Vault Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AnyNotes+ or Vault Reader?
AnyNotes+ ships an update weekly, and Vault Reader every 3 weeks. Most recently, AnyNotes+ was updated on September 20, 2026 and Vault Reader on September 19, 2026.

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