Quirely vs Notes

Organize your PDF library and ask questions with references to your documents. Quirely PDF Library Manager helps researchers, engineers, clinicians and students manage papers, find relevant passages and explore their own collections on Mac, iPad and iPhone. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY • Add folders and monitor them for new PDFs. • Extract and edit titles, authors, venues, years and DOIs. • Complete bibliographic metadata using online reference sources. • Filter by author, title, journal, year, tags and full text. • Open PDFs, reveal files and copy formatted citations. • Use familiar citation styles including MLA, APA, AMA and Chicago. ASK QUESTIONS WITH SOURCES With an active AI subscription, ask questions about material in your library, find supporting passages and compare ideas across documents. Answers include citations and references you can open to inspect the source. Examples: • Find the method used to measure fluorescence in these papers. • Compare the assumptions behind two experimental results. • Locate the passage that defines an equation or reports a sample size. AI can make mistakes. Check the cited passages and original documents, particularly when using results for research, professional or clinical decisions. Quirely is a library and research tool, not a diagnostic service. CONTROL AI DATA SHARING Your PDF library is managed locally. Cloud AI features send extracted PDF text, questions and relevant conversation context through Cloudflare to OpenAI. In version 1.52, these requests require your explicit permission, which you can revoke in Settings. When sharing is enabled with a subscription, Quirely can automatically build missing search embeddings from library text. Optional hosted reranking and GROBID extraction require separate permission for the configured service address. GROBID may receive complete PDF files. Bibliographic metadata lookups and enabled web or local-network features are separate from the cloud AI sharing setting. See the privacy policy for details. SUBSCRIPTIONS Local library organization and filtering are free. Cloud AI chat, AI metadata extraction and embeddings require an active Basic, Pro or Lab subscription. AI usage limits apply. Apple handles purchases; use Restore Purchases to restore an eligible subscription on another device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://quirely.ai/privacy.html Support: https://quirely.ai/support.html

Notes is a private, offline notebook for voice notes, transcripts, reminders, and sketches. Record in any language, dictate on your device, and find any word in seconds. Works fully offline. No account, no ads, no cloud sync. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Voice notes and meeting recordings, transcribed on your device in your chosen language • Dictate notes with on-device speech-to-text, with a full language picker • Scan documents and turn them into text with on-device OCR • Sketches, photos, videos, and any file, including PDFs, spreadsheets, and audio, shown like mail attachments • Rich text, checklists, and bullet or numbered lists REMEMBER TO ACT • Voice reminders, set up from a dedicated screen • Reminders and categories on every note • Turn any note into a real checklist, a clean outline, or a quick summary TALK TO YOUR NOTES Ask in plain language and get answers from what you've written: "What did I decide about the trip?" or "Show me my last 10 entries." Summaries and translations run on your device, and your note content is never sent to a third-party AI service. FIND AND STAY ORGANIZED • Find within a note with the in-editor find bar • Fast search by keyword, date, or media type • Find Duplicate Notes scans your collection and helps you merge near-identical entries • Archive volumes for notes you want out of your daily view but not gone for good MAKE IT YOURS • Backdrops and app-wide themes • Adjustable text size and archive density • Home screen widget with your recent notes • A quick tour on first launch, replayable any time from Settings PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded, synced, or sold. • Lock individual notes with a password or Face ID • Deleted notes go to Trash first, so a stray tap never costs you a note • No account required to use the app Whether you keep a journal, a running list, meeting notes, or a place to think out loud, Notes is built to be entirely, privately yours.