basalt vs Anima

Write notes with AI suggestions as you type. basalt is a private notebook for drafts, ideas and journal entries, powered by Apple Intelligence on your device. GET HELP WHILE YOU WRITE Suggestions and questions appear alongside your note. Change the assistant’s prompt to ask for the kind of response you want. FIND YOUR NOTES Search your writing and browse short automatic summaries in the note list. Your recently edited notes appear first. KEEP YOUR WRITING LOCAL Notes are stored on your device. No account is required, and your writing is not sent to a developer-run AI service. AI features require a compatible device with Apple Intelligence enabled and its on-device model available. Availability depends on your device, language and region. AI suggestions may be inaccurate. Create two notes for free. basalt Pro unlocks unlimited notes with a weekly or yearly subscription. Prices and any eligible introductory offers are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in App Store account settings. Introductory offers are available only to eligible subscribers. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hekec.notion.site/terms-privacy-policy-290a809cee65801882d9d13fc40c24b7

Private voice notes, powered by Apple Intelligence. Speak whatever's on your mind and Anima notices the patterns you keep returning to. The inner dialogue you didn't realise you were having, surfaced and given back to you. Everything happens on your device. Your data never leaves it. There are no servers, and no cloud you don't already own. SPEAK Tap to record. Anima transcribes through Apple's on-device Speech models. No audio ever leaves your phone unless you choose to back it up to your own iCloud. The microphone surface is ambient, not anxious: a breathing waveform, a quiet stop button, and you. STRUCTURE Each recording becomes a structured note: a two-sentence summary, the ideas you raised, the tasks you committed to, and the open questions you didn't resolve. Apple's Foundation Models handle the synthesis on-device. Your words, given back to you in shape. NOTICE The more you speak, the more Anima notices. The Constellation tab shows your tags as a graph: clusters of recurring themes, threads that connect across days. The Open Questions tab surfaces what you've been asking but haven't answered. Day Recap appears once a day with one thought and one question to sit with. None of it gamified. None of it telling you to do better. STAY YOURS Anima never sends your audio, transcripts, or text to anyone. The only network connection it makes, and only if you turn it on, is to your own private CloudKit container, where backups of your notes and recordings stay accessible to no one but you. If you want it to be a journal, it's a journal. If you want it to be a sketchpad, it's a sketchpad. If you want it to be quiet most days and noticing-loud on others, it's that too. ANIMA STYLE Five questions during onboarding tune how Anima talks back to you: warmly or critically, in detail or briefly, suggesting gaps or just reflecting. You can change any of it later in Settings. The voice that emerges is yours, not ours. Made for thinking out loud. Built for staying private. FREE AND PREMIUM Capture, transcription, summary, library, search, Day Recap, and Living Summary are free, with no time limit. Premium adds the deeper noticing surfaces (Constellation, Convo, Threads, and the Ideas + Tasks tabs in every note) as a monthly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a weekly subscription. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Use is governed by Apple's standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Requires iPhone with Apple Intelligence and iOS 26 or later.