Comparison

Strayfiles vs Foqos

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

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About

Strayfiles

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Strayfiles brings all your Markdown files together in one place without moving them. Point to any folder on your device and Strayfiles indexes your notes, docs, and files instantly. ORGANIZE WITHOUT MIGRATING Your files stay exactly where they are. No vault, no restructuring. Strayfiles reads from any folder you choose and builds a unified note tree across all your directories. WRITE IN MARKDOWN Full Markdown editor with syntax highlighting and keyboard shortcuts. Switch to a rendered preview to see your formatting, tables, code blocks, and more come to life. SEARCH EVERYTHING Full-text search across all your Markdown files by title, content, or tags. Find any note instantly no matter where it lives on your filesystem. SMART WORKSPACES Create virtual folders that group notes by project or topic without touching your filesystem. Filter by workspace to focus on what matters. TAG AND FILTER Add color-coded tags to organize notes your way. Filter by tag to find exactly what you need in seconds. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Keep your notes in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Stray Cloud. End-to-end encrypted so your data stays private. BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS Mirror files like CLAUDE.md across multiple projects. Get pinged when AI coding agents finish tasks. Give AI assistants direct access to your notes via MCP. TEAMS (PRO) Collaborate on shared workspaces with your team in real time. Everyone sees the same notes, always up to date. KEY FEATURES - Aggregate notes from any folder - Raw Markdown and WYSIWYG editing - Full-text search across all files - Smart workspaces and color-coded tags - Cross-device sync with end-to-end encryption - File mirrors for developer workflows - AI agent notifications (Pings) - Team collaboration (Pro) Terms of Use: https://strayfiles.com/terms

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Foqos

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An on-device AI workspace for your ideas. Foqos brings powerful language models directly to your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Chat with your notes, understand images, improve your writing and connect ideas—with local AI processing on your device. Download your models once and use local AI offline. Web research and iCloud syncing require an internet connection. • Ask your notes Have a conversation with your notes and documents. Find answers, summarize information and discover connections across your library. • Give your AI vision Ask questions about images, describe what is visible and extract text from photos—all with on-device image understanding. • Write with your local language model Develop ideas, rewrite passages, suggest headings and turn rough notes into structured summaries. Your AI tools live alongside your writing. • Turn ideas into visual thinking Generate mind maps from your notes, explore your knowledge map and organize related ideas on Canvas. • Transcribe on device Turn recordings and imported audio into text with Talk Tiny or Talk Base. Choose automatic language detection or select the spoken language. Supported languages include English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. • Listen and follow along Read your notes aloud, follow highlighted words during playback and export spoken audio. • A complete writing workspace Work with Markdown, tables, LaTeX equations and PlantUML diagrams. Import PDFs, paste images and documents, sketch across multiple pages and sync your library with iCloud. Choose white, dark or sepia and personalize your fonts. Start free with 20 AI actions, 3 speech generations and 5 minutes of audio-file transcription daily. Live transcription includes 60 seconds every 2 hours. Basic notes, drawing, model downloads and saved results remain free. Foqos Pro unlocks unlimited AI actions, transcription and speech generation, plus advanced exports, portable backups and unlimited folders and images per note. Pro subscriptions renew monthly or yearly. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://foqos.netlify.app/#privacy Terms of Service: https://foqos.netlify.app/#terms foqos isn't just a note-taking app. It’s a tool for better thinking.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strayfiles at none against Foqos's 1. Foqos's advantage is device support and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Foqos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strayfiles asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Strayfiles versus Foqos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrayfilesFoqos
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoberto FebusJeffrey Asante

In-app purchases

None

Strayfiles

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Foqos

One-time1
  • Foqos Pro (Lifetime)$14.99

Questions

Is Strayfiles free?
Strayfiles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Foqos free?
Foqos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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