Notes Expert vs Lumen

Notes Expert transforms how you capture and organize ideas. Record your thoughts, let AI enhance your notes, and keep everything synced securely across all your devices. VOICE RECORDING & TRANSCRIPTION • Record voice memos directly in your notes • On-device recordings -> text keeps your data private • Works offline — no internet required • Attach multiple recordings to any note AI-POWERED FEATURES • Smart Summarization — get concise summaries instantly • Note Enhancement — improve structure and clarity • Text Enhancement — fix grammar and polish selected text • Action item extraction — never miss a to-do RICH TEXT EDITING • Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough • Multiple heading levels and text colors • Bullet points, numbered lists, and checklists • Add images and attachments to any note SMART ORGANIZATION • Create folders and smart folders with custom rules • Tag notes for easy filtering • Pin important notes to the top • Powerful search across all your content PRIVACY FIRST • End-to-end encrypted iCloud sync • On-device transcription — your voice stays on your device • No tracking or personal data collection • Your notes are yours alone SEAMLESS SYNC • Automatic iCloud backup and sync • Access your notes on all Apple devices • Works offline with automatic sync when reconnected Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Subscriptions will automatically renew and abide by Apple Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Lumen is a browser with a memory. Most browsers forget the second you close a tab. Lumen does not. As you read, it quietly builds a personal knowledge base from the pages you actually engage with, and then lets you ask questions about any of it in plain English, answered by an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Nothing you read, nothing you ask, and nothing Lumen learns about you ever leaves your phone. WHAT IT DOES Lumen reads along with you. It distinguishes between pages you genuinely read and pages you opened and swiped away, and it extracts the meaningful content from the ones that stuck. That content gets summarized, embedded, and organized into a searchable knowledge base, all on-device. Later, when you want to find something, you do not have to dig through history or remember which tab it was in. You just ask: "What did I read about sourdough starters last week?" "Summarize that article about the new M-series chips." "What were the main arguments in that piece I read on Tuesday?" Every answer cites the pages it came from, so you can jump straight back to the source. AUTO-ORGANIZED Your reading sorts itself into a clean hierarchy: Topics, Websites, and Pages. Each level carries its own AI-generated summary, so you can scan what you have been learning at a glance. No tagging, no folders to maintain. Lumen handles it in the background. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Lumen has no server. There is quite literally nothing to send. On-device LLM: a quantized Llama 3.2 model runs locally through Apple's MLX framework. Local SQLite storage: your reading history, summaries, and embeddings never leave the device. Built-in privacy: tracker blocking, third-party cookie blocking, and fingerprint resistance. Secure: HTTPS-only by default, with mixed-content blocking. No strings attached: no accounts, no sync, no telemetry, no ads. The AI weights download once on first launch (~700 MB). After that, everything works fully offline: browsing, reading, asking, answering. BUILT FOR iOS Lumen is written from scratch in Swift and SwiftUI, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple's own frameworks wherever it can: NLEmbedding for semantic search, WKWebView for browsing, SQLite with FTS5 for full-text queries, and MLX Swift for on-device inference. Zero third-party trackers. Zero external services. WHO IT'S FOR While most browsers treat the web as a feed to scroll past, Lumen treats it as a library worth keeping. If you read a lot online and constantly think "I know I saw something about this recently but I cannot find it again," Lumen is for you. Researchers, students, writers, developers, and lifelong learners. You do not need to change how you browse. Browse normally, and Lumen takes care of the rest. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. iPhone with Apple Silicon recommended for the fastest on-device AI performance.