Comparison

Polymath vs Reflect Open

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

Head to head
About

Polymath

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Polymath brings your projects, habits, and tasks into one calm dashboard with a liquid‑glass interface and domain accents. iCloud‑only sync, no ads, no trackers. Designed for multi‑hyphenates: manage career, learning, fitness, and creative goals in one system with time blocking, habit streaks, and focused planning. Built for people who work across different domains and need a single place to track priorities, record progress, and stay productive. Key features: • Unified dashboard for projects, habits, and tasks • Time blocks for focused planning • Habit streaks and progress tracking • Domain accents to keep contexts clear • iCloud‑only sync, privacy‑first

About

Reflect Open

Features
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Reflect Open is a local-first note-taking app for daily notes, linked thinking, and private AI over your own files. Start each day in a daily note, capture meetings, ideas, tasks, and journal entries, then connect people and projects with wiki-style links. Reflect builds a personal graph from ordinary Markdown files, with fast search, backlinks, and optional semantic search that runs on-device. Your notes stay yours. Reflect has no account, no telemetry, and no Reflect-hosted cloud service. Notes are stored as plain Markdown in a folder you choose, with a rebuildable local SQLite index beside them. Optional AI chat, transcription, and sync features only run when you connect your own provider or storage, and private notes are blocked from external AI calls. Highlights: - Daily notes first, with quick capture into today. - Wiki links and backlinks instead of folders. - Full-text search and optional on-device semantic search. - Optional bring-your-own-key AI chat over your notes. - Audio memos with optional BYOK transcription. - iCloud Drive or Git-based sync using files you own. - Markdown source of truth for long-term portability. - Keyboard-native, minimal interface built for focus. Terms of Use: https://reflect.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://reflect.app/privacy

Screenshots

Polymath4 screens
Reflect Open3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Polymath at none against Reflect Open's 2. Polymath also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Reflect Open's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Reflect Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Polymath asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Polymath ships an update every 3 weeks, Reflect Open every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Polymath versus Reflect Open: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolymathReflect Open
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDivyansh DivyanshReflect App, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Polymath

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Reflect Open

Subscriptions2
  • Reflect Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Reflect Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Polymath free?
Polymath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reflect Open free?
Reflect Open is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Polymath or Reflect Open have ads?
Neither Polymath nor Reflect Open shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Polymath or Reflect Open?
Polymath ships an update every 3 weeks, and Reflect Open every 11 days. Most recently, Polymath was updated on September 18, 2026 and Reflect Open on September 17, 2026.

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