Wisen vs Modrift

Most notes apps are just storage. You write something, it disappears into a list, and you never think about it again. Wisen works differently — it reads what you write and brings the right ideas back at the right moment. Echo finds threads across your notes and turns them into questions worth sitting with. Not generic prompts — specific questions built from what you actually wrote. Sometimes it connects two notes from different weeks and surfaces a pattern you hadn't noticed. Each session feels less like a review and more like continuing a conversation you forgot you started. Pulse delivers a daily brief built entirely from your recent notes. What you've been thinking about, what's still unresolved, what questions are worth returning to. It also drafts LinkedIn posts, emails, and more directly from your notes — your voice, your ideas, not a generic AI output. WisenChat lets you ask anything about your notes. What did you write about this topic last month? What's still unresolved? What decisions are you avoiding? It answers from your actual notes with citations — so you always know where the insight came from. Knowledge Map shows how your notes connect visually. Tap a link to open a cross-note Echo session between two related ideas. The map grows richer the more you write. Spaced repetition tracks which ideas you've genuinely learned and which ones need revisiting — at the block level, using a modified SM-2 algorithm. Mastered content is excluded automatically so you're never drilling what you already know. Everything is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before leaving your phone. AI features use OpenAI — only the content you actively engage with is ever processed, and none of your notes are used to train their models. Import PDFs, scan handwritten notes, drop in images and voice recordings. Works in 16 languages. No account required to start. The longer you use Wisen, the more useful it becomes. Your notes compound into real knowledge instead of disappearing.

Modrift is a lightweight client for quickly opening, reading, and lightly editing files stored in the cloud — right from your iPhone. Not a heavy notes app: just open, read, and tweak, as fast as possible. Key features - Open Markdown files (.md / .txt / .markdown) with clean formatted rendering - Launch straight from Files or any app via "Open in Modrift" - Keep your own working home (iCloud › Modrift): list, create and organise files there - Switch between Home (by place) and Recent (by time) - Toggle between edit and preview with one tap - A formatting toolbar above the keyboard in edit mode — headings, lists, checkboxes, bold and more, one tap each - Automatic saving (no manual save button) - Full-text search, and sorting by date modified or name - Turn to landscape for longer lines — easier on long paragraphs and tables - Japanese / English interface Beyond Markdown - View images (PNG / JPEG / GIF / HEIC / WebP) with pinch to zoom — free - View PDFs with paging and zoom — Modrift Pro (one-time purchase) - View Word documents (.docx) formatted, with headings, lists and tables — Modrift Pro - View Excel workbooks (.xlsx) as tables, with sheet switching — Modrift Pro Markdown, text and images stay free. Only PDF, Word and Excel viewing is part of Modrift Pro — a single one-time purchase, no subscription. These formats are view-only; they cannot be edited. About your home and editing - Files in your home (iCloud › Modrift) are editable in place, and edits sync to iCloud - Files outside your home (Dropbox / Google Drive, or iCloud Drive outside the Modrift folder) are view-only. To edit one, use "Copy to Home" and edit the copy (the original is not written back) - You can choose whether your home lives in iCloud or on this iPhone, in Settings Relationship to the Files app Modrift complements the Files app rather than replacing it. Leave general folder management to Files; Modrift focuses on formatted Markdown viewing, light editing, and tidying its own home folder. The name combines Mo (Mobile / Motion) + drift — the idea of thoughts and files flowing freely on mobile.