Comparison

Aether vs Wikilayer

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

Head to head
About

Aether

Save any link and let AI transform it into structured, searchable knowledge. Automatically extracts, transcribes, analyzes, and summarizes content from videos, articles, and more into a personal vault.

Highlights
  • Instant link capture from any app
  • AI transcription of YouTube videos
  • AI analysis of Instagram images with OCR
  • AI-generated content summaries
  • Semantic search by meaning
  • Automatic content organization
  • Bilingual support (English/Turkish)
Features
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Aether turns every link you save into structured knowledge. Drop any URL — YouTube videos, Instagram posts, articles, research papers, blog posts — and AI automatically extracts, transcribes, analyzes, and summarizes the content into your personal searchable vault. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Share a link from any app (YouTube, Instagram, Safari, Chrome) 2. AI extracts content — transcribes videos, OCRs images, scrapes articles 3. Get rich AI-generated summaries with key insights and entities 4. Search your entire vault by meaning, not just keywords KEY FEATURES: • Instant Capture — Share from any app via iOS Share Extension • YouTube Transcription — Gemini AI transcribes video audio • Instagram Vision — AI analyzes carousel images with OCR • AI Summaries — Claude generates structured insights • Semantic Search — Find anything by meaning using vector embeddings • Auto-Labels — Content auto-organized by source (YouTube, Instagram, GitHub, etc.) • Bilingual — Full English and Turkish language support • Dark Mode — Beautiful obsidian dark interface SUPPORTED SOURCES: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit, GitHub, Medium, Wikipedia, arXiv, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and any web page. Your knowledge, always searchable, always yours.

About

Wikilayer

Features
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Wikilayer is a wiki that an AI assistant can read and edit on your behalf. You and your agent work on the same tree. The agent writes through MCP tools: it adds a node, rewrites one, moves a subtree, and reads back by outline instead of loading everything into its context. You read the result here, as ordinary pages. Every block has an address of its own. Rename it, rewrite it, move it under another parent, and links to it still land. Pages that lead to a block are listed under it, and nobody maintains that list by hand. History is kept per node, so a change to one paragraph is a change to one node, not to a whole document. WHAT PEOPLE KEEP HERE Personal notes: a second brain the agent reads selectively instead of holding a whole vault in context. Adding is a message in chat, not an app switch. Project memory: long-running context the agent writes and you audit. Hierarchy and full-text search across titles and bodies, without a separate vector store. Team workspace: decisions, context and meeting digests, written by the team and refactored by the agent. Public reference: guides, handbooks, fan wikis. Readers arrive from search and never touch the editing surface. VISIBILITY A wiki can be open to everyone, private to a team, or run on your own machine. Public wikis are crawlable the day you write them: server-rendered pages, Open Graph, sitemap, structured data, and addresses that survive a rename. WHAT IT IS NOT Not a block editor: bodies are plain markdown edited through MCP, not click-to-edit blocks, and the tree is hierarchical nodes rather than a relational document store. Not a real-time co-editor: each edit lands atomically, and conflicts resolve at write time rather than by merging keystrokes. Not an approval workflow: edits land on the live tree, and the audit trail is a snapshot of each node as it stood before the change. Bodies are markdown and the tools are MCP. Both are public formats, so a wiki reads out as plain documents whenever you want it somewhere else.

Screenshots

Aether4 screens
Wikilayer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wikilayer at daily against Aether's weekly. Aether's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aether ships an update weekly, Wikilayer daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Aether versus Wikilayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAetherWikilayer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCritical Dynamics OUMaxim Oransky

In-app purchases

None

Aether

No in-app purchases

None

Wikilayer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aether free?
Aether is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wikilayer free?
Wikilayer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aether or Wikilayer have ads?
Neither Aether nor Wikilayer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aether or Wikilayer?
Aether ships an update weekly, and Wikilayer daily. Most recently, Aether was updated on October 31, 2026 and Wikilayer on November 10, 2026.

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