Local AI Notes vs DearWiki
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Local AI Notes
This note-taking app organizes your thoughts by topic and sets reminders. It offers features like goal setting, task planning, and a smart mode for local language processing. All data is stored and processed on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Automatic note clustering by topic
- Integrated reminders and calendar events
- Goal and habit tracking with sub-goals
- Local AI language model for smart features
- Brain dump for quick note capture
- Face ID lock and encrypted backups
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local ai notes is a note app for your iPhone that thinks along, entirely on device. Write, paste or speak. Notes on the same topic gather into clusters by themselves, "remind me tomorrow at 9 to call the dentist" becomes a reminder, and /ask answers questions from your own notes. NEW: GOALS Set up projects and habits with sub-goals and checklist steps. Notes and tasks that fit sort in automatically. You decide what counts as progress, like three workouts a week or five hours on your thesis. Plan a weekly focus and look back on what you got done. ALSO • Reminders, calendar events and /plan, which fits your open tasks into today's free time • Brain Dump: say everything at once, get separate notes and reminders • Optional Smart Mode with a local language model • Face ID lock, encrypted backups, Siri and Shortcuts • A refined design, in light and dark No account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything runs on your iPhone, and your notes never leave it.
DearWiki
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DearWiki is a local-first notebook and personal wiki for notes, tasks, daily plans, research, and connected ideas. Write in portable Markdown, capture from the share sheet, find backlinks on the knowledge map, organize readable structured views, and export a complete ZIP whenever you want. Attachment OCR runs on the device. No DearWiki account is required. Optional WebDAV sync uses a server you choose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DearWiki at every 8 days against Local AI Notes's every 3 weeks. DearWiki also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Local AI Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, DearWiki every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Local AI Notes | DearWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 266 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Florian Wachter | Pedro Brannum |
In-app purchases
Local AI Notes
No in-app purchases
DearWiki
No in-app purchases
Questions
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