Comparison

Local AI Notes vs inkept

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

inkept

Features
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Notes and flashcards in one quiet place. Write what you learn, turn what matters into cards, and see each one again right before you'd forget it. WRITE Markdown that tidies itself as you type. LaTeX formulas, code, pictures, checklists and tables, plus real Typst diagrams drawn right on your device. CONNECT Wiki links, tags and folders. A living graph of how your ideas link up, a board of pages, a timeline of what you wrote when. REMEMBER Select a passage, make it a card. FSRS, a modern spaced-repetition algorithm, picks the moment to show it again. You decide how much to remember. KEEP Everything lives as plain files in a folder you choose: iCloud Drive, your device, or the Obsidian vault you already have. Pick the same folder on iPhone, iPad and Mac and carry on where you left off. No account. No ads. No tracking. Free and open source.

Screenshots

Local AI Notes4 screens
inkept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: inkept at 18.0 against Local AI Notes's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Local AI Notes versus inkept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocal AI Notesinkept
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian WachterAliaksei Krauchanka

In-app purchases

None

Local AI Notes

No in-app purchases

None

inkept

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Local AI Notes free?
Local AI Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is inkept free?
inkept is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Local AI Notes or inkept have ads?
Neither Local AI Notes nor inkept shows ads.

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