Reckon vs Vanta

A record of how you decide, more than a decision journal or decision tracker. Most decisions feel resolved the moment you make them. Reckon keeps the prediction, the confidence, and the reasoning. Over time you can see how your judgment holds up. CALIBRATION, FINALLY SOMETHING YOU CAN SEE Every decision in Reckon starts with what you think will happen and how sure you are. Over months, that turns into a record you can read: confidence over time, predicted vs. observed, the difference between the calls you make well and the ones you only think you do. INSIGHTS THAT LIVE IN THE LONG TERM After fifty decisions, the patterns appear. After a hundred, they're hard to ignore. Reckon surfaces them: where confidence overshoots outcomes, where it undershoots, which domains your judgment is sharp in, and which ones still need work. RESOLUTION, THEN A SECOND LOOK When a decision resolves, you log what happened, whether the call was correct, and how satisfied you are with it. Thirty to sixty days later, Reckon asks again: would you make this call again? The two answers are rarely the same. CHECK-INS FOR THE MIDDLE OF A DECISION Between making a call and finding out how it went, things change. Check-ins capture new information — tagged positive or negative — and update your confidence. The middle of a decision is where the information arrives, and Reckon keeps it in the record. RESOLVED DECISIONS, AT A GLANCE Browse the calls you've made. Filter by domain, by satisfaction, by whether your follow-up still agrees with you. The library you wish you'd been keeping for years. ONE LIST, BY REVIEW DATE Every open decision, organized by when you said you'd come back to it. No notifications competing for your attention. Only the calls awaiting your next look. A TIMELINE PER DECISION Each decision has its own confidence chart: check-ins as points, tagged shifts as annotations. Watch the moment your thinking changed, and what changed it. BREAKDOWNS BY DOMAIN Career, finances, health, personal. Each domain has its own calibration curve. See them separately, then compare. Reckon is iPhone and iPad, one-time purchase. Buy it once and it's on every device you sign in with. Your data syncs over iCloud. Nothing of yours sits on a server we run. No subscription. No account. Less journaling, more calibration.

Vanta is a private Markdown notes app for iPhone with AI that runs entirely on your phone, and real GTD built in. Your notes stay as plain Markdown you own. Start with a local vault in seconds: no account, no servers, nothing uploaded. ON-DEVICE AI • Turn a messy, rambled note into clean Markdown • "Clarify with AI" sorts your whole GTD inbox into Next Actions, Waiting For, Someday, Done, or Trash • Clean up dictation, summarize, and suggest tags • Powered by Apple's on-device models, so it works offline and nothing ever leaves your phone GETTING THINGS DONE, BUILT IN • Capture to your Inbox in a tap, by typing or voice, even from the Share Sheet • Process your inbox to zero, by hand or with AI • Next Actions by @context, plus Waiting For, Someday, and Projects • A weekly review that surfaces stalled projects and what you're waiting on • Inbox and Next Actions pinned to the top of your vault A REAL MARKDOWN NOTES APP • Folders, favorites, and instant full-text search, all offline • Syntax-highlighted code, callouts, tables, images, SVG, and tasks • Tap [[wikilinks]] to jump between notes, and see backlinks • Light and true-black dark themes YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Start on-device with no account • Sync across your devices with iCloud, or your own private GitHub repo • Obsidian-compatible: open the same vault on your Mac, and favorites sync with Obsidian bookmarks • No subscription. No analytics. No tracking. Vanta works great as a standalone local notes app, and plugs into your existing Obsidian or Markdown vault whenever you want. On-device AI features require an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence.