Comparison

Orbit vs MindWiki

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

Head to head
About

Orbit

Capture and organize your thoughts, ideas, and moments effortlessly. This AI-powered tool creates a calm timeline of your life, offering daily recaps and the ability to search your memories. It integrates with Apple services for seamless capture and organization.

Highlights
  • Capture text, voice, photos, links, and locations
  • AI-powered organization and summarization
  • Daily recap of your day
  • Searchable memory recall
  • Task suggestion from memories
  • Reading list and habit tracking
  • Beautiful shareable memory cards
Features
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Orbit is a second brain for the things you don't want to forget — moments, ideas, voice notes, photos, the link you saved at 2am. Everything lives in one calm timeline that AI quietly organizes for you. No tagging. No folder hierarchy. No notification fatigue. Just capture, and let Orbit find the meaning later. — WHAT YOU GET — • Capture anything in seconds — text, voice memos, photos, links, screenshots, even a place. Apple Intelligence handles the rest: titles, tags, summaries, categorization. • Daily Recap — a one-paragraph reflection of your day, generated each evening from the moments worth revisiting. • Ask Orbit — chat with your own memories. Ask "what did Pamela say last weekend?" or "what was the restaurant in Roatan?" Orbit answers from your captures, never from the cloud. • On This Day, Year in Review, Time Capsules — Orbit surfaces your past at the right moment. • Tasks that find themselves — write "I should call mom tomorrow" anywhere in a memory and Orbit suggests it as a task. Promote what you mean. Ignore what you don't. • Reading list & habit tracking — captures like "I want to read…" or "ran 5k" land in their own surfaces, quietly tracked over time. • Beautiful share cards — turn a memory, a Daily Recap, or a Year in Review into an editorial-quality image, ready for Stories, iMessage, or just keeping. • Privacy by design — On-device AI via Apple Intelligence. Voice transcribed locally. Sleep + steps stay on your phone. iCloud sync runs end-to-end. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared. — DESIGNED FOR APPLE — Lock Screen camera capture · Apple Watch voice notes · Siri Shortcuts · Spotlight search · Home Screen widgets · Safari extension · Share extension · iOS Reminders & Calendar sync · HealthKit sleep + steps in your Daily Recap — PRO — A monthly or annual subscription unlocks unlimited captures and the full AI surfaces. Cancel anytime from Settings → Subscription. — WHY WE BUILT IT — Journaling apps ask too much. Note apps forget everything. The things we want to remember keep slipping away. Orbit is what we wished existed — a calm, native, private place where life can quietly accumulate, and an AI that helps you find what matters without taking over the experience. Welcome to Orbit. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/privacy By downloading Orbit, you agree to the Terms of Use linked above. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period — manage or cancel anytime from iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.

About

MindWiki

This app acts as a personal knowledge base, allowing you to capture, organize, and connect your notes. It enables AI assistants to understand your context by accessing your private vault of plain text information. Syncs seamlessly across devices.

Highlights
  • Quick capture of thoughts, links, and photos
  • Voice capture with transcription
  • AI-powered conversations based on your notes
  • Connect any AI assistant to your vault
  • Wikilinks for connecting pages
  • Full-text and semantic search
  • Plain markdown export
Features
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MindWiki is the external memory and knowledge vault for the AI tools you use. Capture ideas, decisions, documents, voice notes, links, photos, and files in one private, searchable system. Connect compatible AI tools and agents when you want them to retrieve approved context or capture new knowledge. Your AI conversations end. Your knowledge does not. BUILD YOUR AI MEMORY • Capture thoughts instantly from the iPhone app • Speak naturally and turn voice into searchable text • Save links, photos, audio, documents, and other files • Keep ideas, decisions, research, and project context together TALK TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE • Ask MindWiki AI questions grounded in your own pages • Open cited sources directly from an answer • Use Live Conversation for spoken questions and responses • Focus AI on a specific file or folder when you need precision CONNECT AI TO YOUR VAULT MindWiki is not another AI assistant. It is the memory layer that gives compatible AI systems useful context from knowledge you control. • Connect compatible AI tools through a secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint • Let connected tools search and read relevant vault context • Capture new information back into MindWiki during a workflow • Keep access and changes under your control A CONNECTED SECOND BRAIN • Link related pages with [[wikilinks]] and backlinks • Find exact words with full-text search • Find related ideas with semantic search • Organize with folders, properties, and tags • Build a knowledge graph that grows with your thinking ONE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM, EVERYWHERE Capture on iPhone, edit deeply on Mac, and reach the same synced vault from the web. Your knowledge remains available across supported MindWiki experiences instead of being trapped in one conversation or model. OWN YOUR KNOWLEDGE Every MindWiki page is plain markdown. Export your complete vault when you need it and keep control of the knowledge you build over time. The core vault is free. Optional subscriptions unlock additional AI, voice, transcription, automation, and connector capabilities. Build the memory layer for your AI future. Terms of Use (EULA): https://mindwiki.io/terms End User License Agreement: https://mindwiki.io/eula Privacy Policy: https://mindwiki.io/privacy

Screenshots

Orbit4 screens
MindWiki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MindWiki at 5.0 against Orbit's 4.0. MindWiki also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Orbit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and MindWiki sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MindWiki holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbit ships an update every 3 days, MindWiki every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Orbit versus MindWiki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitMindWiki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua Caleb GreenKeaton Williams

Customer experience

Orbit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MindWiki

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • Orbit Pro$2.991 Month
  • Orbit Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Orbit Pro Lifetime$79.99
4 purchases

MindWiki

Subscriptions4
  • MindWiki Pro (Monthly)$12.991 Month
  • MindWiki Power (Monthly)$29.991 Month
  • MindWiki Pro (Yearly)$129.001 Year
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  • MindWiki Power (Yearly)$299.001 Year

Questions

Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindWiki free?
MindWiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Orbit or MindWiki?
MindWiki is rated higher. Orbit averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while MindWiki averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Orbit or MindWiki have ads?
Neither Orbit nor MindWiki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit or MindWiki?
Orbit ships an update every 3 days, and MindWiki every 4 days. Most recently, Orbit was updated on October 28, 2026 and MindWiki on October 31, 2026.

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