Recall vs Second Brain Map

Recall is a personal memory app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. Speak, type, or snap a moment — Recall files it away with the place and time it happened. CAPTURE HOWEVER YOU WANT • Voice — tap to record, see your words transcribed live on screen • Text — type a quick note when you can't talk • Photo — snap with the camera or pick from your library TAGGED WITH PLACE AND TIME Every memory carries the location, address, and the moment it happened. Browse a Map view to see where you've been thinking. When you add an old photo, Recall offers to use the photo's date and original GPS instead of your current spot — so memories from the past land in the right place on the map. HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI AND APPLE WATCH Say "Hey Siri, save to Recall" from iPhone, Apple Watch, or HomePod — your iPhone files the memory away even while the app is asleep. Override the vault inline: "Hey Siri, save to Recall in TravelLog." Capture from your Watch by voice or tap, and it syncs back to iPhone the moment it reconnects. MULTIPLE VAULTS, YOUR FOLDERS Keep work, travel, and ideas in separate vaults. Vaults are just folders — yours to organize. Link any folder from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or your Mac's iCloud Drive, and your memories land where you want them. YOUR FILES, NOT OURS Every memory is a plain Markdown file with YAML frontmatter — open it in Obsidian, Apple Notes, any text editor, or just Finder. There's no proprietary database, no lock-in, and your vault folder IS the export. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY Recall has no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no accounts, and no servers we operate. Voice transcription uses Apple's on-device speech engine. Location tags only your own memories. Files live in iCloud or any folder you choose — nothing is sent to us. Available on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. Free, no in-app purchases.

Brain Map is a free, private second brain for your iPhone. Capture a thought in one tap, by typing, talking, snapping a photo, scanning a document or sharing a link, and Brain Map gives it a title, tags it, files it into the right project and connects it to what you already know. Find anything by meaning, see how your ideas connect on a living map, and ask your notes questions. All the AI runs on your iPhone: no account, no subscription, no limits. CAPTURE ANYTHING IN ONE TAP • A capture button on every tab: tap to write, touch and hold for voice, photo or link (or pick a capture bar or tab in Settings) • Voice notes of any length, transcribed on your iPhone • Scan documents into searchable PDFs; snap a whiteboard or a receipt and its text, labels and QR codes become searchable • Attach PDFs and files: their text is searchable too • Share links and files from Safari or any app • Capture from widgets, Control Center, the Action button and Siri WRITE YOUR WAY • Headings, lists and checklists you tick right in the note, with Apple Writing Tools • Templates for meetings, journals and project briefs, or your own, from the / menu • Link notes, projects and days with @ and see which notes link back MEETING NOTES • Record a meeting of up to three hours, even with the screen locked, with a Live Activity • A timestamped transcript and moments you mark; tap a time to hear that part again • With Apple Intelligence: a summary, decisions and action items that become tasks IT ORGANISES ITSELF • Every note gets a title, tags and a short summary, made on your iPhone • Notes it isn't sure about wait in the Inbox for a one-tap confirm • Undo anything with one tap; pin, filter by tag, set reminders • "From your past" brings back notes you'd forgotten PROJECTS THAT FILL THEMSELVES • A project is just a name: add an emoji and a due date if you like • New notes file themselves into the right project; when Brain Map isn't sure, it suggests and you decide • It spots to-dos in your notes ("call the bank on Friday") with their due dates • Tick off tasks, watch the progress, and show due dates in a separate Brain Map calendar SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY • Share a project or a note with a link; choose who can edit and who can only view • iCloud sync keeps your notes up to date on every iPhone you use SEE HOW YOUR IDEAS CONNECT • A living map of your notes, clustered by topic, with your projects as hubs • Brain Map suggests links between related notes; keep the good ones, dismiss the rest FIND ANYTHING BY MEANING • Search for what you meant, not the exact words: "that pricing idea" finds "try a free tier with a tip jar" • Your notes in iPhone search (Spotlight), if you want them there • Works across English, Russian and Ukrainian notes ASK YOUR NOTES • Type or say a question and get the notes that answer it • With Apple Intelligence, a written answer that cites its notes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics • All the AI runs on your iPhone: speech, text in photos and scans, tags, links, search and answers • Your notes stay on your device and, if you turn on sync, in your own private iCloud. There is no Brain Map server, and we never see your notes • Lock any note with Face ID: it's encrypted on your iPhone and in iCloud, and stays out of search, widgets and Spotlight • Export everything as Markdown, or a note or a whole project as a PDF FREE, FOR REAL • No subscription, no trial, no daily caps, no limits on notes or projects • In English, Russian and Ukrainian Brain Map works offline. Sync and sharing need iCloud; summaries and written answers need an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Everything else works on any iPhone with iOS 26.