Comparison

Buzz vs Reflect Open

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

Head to head
About

Buzz

Collaborate with both humans and AI agents in shared workspaces. Every interaction is logged for a transparent audit trail, ensuring a unified identity model for all participants. Agents can actively participate in channels, not just communicate.

Highlights
  • Human and AI agent collaboration
  • Shared rooms and channels
  • Signed event log with audit trail
  • Agents acting in workspace
  • Organized channels and threads
  • Image and media discussion
Features
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Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms. Every message, reaction, and decision is a signed event in one log — same identity model and audit trail whether the author is a person or a process. Add an agent to a channel the same way you add a teammate. Agents have their own keys, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail — scoped by identity, not permission flags. • Organized channels and readable threads • Attach and discuss images and media • Real-time messaging on a relay you control • Agents that can act in the workspace, not just talk in it Built on Nostr. Self-hostable. The relay is yours.

About

Reflect Open

Features
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Reflect Open is a local-first note-taking app for daily notes, linked thinking, and private AI over your own files. Start each day in a daily note, capture meetings, ideas, tasks, and journal entries, then connect people and projects with wiki-style links. Reflect builds a personal graph from ordinary Markdown files, with fast search, backlinks, and optional semantic search that runs on-device. Your notes stay yours. Reflect has no account, no telemetry, and no Reflect-hosted cloud service. Notes are stored as plain Markdown in a folder you choose, with a rebuildable local SQLite index beside them. Optional AI chat, transcription, and sync features only run when you connect your own provider or storage, and private notes are blocked from external AI calls. Highlights: - Daily notes first, with quick capture into today. - Wiki links and backlinks instead of folders. - Full-text search and optional on-device semantic search. - Optional bring-your-own-key AI chat over your notes. - Audio memos with optional BYOK transcription. - iCloud Drive or Git-based sync using files you own. - Markdown source of truth for long-term portability. - Keyboard-native, minimal interface built for focus. Terms of Use: https://reflect.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://reflect.app/privacy

Screenshots

Buzz4 screens
Reflect Open3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Buzz at none against Reflect Open's 2. Buzz also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Reflect Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Buzz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buzz ships an update every 4 days, Reflect Open weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Buzz versus Reflect Open: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuzzReflect Open
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (61 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB37 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBlock, Inc.Reflect App, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Buzz

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Reflect Open

Subscriptions2
  • Reflect Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Reflect Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Buzz free?
Buzz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reflect Open free?
Reflect Open is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Buzz or Reflect Open have ads?
Neither Buzz nor Reflect Open shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buzz or Reflect Open?
Buzz ships an update every 4 days, and Reflect Open weekly. Most recently, Buzz was updated on October 22, 2026 and Reflect Open on October 9, 2026.

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