Wivlo vs Igneous
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wivlo
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Wivlo is an AI-powered knowledge workspace for capturing ideas, connecting notes, and turning what you know into useful work. CAPTURE WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR FLOW • Write focused notes with a clean, distraction-free editor • Record voice memos and turn speech into transcripts and summaries • Add images, references, tags, and structured blocks • Find recent notes quickly from Home and Calendar CONNECT YOUR KNOWLEDGE • Link related notes with References • Create Branches to develop ideas without losing context • Organize connected notes into Projects • Search across notes, projects, tags, references, and conversations WORK WITH WIVLO AI • Ask questions grounded in your own notes and projects • Summarize, rewrite, organize, and expand your writing • Attach multiple notes and projects to AI conversations • Save useful AI results as notes and continue building on them • Let background AI analysis make important knowledge easier to rediscover MOVE BETWEEN MOBILE AND WEB Keep your notes and projects synchronized so your knowledge is ready wherever you work. Whether you are researching a topic, planning a project, writing, or building a personal knowledge system, Wivlo helps your ideas stay connected and easy to revisit.
Igneous
This app offers a gesture-driven approach to note-taking, allowing users to manage their Markdown files with one-handed navigation. It supports various cloud storage options and integrates features like voice notes, live Markdown rendering, and drawing capabilities.
- One-thumb gesture navigation
- Plain Markdown file storage
- iCloud Drive and Files integration
- Live Markdown rendering
- Voice note recording and transcription
- Drawing and sketching canvases
- Mac and offline synchronization
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Igneous is a notes app you drive with one thumb. On iPhone there's no toolbar at the top of the screen: everything lives in one dock at the bottom, and it moves the way Safari's tab bar does. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose — on your device, in iCloud Drive, or anywhere Files can reach — so they open in any other app, today and in twenty years. No account, no database, no analytics. GET ANYWHERE WITHOUT REACHING • Tap the pill in the dock to search every note, like tapping Safari's address bar. • Swipe it sideways to move between open notes, and keep going past the last one for a new note. • Swipe up on it and your open notes spread out as cards. • Swipe in from the left edge for your notebook, and from the right for the Inspector. • Pull down on a note to find a word in it. Hold any button for more. • While you read, the dock folds into a slim pill out of the way. Liquid Glass on iOS 26; solid with Reduce Transparency. • On iPad: a floating notebook pane, a real tab bar, and as many windows as Stage Manager will hold. CAPTURE THE MOMENT • Press the Action Button, a Lock Screen widget or a Control Center tile and you're typing in a new note — even from a closed app. • Record a voice note from the Action Button, Siri, the app icon or the note you're in. Igneous transcribes it on your device while you talk, shows the words on the Lock Screen, and saves the audio and transcript into today's note or a note of its own. • Copy a voice note — recording and transcript together — and paste it into Messages, Mail or another note. WRITE IN MARKDOWN, SEE IT BEAUTIFULLY • A live editor that renders headings, lists, tasks, tables, callouts, highlights, maths and diagrams as you type, while the file stays plain text. • A formatting bar just above the keyboard, and Writing Tools that keep your links and structure intact. • Wikilinks, embeds, backlinks, tags and a graph of how your notes connect. • Search every note instantly, including handwriting on your canvases. • Daily notes, a calendar, tasks gathered from every note, templates and a board view. DRAW WHEN WORDS WON'T DO • Canvases for sketches and diagrams, with Apple Pencil on iPad, beside cards and links to your notes. • Opens JSON Canvas and Excalidraw drawings. WORKS WITH YOUR MAC — AND OFFLINE • Keep a notebook in iCloud Drive ▸ Igneous and it's on all your devices. • Or pair with Igneous on your Mac over your own network: the phone keeps a full offline copy and sends its edits when it's back. Changes to different lines are combined, and if you both changed the same words, both versions are kept. Drawings merge shape by shape. • Nothing ever passes through a server of ours — there isn't one. SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND WIDGETS • Actions for new notes, today's note, tasks, search and voice notes, ready for Shortcuts and Siri. • Home Screen widgets with buttons you choose, Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Focus filters and Live Activities. YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES Igneous reads Obsidian-flavoured Markdown as written and never adds anything you didn't ask for. Point it at the vault you already keep.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wivlo at none against Igneous's 3. Wivlo also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Igneous sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wivlo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wivlo ships an update every 4 days, Igneous every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Wivlo | Igneous |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YOHAN KIM | JASON RANDALL DORFMAN |
In-app purchases
Wivlo
No in-app purchases
Igneous
- Small Tip$9.99
- Medium Tip$24.99
- Large Tip$49.99









