Comparison

Reflect Open vs Sol

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

Head to head
About

Reflect Open

Capture daily notes, meeting details, and journal entries with wiki-style linking for connected thinking. This app builds a personal knowledge graph from your Markdown files, offering fast search and on-device AI capabilities without compromising privacy.

Highlights
  • Daily notes and quick capture
  • Wiki links and backlinks
  • On-device semantic search
  • Private AI chat over your notes
  • Audio memos with transcription
  • iCloud Drive or Git sync
  • Markdown as source of truth
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

About

Sol

Features
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Sol is a daily notes app designed for the way your days actually unfold. Instead of making you organize everything into folders, notebooks, or complicated systems, Sol gives each day its own space. Capture quick thoughts, meeting notes, tasks, links, images, ideas, and anything else you want to remember, right when it happens. Your notes naturally stay connected to the day they belong to, creating a clear and useful record of your life and work. CAPTURE EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Write down a quick thought or create a detailed, structured note. Sol is flexible enough for both. Use it for: • Daily notes and personal logs • Meeting notes and client work • Tasks and reminders • Ideas and inspiration • Links, images, and useful information • Recipes, lists, and plans ORGANIZED BY DAY There is no need to decide where every note belongs. Sol automatically keeps your entries organized by date, so you can focus on capturing what matters instead of managing a filing system. FAST BY DESIGN Sol is built to feel immediate. Create a new entry, start typing, and move on with your day. The interface stays out of your way while still giving you the tools you need to structure your notes. FIND ANYTHING Search across your notes and use hashtags to connect related entries across different days. Turn scattered daily thoughts into an archive that becomes more valuable over time. MORE THAN JUST NOTES Mark entries as tasks, set reminders, add images and links, and organize your day without switching between multiple apps. Sol brings your notes, tasks, and memories together in one calm, chronological space. YOUR DAYS, REMEMBERED Small notes are easy to forget, but together they tell the story of what you worked on, thought about, discovered, and accomplished. Sol helps you capture your days as they happen and return to them whenever you need. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Reflect Open4 screens
Sol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Reflect Open at every 10 days against Sol's every 5 weeks. Reflect Open also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Reflect Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Sol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reflect Open ships an update every 10 days, Sol every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Reflect Open versus Sol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReflect OpenSol
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReflect App, LLCAdam Kovacs

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Reflect Open

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

Sol

Subscriptions2
  • Sol Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Sol Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sol Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Reflect Open free?
Reflect Open is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sol free?
Sol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reflect Open or Sol have ads?
Neither Reflect Open nor Sol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reflect Open or Sol?
Reflect Open ships an update every 10 days, and Sol every 5 weeks. Most recently, Reflect Open was updated on November 8, 2026 and Sol on October 31, 2026.

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