Mote vs Reteum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mote
Quickly capture and access essential notes directly from your device's lock screen. Organize thoughts, set reminders, and keep your mind clear with automatic saving and optional private mode.
- Lock screen notes
- Automatic saving
- Scheduled reminders
- Private mode
- Note history
- Note sharing
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Mote keeps the note you need right now close at hand. Capture a thought in seconds, edit it anytime, and move finished notes to History. Notes save automatically on your device. Mote Plus adds more contexts for different parts of life, Scheduled Notes, and Private Mode. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or unlock Plus with a one-time Lifetime purchase. Schedule a note for later with an optional reminder. On supported iPhones, you can choose to show it on the Lock Screen. Private Mode requires Face ID or your device passcode to open Mote. Mote needs no account and has no note sync. Device backups may include your notes. Share a note whenever you choose. Terms of Use (Mote): https://wenka93.github.io/mote-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://wenka93.github.io/mote-legal/privacy.html Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Reteum
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Reteum works the way your memory does. Your senses take things in. A thought comes back to you out of nowhere. You ask yourself what time this afternoon's meeting is. Before you fall asleep, the day runs past once more. Reteum does the same four things for what you write, say, photograph and save. TAKE IN • Save anything from one box: photos, videos, links, files (PDFs and documents), a few typed words or your voice. • Photos and videos keep the time and place they were taken. • Catch a thought in a second from a widget, the Lock Screen, Control Center or Siri: "Add a thought to Reteum". RECALL • Old notes come back on their own, like memories that surface, as often as you choose: a few a day, more, or none. • Swipe right to keep one, left to clear it. Notes you no longer need go before they pile up, so what you keep stays worth finding. SEARCH • Search the way you remember: "Seattle last month", "beach", "when is the dentist?". • An on-device AI model searches by meaning, so you don't need the exact words. • Find photos and videos by what's in them. • The words inside PDFs and documents count in search, and link previews show what you saved. CONNECT • The Atlas sorts everything by subject on its own, and links the thoughts that belong together. • Open a subject to see how its thoughts connect. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Both AI models run on the phone. No account, no cloud AI, no analytics, no ads. • Keep your thoughts in iCloud if you like: they survive a lost phone and move to your next one, end-to-end encrypted, so only your devices can read them. • Export everything as one zip file, with a Markdown copy you can read anywhere. Free for your first 100 thoughts, with everything included. Reteum Pro adds unlimited thoughts and import: $24.99 a year. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://reteum.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mote at every 3 days against Reteum's weekly. Mote also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 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
Both are free to download. Mote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Reteum sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mote ships an update every 3 days, Reteum weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mote | Reteum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 182 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Borisov | 智文 石 |
In-app purchases
Mote
- Mote Plus Monthly$0.991 Month
- Mote Plus Yearly$6.991 Year
- Mote Plus Lifetime$9.99
Reteum
- Reteum Pro$24.991 Year









