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Fast encrypted networked notes
Reflect ranks #18 of 22 in Personal knowledge management, with an Alt Score of 65. It is proprietary, sold by subscription from $10/month and available on Web, macOS, iOS and Windows. 11 of 14 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Knowledge workers, researchers, and students who take notes daily and want a private, connected system for organizing and recalling their thinking over time.
An end-to-end encrypted note-taking app where your daily notes automatically link to related ideas, building a searchable graph over time. It captures input from a browser extension, voice transcription, Kindle highlights, and calendar events, and syncs in real time across desktop, mobile, and offline. Built-in AI (GPT-4-based) can turn scattered notes into outlines, summarize meetings, and answer questions grounded in your own notes.
You write a note for each day, linking people, topics, and ideas as backlinks as you go; Reflect surfaces related past notes automatically as your graph grows. Content clipped from the web, voice memos, or calendar events lands in your notes and syncs across all your devices instantly.
Where Reflect stands out
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Feature comparison
How Reflect compares with its alternatives, feature by feature.
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Every fact and feature listed for Reflect is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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Pricing model Subscription verified 2026-07-12
$10/month (billed annually)
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Starts at $10/month verified 2026-07-12
$10/month (billed annually)
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-12
Reflect App LLC, 222 West Ave Apt #1805, Austin, TX 78701, USA
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Platforms Web, macOS, iOS, Windows verified 2026-07-12
We've added forward and back buttons on the desktop, web and iPad apps.
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Status active verified 2026-07-12
We've expanded MCP functionality to let you edit your notes through these coding agents as well.
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Markdown support Yes verified 2026-07-12
Reflect users can also export their notes in both HTML and Markdown.
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Backlinks / graph view Yes verified 2026-07-12
Form a graph of ideas with backlinked notes
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Templates Yes verified 2026-07-12
Inside your preferences, we've added a new tab for Prompt Templates. From here you can create, copy, edit and delete any of your custom AI prompt templates.
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Real-time collaboration Partial verified 2026-07-12
A shared, interactive meeting note creates a unified source of truth for the entire team.
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Web clipper Yes verified 2026-07-12
Install our Chrome extension to clip web content and sync your Kindle library.
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Sync between devices (native) Yes verified 2026-07-12
We're everywhere, mobile or desktop, online or offline. Everything is synced in real-time.
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Local-first storage No verified 2026-07-12
the contents of your notes are end-to-end encrypted so no plaintext ever reaches our servers
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Plugins / extensions Partial verified 2026-07-12
any highlights, bookmarks, and clippings you make in Readwise will automatically flow into Reflect.
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Daily notes Yes verified 2026-07-12
Any notes made in your daily-notes are automatically associated with a date.
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Task management built in Partial verified 2026-07-12
On our mobile iOS app, tapping the checkbox button on the editor menu will toggle between checklists and tasks.
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Publish to web Yes verified 2026-07-12
Publishing - Share anything you write with one click
https://reflect.app/#features
FAQ
Yes. Craft, Trilium Notes and Logseq have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
AppFlowy, Trilium Notes and Logseq — every license claim links its source.