Reflect vs Shortwave

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A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think, now with native AI integration.

Automate your email with agentic AI

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Description

Reflect is a beautifully minimalist, open-source, and AI-native note-taking application designed to function as a digital second brain. Built with end-to-end encryption, it mirrors human thought patterns by associating notes through automatic backlinks. Reflect natively integrates models like Claude Sonnet 3.7, GPT-4, and Whisper to assist with summarizing links, editing custom prompts, and audio transcribing. It also offers friction-free integrations with Kindle highlights, Google Calendar, Outlook, and web browsers via Safari and Chrome extensions.

Shortwave is an AI-powered email client designed to manage, organize, search, and automate your inbox. Utilizing advanced LLMs, it offers conversational AI assistance, custom AI filters, context-aware writing in your voice, scheduling integration, email bundle triage, and secure, private team collaboration.

Key features

• End-to-end encryption
• Associated notes via backlinks
• Native AI assistant (Claude Sonnet 3.7, GPT-4, Gemini)
• Whisper speech-to-text audio transcribing
• Kindle highlights synchronization
• Google Calendar and Outlook integrations
• Chrome and Safari web extensions
• Offline status indicator
• MCP server support for coding agents
• SQLite-powered fast frontend codebase
• Markdown-first storage
• Advanced semantic search and filtering

• AI Assistant for conversational email management and delegation
• AI Search to query your email using plain natural language
• Custom AI Filters written in plain English to automatically label, star, or archive
• Inbox Splits to divide your inbox into custom, focused tabs
• Email Bundles to group promotions, updates, or custom labels as single items
• Delivery Schedules to control when emails arrive in your inbox
• Private Team Comments and mentions to discuss emails directly in the app
• Shared Live Threads and read statuses to coordinate with teammates
• Voice Learning AI to draft replies that sound like your unique writing style
• Keyboard Shortcuts to process email workflows entirely without a mouse
• Tasklet Integration to connect to 3,000+ apps and automate workflows
• Google Workspace and Advanced Protection Program support

Pros

• Note contents are completely secured via local end-to-end encryption, preventing even the company from reading them.
• Natively integrates top-tier AI models including GPT-4, Whisper, Gemini, and Claude Sonnet 3.7.
• Core code is open-source, markdown-first, and works seamlessly with local SQLite-powered performance optimizations.
• Integrates directly with Google Calendar and Outlook to effortlessly import and coordinate meeting entries.
• Provides dedicated browser extensions for Safari and Chrome to clip web links and sync Kindle libraries.
• Includes a powerful semantic search engine that indexes both text and OCRed image content within PDFs.
• Equipped with an Model Context Protocol (MCP) server allowing users to search and edit notes directly from coding agents.
• Features a robust custom prompt template editor in your preferences to manage tailored AI assistant prompts.

• Available across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
• Employs third-party security reviews and undergoes annual CASA Tier 2 verification audits.
• Saves time by grouping mailing lists, newsletters, and promotional emails into bundled rows.
• Adapts and learns the user's specific voice and style based on sent emails.
• Allows team members to privately comment on live email threads and collaborate without forwarding.
• Guarantees that customer data is never used to train third-party LLMs.
• Enables delivery schedules so you can control exactly when non-urgent emails enter your inbox.
• Provides a clear 14-day full refund policy for paid subscriptions.

Cons

• No permanent free tier is offered, requiring a paid subscription once the trial period expires.
• No native Android application is listed in their available downloads.
• Security compliance certifications (such as SOC2 or ISO) are not explicitly mentioned.
• The iPad application is currently classified as a Beta version available only via Apple TestFlight.
• Certain performance highlights, like inline PDF previews, are currently reserved for the macOS desktop application.

• Longer conversations inside the AI assistant process entire chat history, rapidly consuming daily quota limits.
• Refunds are strictly unavailable once the initial 14-day payment period expires.
• The Business paid plan limits users to roughly 150-300 standard AI requests per day.
• Premium tiers can be expensive, with the Max tier scaling up to $120 per user.
• Compliance options like SOC 2 Type II or GDPR are not self-serve and require manually contacting support.

Pricing plans

• One planUSD10/month
  • • Native AI integration using GPT-4 and Whisper
  • • Backlinks to associate notes
  • • End-to-end encrypted note contents
  • • Google Calendar and Outlook integrations

• BusinessUSD30/month
  • • Standard intelligence
  • • AI autocomplete, summaries & attachment analysis
  • • Read statuses, link tracking, snippets & more
  • • Full standard search history
• PremierUSD45/month
  • • Everything in Business, plus Advanced intelligence
  • • 2x more usage
  • • 100 threads per AI search
  • • 2x context tokens
• MaxUSD120/month
  • • Everything in Premier, plus Expert intelligence
  • • 6x more usage
  • • 150 threads per AI search
  • • 3x context tokens

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