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Capacities vs Reflect

Capacities is an object-based notes studio where every note is a typed thing — a person, a book, a meeting; Reflect is a fast, minimal networked notes app with end-to-end encryption and a built-in AI assistant. Here’s how they compare on pricing, platforms, linking, search, capture and collaboration — and how to decide between them.

What is Capacities?

Capacities organizes your knowledge by what things are. Instead of files in folders, you create objects — people, books, meetings, projects, quotes — each with its own properties and views, connected through backlinks and daily notes. Browsing by object type (every book you’ve noted, every person you’ve met) falls out of the design for free, and a calendar-centric daily view ties it to your day.

It’s a polished, cloud-based app on web, desktop and mobile, with a generous free core plan; Pro (about $10/month billed annually) adds the AI assistant, calendar sync and advanced queries. In July 2026 it shipped a developer API with OAuth, opening it up to integrations. One deliberate omission to know about: there is no collaboration, and the team has said it isn’t planned — Capacities is intentionally a personal tool.

What is Reflect?

Reflect is deliberately simple: daily notes, backlinks, a calendar and contacts integration, and speed as a feature. Rather than growing into a do-everything workspace, it polishes a small set of ideas — capture your day, link your thinking, find it instantly — and wraps them in one of the cleaner interfaces in the category. Notes are end-to-end encrypted, unusual for a cloud tool.

An AI palette (GPT-based) drafts, summarizes and answers questions over your notes, and voice memos are transcribed with Whisper. Capture comes via a browser extension and Kindle sync. It’s a single plan at $10/month billed annually (14-day trial, no free tier), on web, macOS and iOS — Windows and Android users work through the browser.

Capacities vs Reflect at a glance

Pricing and features as of mid-2026 — check each product’s site for current details.

Where Capacities shines

• Object types with properties give structure without the rigidity of databases or the chaos of free-form notes.
• One of the most polished, beautiful interfaces in the category, consistent across web, desktop and mobile.
• A genuinely useful free plan, with Pro at a mid-pack price.
• Daily notes plus calendar integration make it a natural journal-of-record.

Worth knowing: No collaboration — explicitly not supported and not planned; sharing is read-only page links. Cloud-first and proprietary, with no local-first storage or end-to-end encryption. Power features like queries sit behind Pro, and the object model can feel like ceremony for quick, messy capture.

Where Reflect shines

• Genuinely fast and distraction-free; the tool disappears behind the writing.
• End-to-end encryption on a cloud notes app is rare.
• Calendar and contacts integration make it a natural meeting-notes and journaling tool.
• Built-in AI assistant and Whisper voice transcription without plugin fiddling.

Worth knowing: No free plan, and one fixed $10/month price. Single-player by design — no collaboration or publishing to speak of. No Windows or Android apps, and the minimalism means no databases, queries or heavy structure.

Which should you choose?

Choose Capacities if:

• You think in entities — people, books, meetings — and want your tool to as well.
• Interface polish and aesthetics genuinely affect whether you’ll keep using a tool.
• You’re strictly solo and don’t need sharing or teamwork.

Choose Reflect if:

• You want the least possible friction between a thought and a saved, linked note.
• End-to-end encryption matters but you still want a polished cloud app.
• Your workflow revolves around your calendar and daily notes.

A third option: Dexi

If what you actually want is one searchable place for notes, bookmarks, newsletters and RSS — with tags, @mentions and [[wiki links]] that organize themselves as you write, semantic search that finds ideas even when the words don’t match, and an MCP server so Claude and other AI assistants can work with your notes directly — take a look at Dexi. It’s free for up to 1,000 notes, with no app to install.

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