Tana vs Reflect
Tana has pivoted from a supernote outliner to a meeting-memory agent: botless transcription and AI summaries for Zoom/Meet/Teams with action items linked into your knowledge graph; free plan covers 5 meetings/month and 50 AI queries, Pro is $20/month on early-bird annual ($30 month-to-month) (verified Oct 2026). Reflect is a fast, end-to-end-encrypted daily-notes app with backlinks and an AI assistant: a single plan at $10/month ($100/year billed annually, about $8.33/month), no free tier beyond a 14-day trial, with Reflect Open free on Mac (verified Oct 2026). Pick Tana if your notes are mostly things said in meetings; pick Reflect if you want a private daily journaling/second-brain with fast capture and E2E encryption, and you are fine paying with no free tier. No hands-on test was run; no winner declared.
| Decision point | Tana | Reflect |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Not verified | Note-takers wanting local, linked notes |
| Plans and cost | Not verified | No tier amount was verified on the official homepage reviewed on 2026-11-02; the page says the app is free on Mac with a paid subscription on iPhone and iPad, but states no subscription amount. Recheck official pricing before purchase. |
| Limitations | Not verified | The reviewed homepage states the Mac app is free and iOS is a paid subscription, but gives no subscription amount; no amount was adopted. |
Use the same input
You want to build an AI-powered second brain, torn between 'automatic meeting-content capture' and 'fast daily-note capture'.
What a successful result must preserve
Compare by core scenario (meetings vs daily notes), AI nativeness, privacy model (end-to-end encryption or not), free tier and pricing.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Plan prices, allowances and feature claims below come from the two vendors' official pricing and feature pages plus recent third-party pricing reads, re-checked October 2026. We did not run a hands-on test on either tool; no quality winner is declared.
- Tana — Imported listing. Official details have not been verified.
- Reflect — Official homepage ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-02)