# Reflect Open — AI Compare Ninja

> Local Markdown notes in an open-source app with your own AI key.

## Overview
- **Category:** Productivity (Meetings, notes & planning)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active Mac beta and iPhone TestFlight. New development is in Reflect Open while the old Reflect app remains available.
- **Paid from:** direkt beim gewählten Provider / Usage (AI usage)
- **Free access:** Free plan (Mac app is free and open source. Own AI key and provider charges required.)
- **Website:** https://reflect.app/blog/reflect-open
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/reflect-open

## What it does
- Store local Markdown notes, tasks, and backlinks on your Mac without mandatory cloud sync
- AI chat, rewriting, summarising, and translation using your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter)
- Sync via iCloud or Git/GitHub of your own choice
- API keys are managed in the operating system keychain
- Open-source code reviewable; Mac beta free to use without a credit card

## In brief
Reflect Open is an open-source Mac app for local Markdown notes with backlinks and tasks that needs no proprietary cloud and handles AI capabilities such as chat, rewriting, summarising, and translation exclusively through the user's own API key.

The Mac app is free and available in Stable or Beta versions. Sync uses iCloud or Git by choice; AI and transcription use your own provider accounts. The classic Reflect cloud app remains a different, still-available product.


## Limits
Reflect Open is a different app from the still-available Reflect cloud app. The Mac client is free; AI and transcription costs are charged by the provider you choose. Notes can be explicitly marked private, which blocks them from AI and other services that read note content. This does not mean all notes automatically stay local during ordinary AI use.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mac app (Stable/Beta) | free | Beta and Open Source | Local Markdown notes, search, tasks, and backlinks; AI chat, rewriting, summarising, and translation; Own model key required; iCloud or Git/GitHub sync |
| iPhone TestFlight | free | Beta | Limited TestFlight places; Planned to become paid later; Price and timing undecided |
| AI usage | direkt beim gewählten Provider | Usage | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter; No Reflect-included tokens; Keys stored in the operating-system keychain |
| Reflect Cloud (separate product) | $10 | month, billed annually | One plan, one price on reflect.app/home#pricing; billed annually; 14-day trial mentioned |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://reflect.app/blog/reflect-open
- https://reflect.app/home#pricing

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/reflect-open*