Capacities vs Mem vs Reflect vs Tana Outliner
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Capacities
A note-taking app that stores ideas as linked, typed objects
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Mem
Your AI chief of staff
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Reflect
Daily notes and backlinks on local Markdown files, with AI on your own...
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Tana Outliner
Supertag outliner that turns notes into a queryable knowledge graph
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic plan free: unlimited spaces, objects and types, sync, offline use, import and export, 5 GB of uploads then 100 MB a month | Free: 25 messages and 25 new notes a month, task tracking on 25 notes, 15 open tasks and projects, 3 hours of Voice Mode | Reflect Open for Mac is free and MIT-licensed; AI needs your own provider API key, billed by that provider | Free: 500 AI credits, up to 3 workspaces, 0.5 GB file storage, supertags, live searches, meeting transcription up to 100 minutes |
| Paid from | $11.99/month for Pro ($119.88 billed yearly) | $9/month (Mem Plus); Pro $29, Pro 2× $49, up to Pro 20× at $199/month | $9.99/month (Reflect Pro for iPhone and iPad, or $99/year, US App Store) | $8/month billed yearly (Plus), $10 billed monthly; Pro $14 yearly or $18 monthly |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2022 | 2021 | — | 2020 |
| Maker | — | Mem Labs, Inc. | — | — |
| Verdict | Capacities is a thoughtful personal knowledge tool with an unusually generous free plan, full offline use, EU data storage and exports to Markdown, CSV and other formats. The typed-object model suits researchers, writers... |
Mem is a capture-first notes app that now doubles as a proactive assistant: Mem Agent detects tasks in your notes and reminds you before they slip, and the Heads Up panel surfaces related notes and past meetings as you w... |
Reflect Open is a bold rebuild: the fast, minimal daily-notes app is now free and open source on the Mac, with notes kept as plain Markdown files that any editor, script or coding agent can read. AI works through your ow... |
Tana Outliner is the original Tana under a new name: an outliner where supertags turn any bullet into a structured object and live searches assemble always-current views across your notes. For people who think in network... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.