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About Napkin
Napkin collects short ideas and quotes you want to keep. You can add them by sharing text from other apps, scanning a book page, dictating or typing, and the app then shows them back in a personal flow for short moments of reflection.
An AI feature analyses your collected ideas and suggests topics you seem interested in. It suits readers who save highlights and want them resurfaced rather than filed away.
Strengths
- Several capture methods including book scanning and dictation
- Resurfaces saved ideas instead of burying them
- AI suggestions based on your collection
Limitations
- iPhone only according to the site
- Aimed at short ideas, not long notes
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumPricing is not stated on the homepage; see the App Store listing.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Readers who collect quotes and want them resurfaced
- Categories
- Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Napkin
Compare allSoftware that can replace Napkin for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Glasp
A browser extension and mobile app for highlighting text on web pages and PDFs and collecting notes.
Glasp collects highlights from web pages and PDFs through browser extensions and iOS and Android apps, built around a social hosted service rather than private resurfacing.
Drafts
An Apple-platform app for capturing text quickly and sending it elsewhere with actions.
Drafts opens straight to a new page for quick text capture on Mac and iPhone, with dictation and actions, but does not resurface saved ideas.
Apple Notes
Apple's built-in notes app with sync, sketches, and text recognition.
Apple Notes is free and preinstalled on Apple devices with sync and OCR search of scanned images, but offers no resurfacing or AI suggestions.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Day One
A journaling app for writing daily entries with photos, video, audio and drawings, synced across devices.
RemNote
Note-taking app that pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
Diigo
A web annotation and bookmarking service with a browser extension for highlighting, tagging and saving pages.
Karakeep
Save bookmarks, notes and documents in a self-hosted library.
Highlights
A PDF reader for Mac, iPad and iPhone that turns annotations into exportable notes.
