Pachinko vs Notes + Reminders.
Pachinko is tasks and notes in one app. It brings in the news and sites you read, and does the jobs you give it.
You jot a note down. Pachinko takes it from there.
Pachinko
|   Notes + Reminders | |
|---|---|---|
| tasks + notes | ||
| Tasks and notes in one app | ✓ | ✕ |
| Tasks, projects, and areas | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rich notes with images | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repeating tasks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calendar events beside your tasks | ✓ | ✕ |
| Apple Reminders beside your tasks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Note: a global shortcut to type a note from anywhere | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Capture: a global shortcut that saves the selected text or current page | ✓ | no shortcut |
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✕ |
| Share sheet on Mac and iPhone | ✓ | ✓ |
| views + organization | ||
| Card view with image previews | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status view | nine statuses, one-key filters | ✕ |
| Tags | ✕ | ✓ |
| Start dates | ✓ | ✕ |
| Deadlines | ✓ | ✓ |
| Upcoming view | ✓ | ✓ |
| Themes | 20 color schemes | ✕ |
| ai | ||
| AI chat over your notes and tasks | ✓ | ✕ |
| Functions: write an instruction once, run it forever | ✓ | ✕ |
| Feeds: scheduled imports saved as notes | ✓ | ✕ |
| Ready-made Powerups | 35 ready-made | ✕ |
| Semantic search | ✓ | ✕ |
| AI account | your Claude or ChatGPT account | ChatGPT only |
| MCP server for outside AI tools | built into the app | ✕ |
| platforms + privacy | ||
| Platforms | macOS, iOS, iPadOS | Apple devices + iCloud.com |
| Sync | iCloud | iCloud |
| End-to-end encryption option | with Advanced Data Protection | with Advanced Data Protection |
| AppleScript | ✓ | ✓ |
| price | ||
| Price | free app · Pro AI $9/mo or $229 lifetime | free with every Apple device |
| Free tier | full task manager and notetaking, free | ✓ |
choosing pachinko over notes + reminders
Planning anything with the built-ins means a list in Reminders and a folder in Notes, with nothing joining them. In Pachinko a project is one place: the tasks, the notes, the images, and your calendar next to the day's tasks.
Feeds do the rounds for you: any RSS feed, YouTube transcripts, news topics, SEC filings, government feeds, weather, PDFs, and even custom feeds you build. They show up as notes on whatever schedule you pick.
You explain a job once and Pachinko does it to every new note: the news story gets a note about what it means for what you own, the filing gets a note about what changed.
You can ask Pachinko questions about your own notes and tasks. Search finds a note from a half-remembered phrase. Pachinko uses your Claude or ChatGPT account for all of it.
The Notes + Reminders column comes from their published pricing and documentation, compiled August 2026.