Napkin
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Napkin, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Napkin's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| All features - paid monthly | — | All features |
| All features - paid yearly | — | All features |
| Monthly | — | Subscription required; price not stated on the opened maker pages |
| Yearly | — | Subscription required; price not stated on the opened maker pages |
The facts
Each one read from Napkin's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI privacy
- The privacy notice says idea content sent to Anthropic for flow curation and anonymized content sent to Cohere for semantic search are not used to train their models.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI reflection
- Napkin says its personal AI understands a user's ideas and suggests topics of interest.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Capture
- Users can add ideas by sharing text from other apps, scanning from a book, dictating, or typing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker describes adding text from other apps through sharing, but the opened pages do not name any third-party integrations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Language support
- Napkin is tuned for English and also understands related languages such as Spanish, French, and German.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Not a writing tool
- Napkin says it lacks the advanced editing and structuring features of a writing tool.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Organization
- Napkin says it sorts ideas around topics without requiring users to manage tags or folders.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy controls
- The privacy notice says users can disable AI-assisted features in the app settings to stop new content from being sent to AI providers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Napkin is an app for collecting good ideas and keeping them in focus.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security and hosting
- The maker says its servers are in Europe and its databases are fully encrypted; its privacy notice specifies encryption in transit and at rest.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker says Napkin's founders will personally take care of users, and provides [email protected] for privacy questions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Text focus
- The maker says Napkin currently focuses on text because its AI works best at understanding patterns in text ideas.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Free trial
- The maker invites visitors to start a free trial but does not state its duration on the opened page.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Switzerlandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- iPhone app
- The App Store lists Napkin Ideas as an iPhone app and says a subscription is required to use it.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- ioschecked 21 Sep 2026
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