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Brainy vs Pinwork

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Brainy compared with Pinwork
DetailBrainy logo BrainyPinwork logo Pinwork
What it doesAutonomous Chief of Staff for engineering leads and founders. Lives in Telegram and Slack. Private to-do app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch with no account, no servers, and no tracking
StageStartup Startup
FoundedNot given 2026
Based inNot given PL
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingStarter: Free forever. Pro: $9/month. Chief: $35/month. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no credit card to start. Monthly $4.99 with 7-day free trial, Yearly $34.99 with 7-day free trial, Lifetime $79.99 one-time purchase. All plans cover iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
Key features
  • Text, voice, and photo capture in Slack and Telegram
  • Whisper-v3 voice transcription with 99.8% accuracy
  • Three-stage follow-up cadence: morning digest, nudge, and escalation
  • Bidirectional sync with Obsidian, Notion, and Markdown vaults
  • Meeting CoS that joins calls and converts notes to tasks
  • Brain scans across Notion, Obsidian, and Google Sheets
  • Approval inbox for all proposed vault writes
  • Brain Health score tracking open loop hygiene and clarity
  • Deduplication of repeating commitments across threads
  • Natural language task capture from plain text
  • Apple Pencil handwriting to text conversion
  • Voice dictation for task entry
  • Siri Shortcuts and AppleScript automation
  • Apple Calendar integration with two-way sync
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Focus session timer with Live Activity controls
  • Apple Watch app with complications
  • Local storage with private iCloud sync
  • Offline functionality with local task storage
What makes it different
  • Does not train its own AI model on user tasks
  • Approval-based vault sync prevents silent data overwrites
  • No account required—uses your existing Apple ID for sync
  • One purchase covers all Apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
  • Private by design with no Pinwork servers or task tracking
  • Native macOS app, not a port or web wrapper
  • Deep Apple ecosystem integration with 11 Shortcuts actions and 20 AppleScript commands
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check8 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)02
Citation Flow (Majestic)021
Referring domains (Majestic)021

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