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Reflect Update: Performance boost for iPad app
We’ve brought the SQLite re-write to our iPad app, giving it a massive performance increase. It’s now much faster and can handle massive collections of notes.
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Rewriting Reflect in SQLite
In this article, we’ll dive deep into why we made the switch to SQLite, the technical challenges we faced, and how this rewrite has improved performance across our web and mobile applications.
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Reflect Update: Massive speed bump, Sonnet 3.7, and PDF preview
Over the past year, a lot of our time has gone into rewriting the entire frontend codebase to be powered by SQLite. We quietly launched this across iOS, web, and macOS desktop over the last two weeks. Also included in this release is: Claude Sonnet 3.7 support for our AI assistant, an in-line PDF preview that lets you view PDFs within the macOS app, and persistent search results.

Reflect Update: In-line voice transcriber and chat improvements
Reflect has added an in-line voice transcriber that lets you add voice transcriptions anywhere within your notes.
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November Update: OCR Text for PDFs and Images
Reflect now has OCR that extracts text from images and PDFs, which means the information is now indexed in our search and AI chat. We’ve also improved how image resizing and uploading works.
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Reflect Update: Encrypted Assets, lock screen activity and deep links
Today we are announcing a major upgrade to our encryption, improvements to recording iOS audio memos, offline images, deeplink support and image zoom on iOS.

Reflect New Tab
Today we’re sharing with you our answer to that, Reflect New Tab, a free Chrome extension that replaces the default new-tab screen with a beautiful widget dashboard.

Reflect Update: Tasks on iPhone app ✅📲
Earlier this year, we released a tasks manager on Reflect’s desktop and browser app. Today we’re happy to announce we are extending that to our iPhone app.

May Update: GPT-4o Added
Last week, OpenAI announced their new GPT-4o model. We’ve already added it to Reflect!