Valutorio vs Amplenote: Task engine vs vault (2026)

Amplenote's funnel takes what you jot down and turns it into tasks, then scores those tasks so the ordering is decided for you, then puts them on a calendar. Vault notes give you encryption on the sensitive ones and note publishing exists on the higher tiers. If the failure you are trying to fix is that your meeting notes quietly become forgotten obligations, this is aimed exactly at that failure.

Valutorio has no task scoring, no calendar, and no scheduling. You can write checkboxes in markdown and search for them, and that is the extent of it. Anyone whose real problem is task triage rather than knowledge retrieval should choose Amplenote and skip the rest of this comparison.

Amplenote stores notes in its own cloud and exports markdown when you ask. Sync is cloud-native and offline editing works. The canonical copy of every note lives on Alloy.dev's servers, which is what makes the calendar integration and publishing possible in the first place.

A Valutorio vault is a folder on your disk. Nothing is imported, nothing is converted, and every file in it is markdown that any editor can open while Valutorio is closed. Valutorio Sync, an optional subscription, moves changes between your Macs in the background at 0.56 s a cycle, encrypted in transit and at rest. Three-tier automatic resolution keeps concurrent edits safe: a three-way merge first, then markdown-aware keep-both blocks, then keep-both artifacts. No conflict marker is ever written into a note, no conflicted-copy files appear beside it, and an interrupted sync repairs itself.

Amplenote is built on web technology and does not feel like a native desktop app, which reviewers say and which is the honest cost of covering macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and the browser from one codebase. Its interface is also described as less intuitive than rivals, and its community is small.

Valutorio is Swift and AppKit over a Rust engine with no Electron and no JavaScript runtime. Measured on a 2,000-file, 55 MB vault on Apple silicon: cold index 1.07 s, full-text search 1.8 to 6.6 ms, wikilink autocomplete under 0.5 ms, backlink lookup 0.65 µs, graph snapshot 10 ms, keystroke latency 0.1 ms in a 1 MB note. A 300 MB document loads in under a second. That is what the macOS-only restriction is in exchange for.

Amplenote has wikilinks, backlinks, and a graph, so it is not thin on knowledge features. The difference is emphasis. Its structure exists to feed the task engine, and the search and navigation layer is not what the product is optimised around.

Valutorio spends its whole budget there. Wikilinks with autocomplete, backlinks that carry the sentence around the link, a force-directed graph you can filter, tags with counts, a quick switcher, a source and preview editor, and a minimap for long documents. When retrieval at 2,000 notes is the thing that keeps failing you, this is where the difference shows up.

Amplenote's free Personal plan is genuinely usable, then Pro is $5.84 a month, Unlimited $10 a month, and Founder $20 a month on annual billing. At Pro that is roughly $70 a year, every year, and the task engine and publishing are what you are paying for. Valutorio is a paid Mac App Store app whose price is not set yet, with Valutorio Sync as an optional subscription on top if you want two Macs kept in step. Buying nothing beyond the app leaves you with a fully working local vault, which is the floor Amplenote's free tier competes against. What Amplenote's $70 buys is a feature set Valutorio does not have at any price: no tasks, no calendar, no scheduling.