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app_name: "AFFiNE: Notes, Whiteboard AI"
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report_date: "2026-10-10"
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citation: "Marlvel.ai - AFFiNE: Notes, Whiteboard AI User Sentiment (section of intelligence report)"
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## 🔴 User Sentiment (High Confidence: 66 of 66 reviews analyzed) {#user-sentiment}
- **Overall Rating:** 2.89/5
- **Platform Split:** iOS 4.3/5 (36 ratings) | Android 2.7/5 (319 ratings)
- **Overall Sentiment:** Frustrated

### Top Praises
- **Open-source and local-first architecture builds trust for users seeking a private knowledge management workspace**
- **Clean and elegant interface design provides a cohesive experience for organizing notes and project tasks**

### Top Complaints (Impact Areas)

- **Self-hosted instance login failures prevent users from accessing their data after the latest update**

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