Windi is a knowledge management app that helps you take short notes, make sense of them, and share with your communities.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
United States
DEVONthink Alternatives
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Notebook is a personal notebook application. Its for storing notes, to-do lists, daily logs, things you want to remember, neat ideas you might do something with some day, cute things your children said, bad jokes--all the kinds of things you would write down now if only you had...
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Terminal-based, hyper-fast, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking tool Simple, powerful, extremely fast search. fzn is local-first; remote-second. It acts on local in-memory data, meaning no expensive I/O and native speeds.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Sweden
EU
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Fouine searches the text of every document on your Mac, scanned pages included, and opens the preview at the exact page. Fouine supports hundreds of file formats and lets AI agents help you find your texts.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Source Available
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
+2
Local full featured notes (text, md, rich, spreadsheet, draw) that sit next to the PDFs and Office files you already have, without rewriting them.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
+3
Noteshare is based on Aquaminds Notetaker, a outlining, clipping, voice note and web browsing tool. It does not allow for freeform notes, only outlining. Noteshare, unlike Notetaker, allows you to share your notebooks over P2P connections (a network) with both Mac and PC like...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
InkyCap is a personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that uses Typst markup. It focuses on academics, writers, and anyone wanting both conventional PKM functionality and advanced features for publishing, knowledge discovery, recall, and ideation, as well as agenda-keeping...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Canada
+4
52 Plainva alternativesPlainva is an open-source, local-first editor for plain Markdown vaults. It aims to open existing Obsidian-compatible vaults directly from cloud storage and preserve file ownership.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Germany- EU
+4
A lightweight, elegant reference manager. Organize your library, extract annotations from PDFs, auto-enrich metadata, and export BibTeX or RIS — your data stays locally.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
China
+5
Info Select is a Personal Information Manager that organizes Internet data, notes, to-do's, schedules, contacts, addresses, forms, ideas, images, and much more. Been around since early Windows, highly regarded but very expensive for a PIM.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
