No moat. Still in business.

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Free self-hosted wiki that lets a team organise its documentation into shelves, books and pages.

Since 2022

Free · Notes and knowledge

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A distraction-free writing page that saves notes on your device, works offline, and needs no account.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A Slack assistant that learns your company policies and answers staff questions, and helps onboard new hires.

Notes and knowledge

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Bookmark manager that saves links, notes, images and PDFs, tags them with AI and makes them searchable.

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Follow feeds and save articles, then get short summaries and ask questions about what you have read.

Since 2023

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Outliner for organizing notes, to dos and ideas as nested bullets, with Workflowy import, OPML or Markdown export and a free tier.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Take notes tied to moments in YouTube videos, query the transcript and send your notes to Notion, Obsidian or Readwise.

Since 2020

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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An iPhone app that records sermons, writes up transcripts and summaries, and turns them into study questions.

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Free Mac menu bar tool that transcribes meetings, calls and dictation on the device and can turn them into minutes.

Free · Notes and knowledge

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Records meetings and calls, then writes transcripts and short summaries with decisions and action items.

Notes and knowledge

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A small Mac app for jotting down passing thoughts and reminders, saved as a plain markdown file you can open anywhere.

One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A notes app that collects articles, links and PDFs and quizzes you on them so you remember what you saved.

Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Keeps the facts you want AI chats to remember about you and makes them available in ChatGPT or Claude, even in new chats.

Since 2026

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Free notes app that keeps journals, checklists and linked ideas as private Markdown files, with a chat-style capture box.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Records meetings and lectures from the Mac notch and transcribes them on your device, saving plain files you keep.

Free trial · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A private Android journal that saves entries as Markdown files, lets you edit from a laptop browser and backs up to Git.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Fast capture for screenshots, links, files and voice memos that AI sorts and labels for later, designed for people with ADHD.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A Chrome extension that remembers the pages you read, finds them again by meaning, groups tabs and answers questions about them.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Keeps a local record of your screen, audio and apps so AI tools can search your past work and spot tasks to automate.

Free plan · Automation and integrations

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A Mac menu bar app that records calls, transcribes them locally and gives you markdown notes and a summary.

Since 2026

Free trial · Notes and knowledge

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Mac app that records client calls and makes transcripts, summaries and action items on the device, with no cloud upload.

Since 2025

One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Law firms

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A wiki for SOPs, manuals and FAQs that sits in Microsoft Teams and answers staff questions from your own pages.

Since 2020

Subscription · Notes and knowledge

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A Mac app for reading Markdown files as clean documents, making quick line fixes and leaving margin notes for coding agents.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Mac scratchpad and clipboard history you open with a hotkey, with tabs, syntax colouring and iCloud sync.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Save articles, pictures and videos to read later, with highlights, labels, search and ebook export.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Transcribes Meet, Zoom and Teams calls from the browser and writes summaries and action items, with no bot joining.

Since 2026

Free plan · Notes and knowledge

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Indexes the documents, images and web clips on your computer so you and your AI assistants can search and read them.

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Save recipes from any website without the ads, then plan meals and build shopping lists at home.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A Mac menu bar app that records meetings, transcribes them by speaker and writes notes, all kept on your computer.

One-off payment · Notes and knowledge

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Writing software that helps novelists, screenwriters and other authors plan, organise and draft long manuscripts.

Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers

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Q&A site and knowledge base that teams can host themselves to collect answers to common questions.

Free · Customer support

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Small text app for jotting and keeping short notes, synced via iCloud to iPhone, iPad, Watch and Mac.

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Collects saves from X, YouTube, Instagram and your browser into a private library that AI describes so you can search in plain language.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A free open-source desktop notes app built around Markdown, with notebooks, encrypted notes, mind maps and export.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A Mac notes app that keeps text, markdown and CSV files in a local folder and syncs them through git.

One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A quick note-taking app for Mac and iPhone that saves your writing as plain Markdown files on your own device.

Since 2025

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Build product manuals and onboarding guides from blocks in a simple editor, then share them as mobile-friendly pages.

Documents and e-signature

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A browser note editor for science and maths students with quick equation entry, chemical structures and graphs.

Since 2024

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A Chrome extension that pins sticky notes to any web page and keeps them in one searchable notebook across visits.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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iPhone Markdown editor for writers that saves and versions their files in GitHub repositories.

Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers

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Mac app that records your calls without a bot, transcribes them on your machine and suggests answers from your files.

Since 2026

Free · Notes and knowledge

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Pulls your photos, messages, locations and social posts into one private timeline stored on your own computer.

Since 2025

Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Converts long YouTube videos into short readable summaries for students and busy learners.

One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families

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Desktop workspace that pulls your files and notes into structured plans and records the reasons behind each decision.

Free plan · Notes and knowledge

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A local writing studio for novelists with plotting boards, character profiles, world notes and a manuscript editor, bought once.

Since 2026

One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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Write markdown and share it as a web page with custom links, passwords, expiry and an API.

Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Creators and writers

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A journaling app where AI replies to your entries in the voice of famous thinkers to help you reflect.

Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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A private research notebook on your own computer that answers questions about your files and turns them into reports.

Notes and knowledge