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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Raindrop.io
Save and organise links, articles and videos into collections with tags, highlights and full text search.
Since 2014
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Nuclino
A fast shared wiki where teams keep documents, notes and project boards together.
Since 2016
Projects and tasks
- Spinach AI
Records and transcribes team meetings, writes summaries and sends action items to your tickets, email and CRM.
Since 2019
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Annotate.tv
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
- ZenJournal
A private phone journal that opens straight to a blank entry, with search and a discreet hide mode, for people who log thoughts fast.
Since 2019
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Grain
Records and transcribes your calls, writes summaries and sends meeting notes on to AI tools, for sales and customer teams.
Since 2020
Free plan · CRM and sales
- Perfect Wiki
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
- Monica
A private personal CRM that records details, dates and past chats about the people in your life.
Since 2017
CRM and sales · Individuals and families
- Slab
A company wiki where teams write, organise and search shared docs and policies, with search across linked tools.
Since 2020
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Milanote
Lets creative people put notes, images, links and tasks on visual boards to plan projects and share them with clients.
Since 2017
Design and images · Agencies
- NotePlan
Daily notes app that puts project notes, tasks, Apple Calendar events and Reminders side by side for planning each day.
Since 2020
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- RemNote
Note app for students that builds flashcards, quizzes and summaries from notes and PDFs with spaced repetition.
Since 2021
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Zotero
Free tool for researchers and students to collect sources while browsing, organise them and build citations and bibliographies.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- GinkgoNotes
Sends your notes from books, podcasts and articles back by email or Telegram on a spaced repetition schedule so you remember them.
Since 2024
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- flooow
Notes app that works like a chat with yourself, with separate threads, checklists, voice notes, files and offline sync.
Since 2024
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- MarkViewer
Free offline Mac app to open, read and edit Markdown files, with a table of contents and AI review notes.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Accomplishments App
Keep a running log of your work wins with email reminders, then export it when performance review time comes.
Since 2022
Subscription · Payroll and HR
- ULY
A personal journal for phone or web where you save each day as text, photos or short videos.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Linkwarden
Saves bookmarks along with full copies of each page so links never break, with reading, notes and shared collections.
Since 2023
Subscription · Notes and knowledge
- Bookmory
Phone app for readers to log books and reading time, set reading goals and keep notes and quotes from each book.
Since 2022
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Stik
Mac app that opens a floating note on a shortcut so you can jot a thought, saved as a local markdown file.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- HackMD
Shared Markdown notes and docs that a team and its AI agents can write and edit together in real time.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Developers
- Saga
A shared workspace where people and small teams write linked notes and docs, keep tasks, and ask an AI assistant.
Since 2024
Free plan · Projects and tasks
- Stempad
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
- EventCatalog
Self-hosted catalog where engineering teams document services, events, schemas and domains of a distributed system.
Since 2022
Developer tools · Developers
- VoiceTaking
Transcribes Meet, Zoom and Teams calls from your browser without a bot, then writes a summary and action items from a template.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge
- MindMup
Make mind maps, org charts and fishbone diagrams in the browser, then present them or export them as text.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NotesHub
Markdown note app for every device that stores plain files and syncs through Git, GitHub, iCloud or your own server.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Email Me
An Apple app that sends a typed note or transcribed voice memo to your own inbox in a few taps.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- ManageMeals
Save recipes from any website without the ads, then plan meals and build shopping lists at home.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Dubble
A Chrome extension that records you doing a task and turns it into a written how-to guide with screenshots and video.
Free · Notes and knowledge
- An Otter Wiki
A simple self-hosted wiki that stores markdown pages in git, with file attachments and full page history.
Free · Notes and knowledge
- smry
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
- Ideon
Visual canvas where teams arrange repos, notes, links and people for a project and work on it together live.
Projects and tasks · Software companies
- Orgnise
Shared space where teams write docs and move the same pages across boards to track project status.
Free plan · Projects and tasks
- OpenNotas
Lightweight note app for phone and desktop that syncs through your own storage backend and encrypts notes end to end.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NoteDiscovery
A free markdown notes app you run on your own server, with wikilinks, a graph view, diagrams, math and an MCP link for AI tools.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Collate
A Mac app that reads your PDFs with an on-device AI model, so you can ask questions, get summaries and jump to cited pages.
Since 2024
Free · Documents and e-signature
- Marked 2
Mac app that previews Markdown from any editor as you save, then exports it to HTML, PDF or Word.
Free trial · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Zettlr
A free desktop Markdown app for researchers and writers, with citations, local files and export to journal templates.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Vexa
API that sends a bot into Meet, Teams or Zoom calls and streams speaker-labelled transcripts, self-hosted or in their cloud.
Since 2024
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- ScreenHint
Mac app that captures any area of your screen as a floating snippet you can resize, kept above other windows while you work.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Justnote
Simple note app focused on privacy, free to use, with a low yearly plan that adds tags, locked notes and dark mode.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Bookmark It.
A web bookmark manager with a browser extension that saves, sorts and shares the sites you want to keep.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Lighthouse
A reading inbox that gathers blogs, newsletters and sites so software professionals can quickly keep only the useful articles.
Since 2024
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- linkding
A small self-hosted bookmark manager for saving, tagging, archiving and searching links, with browser extensions.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Recall
Saves videos, podcasts, PDFs and articles, summarises them, and lets you search and chat across what you saved.
Since 2022
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- MWeb
Markdown app for Mac and iOS to write, keep notes and publish them as a static blog.
One-off payment · Website builders · Individuals and families