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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.

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  • Nuclino

    A fast shared wiki where teams keep documents, notes and project boards together.

    Since 2016

    Projects and tasks

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Screenpipe

    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

  • BookStack

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

    Since 2022

    Free · Notes and knowledge

  • Journaling

    Free web journal with mood tracking, streaks and AI summaries of your emotional patterns over time.

    Since 2024

    Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • 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

  • Typora

    A desktop Markdown editor that hides the syntax and shows formatted text as you type, sold for a one-off fee.

    One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers

  • 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

  • QOwnNotes

    A free open-source desktop notes app that saves plain Markdown files and syncs through Nextcloud or ownCloud.

    Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • 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

  • Vrite

    Open-source shared editor and headless CMS for writing technical docs, dev blogs and knowledge bases, with Git sync.

    Notes and knowledge · Developers

  • Orgnise

    Shared space where teams write docs and move the same pages across boards to track project status.

    Free plan · Projects and tasks

  • Inkdrop

    A Markdown notes app for developers with encrypted sync, plugins and an API that coding agents can use.

    Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Developers

  • Hookmark

    A Mac app that copies clean links to files, emails, tasks and pages so you can jump back to them without searching.

    Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • Gistly

    A browser extension that adds bullet summaries, timestamped breakdowns and transcripts to YouTube videos so you can skip the long ones.

    Since 2024

    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

  • 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

  • EventCatalog

    Self-hosted catalog where engineering teams document services, events, schemas and domains of a distributed system.

    Since 2022

    Developer tools · Developers

  • 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

  • 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

  • FeedRewind

    Pick a blog and get its old posts delivered from the first one onward through a private RSS feed on days you choose.

    Since 2024

    Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • Karakeep

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

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Notenik

    A Mac notes app that keeps notes as plain Markdown text files in folders you choose, with links between notes.

    Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Capacities

    Note taking app where people, books, ideas and links become linked entries rather than documents sorted into folders.

    Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • Tot

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

    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

  • Fess

    A search server an organisation installs to crawl its websites, file shares and databases and give staff one search box.

    Free · Notes and knowledge

  • CustomGPT.ai

    Lets a business build AI chat assistants trained on its own content for customer support and internal search, with a RAG API.

    Since 2024

    Subscription · Customer support

  • Paperbot AI

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

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

  • tetrify

    Message yourself notes, tasks and reminders in a chat-style app that works offline with optional encrypted sync.

    Since 2024

    Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

  • ButterDocs

    A writing app that keeps notes, research, outlines and drafts together, for academics, novelists and content writers.

    Since 2024

    Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Law firms