No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- 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