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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
- 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
- Vrite
Open-source shared editor and headless CMS for writing technical docs, dev blogs and knowledge bases, with Git sync.
Notes and knowledge · Developers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Paperbot AI
Converts long YouTube videos into short readable summaries for students and busy learners.
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- PipesHub
Searches your company's Slack, Drive, GitHub and other tools by permission and answers questions with links to the source.
Notes and knowledge
- 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
- Mind Map Wizard
Turns a topic, PDF, link or video into an editable mind map for students and anyone studying a subject.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Starcat
Mac app for developers that indexes their starred GitHub repos, tags and summarises them with AI, and tracks new releases.
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- Cerebro
Save videos, articles and PDFs, then ask questions in plain English to pull out what they said.
Since 2025
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Readit
Save articles, videos and PDFs to read later in a clean view, listen with text to speech, and keep a reading streak.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Moxie Docs
Keeps documentation in GitHub repos in step with the code and shares that context with teammates and AI coding agents.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Notanic
A note app on an endless canvas with nested pages, Markdown, sketching and live collaboration, for people who think visually.
Since 2025
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Deepmark
Collects saves from X, YouTube, Instagram and your browser into a private library that AI describes so you can search in plain language.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Alt
Records meetings and lectures and transcribes, translates and summarises them with AI that runs on your own device.
Since 2025
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Deta Surf
A notebook and browser in one that turns web pages, YouTube videos and PDFs into notes you can question with AI.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Timelinize
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
- Notedog
A private Android journal that saves entries as Markdown files, lets you edit from a laptop browser and backs up to Git.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- deariary
Writes a daily diary entry for you each morning from your calendar, chat, code and social activity.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Minibase
A browser extension that clips pages, videos and threads into Markdown files on your disk for Obsidian or AI assistants.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- GitWriter
iPhone Markdown editor for writers that saves and versions their files in GitHub repositories.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Open Notebook
Private research notebook that uses AI to summarise your links, PDFs and videos and can turn notes into podcasts.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- TooLongLink Desktop
Mac and Windows app that turns long YouTube videos and Twitch streams into readable summaries with the key charts and images.
Since 2025
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Cache
A notes and tasks app that keeps plain Markdown files on your devices and syncs them through any Git host you choose.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Summarize.ing
Paste a YouTube link to get a short summary, key points and a mind map of a long video.
Since 2024
Free plan · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Trott
Phone app for people who save lots of reels: it reads each one and keeps the key details so you can find or ask about them later.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families