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Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- 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
- 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
- Raven
Snap a photo of highlighted book passages and Raven turns them into tagged, searchable notes with summaries.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- GYST
Collect links, screenshots, notes and files on a visual board, connect them with tags, and ask AI questions about them.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Mana
Drop in papers, notes and transcripts and an AI agent files them into a cited, linked markdown wiki you keep.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- 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
- SlimWiki
Simple hosted wikis where teams or individuals write and share docs, public or private, with their own branding.
Since 2014
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- TiddlyWiki
Personal notebook that lives in one web page or a small server, linking short notes together however you like.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Seychl
A Mac notes app for keeping Markdown documents, driven by the keyboard, with fuzzy search and version history.
Since 2025
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Trilium Notes
An open-source app for building a personal knowledge base of linked notes, used offline or synced to your own server.
Since 2019
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families