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Notes and knowledge software for creators and writers
Notes and knowledge tools made for creators and writers. 86 products listed. Of these, 45 have a free plan, 15 sell for a one-off price, 1 carries proof such as verified revenue, update history or uptime.
- 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
- Bear
A Markdown notes and writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that organises notes with tags and syncs through iCloud.
Since 2016Updated 7 days ago
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Birdfeeder
Weekly email of the posts you saved on Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and X, plus a searchable archive of everything you bookmarked.
Since 2026
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- CastLoom Pro
Desktop app that plays and batch downloads podcasts, then transcribes and translates them offline into your notes.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Podcasting · Individuals and families
- Cohestry
Notes app for Mac and iPhone that spots related notes and lets you browse them as a three dimensional graph, with Apple Notes import.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- cyberWriter
Note app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that keeps a folder of Markdown files linked with wikilinks, backlinks and a graph, plus PDF export.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- EdgeEver
An open-source notes and knowledge base you host on Cloudflare or Docker, with desktop, mobile and web clipper apps plus AI agent links.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Nodea
Chat with Claude on a canvas where any reply can be forked into its own branch and compared side by side.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Quillite Markdown
A desktop Markdown editor with live rendering, formula and chart templates, optional AI help and export to 12 formats.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Theorem
An open source reader for EPUB, PDF, comics and RSS that saves your highlights to an Obsidian or Logseq vault as Markdown.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Writer
A small, fast Mac app for writing and browsing markdown notes stored in your own folders.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Alistair
Desktop writing app for authors to plan worlds, plot stories, draft books and format screenplays, all offline.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- AnnexEdit
A native Mac Markdown editor with themes, templates and PDF or DOCX export, bought once with no subscription.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- AudioPen
Speak your thoughts and AudioPen turns the recording into tidy written text in a style you pick, on phone, desktop or browser.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Blinko
Jot down quick ideas, expand them with AI into notes, and publish chosen ones to a personal blog.
Free plan · 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
- Caret
Desktop Markdown editor with autocomplete, multiple cursors and quick file jumping.
Since 2015
One-off payment · 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
- Clipto
Transcribes and indexes your videos, meetings and documents on your own computer so you can search and reuse them.
Free trial · Video and audio · Creators and writers
- Cockatoo
Turns audio and video files into editable text with speaker names and timestamps, then exports to DOCX, PDF or SRT.
Free plan · Video and audio
- CountNote
A memo app for writers that shows the character count as you type and keeps your drafts organised.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- CurateKit
Save links, quotes and articles, then publish them as a public site or an email digest for subscribers.
Since 2026
Free plan · Newsletters · Individuals and families
- Edmund
A free native Mac editor for Markdown files that shows formatting in line as you type and works with plain files on disk.
Free · 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
- GitWriter
iPhone Markdown editor for writers that saves and versions their files in GitHub repositories.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Glyph
A Mac app for writing and linking plain Markdown notes in your own folders, with boards, tables and optional AI help.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Grape
A note app for desktop and phone that records and transcribes, then answers questions using your own notes.
Since 2026
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
- hibi
Writing app for drafts, papers and notes kept as local files, with Markdown, Typst and LaTeX preview.
Since 2026
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- iA Writer
Focused writing app with a clean Markdown editor, for writers who want fewer distractions.
Free trial · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Ikes
A place to save ideas, quotes and images as tagged, colour-coded cards so you can find them again later.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Inkwell
Fast offline Markdown editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, free to use with a one-time Pro licence for PDF and HTML export.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Jotaid
Note app for Mac and iPhone that connects your notes by concept and groups them into themes on a canvas.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- JotterPad
Writing editor for Markdown and Fountain scripts that formats papers, books and screenplays, with cloud drive sync.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Creators and writers
- JustMD
Free Mac editor for Markdown files that shows syntax only on the line you are editing.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- LinkTaco
Save bookmarks, shorten links and publish link lists with click stats, hosted or on your own server.
Since 2025
Free plan · Marketing and social · 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
- Manzoni
A Mac word processor and hotkey writing helper that runs AI on your own machine so documents stay private.
Since 2025
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Marble
A free web Markdown editor for writing and sharing notes, with real-time collaboration, diagrams, math and PDF export.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Margin
Note app on iPhone and iPad where you write everything yourself and helper questions stay on the side until you choose to add one.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Markdown Buddy
A Mac app for previewing and editing Markdown, with a folder tree, broken link checks, Finder previews and Word or PDF import.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- 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
- MarkFlowy
A Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux that keeps files on your computer and lets you switch between visual and source editing.
Since 2025
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- MarkText
Desktop Markdown editor that shows formatting as you type, with themes, math, tables and diagrams.
Free · 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
- MemoryHole
Saves web pages you rely on in one click into a private archive you can search by remembered words and cite later.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Memos
A self-hosted place to jot quick markdown notes in a personal timeline, keeping each private or shared.
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
- 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
- Minimal
A quiet notes and writing app for Apple devices where old notes fade away, with todos and publishing notes as web pages.
Subscription · 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
- My Transcriber
Record or import audio on iPhone or Mac and get a word-for-word transcript done on the device, exported as text or subtitles.
Video and audio · Individuals and families
- MyMemo
Save articles, videos, files and recordings in one place, then get summaries and ask questions about what you saved.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Neverkin
A free worldbuilding app where writers and game masters keep lore, timelines and mind maps, and edit together.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NoteCat
Discord bot that captures voice chats and writes them up as live text, AI summaries and transcripts you can share.
Since 2026
Free plan · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- 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
- NoteUX
A minimal browser scratch pad for quick notes, saved locally, with dark mode and text download.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NovelOS
A local writing studio for novelists with plotting boards, character profiles, world notes and a manuscript editor, bought once.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- novelWriter
A desktop writing app for novelists that keeps chapters and notes as plain text files with synopses and cross references.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Octarine
A quick note-taking app for Mac and iPhone that saves your writing as plain Markdown files on your own device.
Since 2025
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families