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Notes and knowledge software

Small, specific notes and knowledge tools, ready to use today. 496 products listed. Of these, 294 have a free plan, 52 sell for a one-off price, 11 carry proof such as verified revenue, update history or uptime.

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  Bookmory

  Phone app for readers to log books and reading time, set reading goals and keep notes and quotes from each book.

  Since 2022

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  BookStack

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

  Since 2022

  Free · Notes and knowledge

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  Brace.to

  Save links from any device into lists to open later, free with a low-cost yearly upgrade for tags and locks.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Brainio

  A Markdown note app that shows your notes as mind maps and a linked graph, with live shared editing.

  Since 2019

  Free · Notes and knowledge

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  Bullet

  A digital bullet journal for planning days to years with tasks, notes, events and habit tracking.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  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

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  CallCapture

  iPhone app that records calls and voice notes, then writes transcripts and summaries and keeps track of promises you made.

  Video and audio · Individuals and families

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  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

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  Capd

  A Mac app that saves links, text, images and notes from any app and finds them again with fast full-text search.

  Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Capture

  Speak a rough thought and the app splits it into tasks and ongoing topic threads you can search later.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Caret

  Desktop Markdown editor with autocomplete, multiple cursors and quick file jumping.

  Since 2015

  One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  Chat Archive

  Opens WhatsApp chat exports on iPhone so you can search them, replay voice notes and save the messages you need.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Chyrid

  Build product manuals and onboarding guides from blocks in a simple editor, then share them as mobile-friendly pages.

  Since 2025

  Documents and e-signature

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  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

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  Clover: Notes for Trilium

  iPhone and iPad app for reading, searching and editing a self-hosted TriliumNext notes base, offline too.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  CodeSummary

  Reads your code repository and builds reviewed documentation for your team, customers and coding agents over MCP.

  Since 2025

  Free trial · Developer tools · Developers

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  Collate

  A Mac app that reads your PDFs with an on-device AI model, so you can ask questions, get summaries and jump to cited pages.

  Since 2024

  Free · Documents and e-signature

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  Collections

  A browser side panel for gathering links, quotes and images while researching, then asking AI about what you kept.

  Since 2026

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  ContextNest

  Keeps one approved store of company knowledge that every AI tool a team uses reads from, with a log of each read.

  Since 2026

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge

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  CoreMem

  Stores your preferences and notes once so any AI tool or agent can load them, with you approving each change.

  Since 2026

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  Cue

  Records meetings and calls on your device, then gives you a transcript, summary and action items without a bot joining.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge

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  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

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  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

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  Daily Notes Planner 3

  A notes app organised by calendar day and folder, synced between iPhone, Mac, Android and the web.

  Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  DailyWall

  Write and decorate sticky notes and the iPhone app turns them into your lock screen wallpaper so plans stay in view.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Daino Notes

  A fast desktop notes app with blocks, Markdown, images and task boards, storing notes locally first.

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Darkwrite

  Free offline notebook app that keeps notes on your device with themes, PDF export and one-click backups, no account required.

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  Diary Keeper

  Private iPhone diary with Face ID, prompts, moods, photos and voice memos, backed up to iCloud without signing up.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Docai

  Builds readable feature documentation from your Jira releases and shows how features changed between versions, for software teams.

  Since 2025

  Free trial · Documents and e-signature · Software companies

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  DocBrain

  Captures what engineers figure out on the job and hands it to whichever colleague or coding agent works on that code later.

  Since 2026

  Free · Developer tools · Software companies

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  Docmost

  A team wiki for company knowledge that you can run on your own servers, with spaces, permissions and diagrams.

  Since 2024

  Notes and knowledge

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  DoCube

  Personal library for Mac, iPhone and iPad where you read and mark up PDFs, ebooks, web pages and videos, then search and review them.

  One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  DoubleMemory

  Saves anything you copy twice, tags it on your device and stores it in iCloud so you can find it later.

  Since 2025

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Earnote

  Records lectures and meetings on Mac or iPhone, transcribes them locally and turns them into notes, flashcards and study sheets.

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Echologue

  A private voice journal for your phone that turns spoken notes into memories you can ask questions about later.

  Since 2026

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  eLabFTW

  Open source electronic lab notebook where research teams record experiments, track lab supplies and book shared equipment.

  Free · Inventory and stock · Schools and tutors

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  Email Me

  An Apple app that sends a typed note or transcribed voice memo to your own inbox in a few taps.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Ember Notes

  A private Markdown notes app for iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync, Face ID lock and a place to keep reusable AI prompts.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  EventCatalog

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

  Since 2022

  Developer tools · Developers

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  ExcalidrawZ

  Native Mac, iPad and iPhone app for Excalidraw sketches with a local file library, history, search and cloud folder sync.

  Design and images

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  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

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  Files.md

  Free notes app that keeps journals, checklists and linked ideas as private Markdown files, with a chat-style capture box.

  Since 2026

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Flexcil

  A study app for reading and marking up PDFs and writing notes beside them on a tablet or the web.

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  Flow Note

  Records meetings on your phone, transcribes them and turns them into minutes with decisions and action items.

  Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  Flownote

  Records and transcribes your meetings on Mac or iPhone, then writes up notes, decisions and action items with no bot in the call.

  Notes and knowledge

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  Frames

  Notebook app for film photographers to log rolls and shot settings, then write that data into scanned images.

  Since 2025

  One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  FSNotes

  An open-source Mac and iPhone notes app that keeps Markdown as plain files, syncs over iCloud and backs up to Git.

  Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  GinkgoNotes

  Sends your notes from books, podcasts and articles back by email or Telegram on a spaced repetition schedule so you remember them.

  Since 2024

  One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families

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  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

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  GitWriter

  iPhone Markdown editor for writers that saves and versions their files in GitHub repositories.

  Since 2026

  Free · Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers

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  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

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  GraceLitRev

  Helps PhD students and research teams import papers, pull out metadata with AI and run systematic reviews together.

  Since 2025

  Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Schools and tutors

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  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

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