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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.
- Piruetas
Simple private diary with one page per day, photo uploads and export, free to use or run on your own server.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Pixno
Snap a photo, PDF or recording and get a tidy text note you can send to Notion, Obsidian or Google Docs.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Plainpad
A simple notes app you host yourself for study plans, trip lists and ideas, with encryption, quick search and optional paid hosting.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Plans
Free iPhone app for notes and to-do lists, turning notes into tasks with a weekly view and reminders.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Ploze
Loads your exported data from many services onto your computer and shows it as one private, searchable life timeline.
Since 2025
Data and spreadsheets · Individuals and families
- plumio
A markdown notes app you run in one Docker container, with multiple organisations, themes and no tracking.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Potoroo
A private iPhone journal where you write short tweet-length posts, reply to old thoughts and keep everything on your device.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Publish Markdown
Write markdown and share it as a web page with custom links, passwords, expiry and an API.
Since 2025
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Creators and writers
- Quick Note
A Mac menu bar app for sticky notes that float above other windows, opened with a single shortcut.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- QuikFlow
App for making flowcharts and mind maps where the layout arranges itself as you add steps.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Quincy
A Mac PDF reader for studying hard documents: ask questions about the page, get summaries and quizzes, and have passages read aloud.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- 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
- Raneto
A self-hosted knowledge base that serves Markdown files as searchable, editable docs for teams.
Free · Notes and knowledge
- 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
- RDLTR
Save links to read later from any browser, then browse the pile with keyboard shortcuts, summaries and audio.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Read.md
Opens Markdown files on phone, tablet or Mac and shows tables, code and diagrams cleanly, with paid PDF export.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Readeck
Save articles, pictures and videos to read later, with highlights, labels, search and ebook export.
Free · 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
- 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
- ReChew
Save links, notes and voice memos, get AI summaries, then review them on a spaced schedule so you remember them.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- reconfigured
A notes app for quick capture by hotkey that tags notes with AI and lets you search them or ask them questions.
Since 2025
Subscription · Notes and knowledge
- Recorn
Record calls, meetings and memos, then read transcripts, short summaries, tags and tone analysis on phone or web.
Video and audio · Individuals and families
- 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
- Reproof
Writing app that keeps several takes of each paragraph, so writers can compare drafts, restore cut passages and proofread.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Repsona
Task and project tracking for teams with Gantt timelines, Kanban boards and a shared Markdown wiki.
Since 2024
Free plan · Projects and tasks
- Saber
A free open-source app for handwritten notes with encrypted sync across phones, tablets and computers.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- SageOx
Records team discussions and decisions so AI coding agents can draw on them before writing code.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- Sakha
A Slack assistant that learns your company policies and answers staff questions, and helps onboard new hires.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge
- Sarala
Desktop Markdown editor that shows the formatted page as you type, with diagrams, math and an optional AI helper.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- ScreenApp
Records meetings, lectures and calls, then transcribes them and writes summaries you can search and question.
Free plan · Video and audio
- ScreenHint
Mac app that captures any area of your screen as a floating snippet you can resize, kept above other windows while you work.
Free · 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
- Scrivener
Writing software that helps novelists, screenwriters and other authors plan, organise and draft long manuscripts.
Notes and knowledge · Creators and writers
- Scrybble
Moves handwritten notes and highlights from a reMarkable tablet into an Obsidian vault as searchable Markdown.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- SealedPocket
An iPhone and iPad app that locks private photos, videos, files, voice notes and a diary in an encrypted vault on the device.
Free plan · Security and passwords · Individuals and families
- Secure Notes
A notes app for phones that locks each note behind a passcode or Face ID, with a decoy PIN and encrypted backups.
Free · Security and passwords · 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
- Sheetlet
An iPhone and iPad app that keeps notes, to-do lists and cost tables in one document for home projects or trips.
Data and spreadsheets · Individuals and families
- Shiyin
Free Mac and Windows app that records meetings, writes a transcript and turns it into minutes with timestamped links to the audio.
Free · Notes and knowledge
- Silkwave Voice
A Mac app that records meetings, transcribes them on device with speaker labels, and lets you summarise and query them.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge
- SilverBullet
A notes and wiki tool built on plain Markdown files you control, for personal notes, team wikis or published docs.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- SimpleMind
Mind mapping app for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, paid once per platform with no subscription.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- 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
- 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
- Slite
A shared knowledge base for teams that flags stale docs and keeps company answers current for people and AI agents.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- SnipFast
Upload a photo of a page and it pulls out the highlighted text, or lets you tap the lines you want to copy.
Since 2025
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Snipscribe
A Windows app that pulls tagged, searchable snippets out of photos of your handwritten notes using marks you draw.
Since 2025
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Snug
Chrome add on that saves your bookmarks to a file, restores them and runs timed backups locally, with no account needed.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Social Archiver
Keeps copies of posts you pick in a private archive on your own device, through a phone app, browser add on or Obsidian plugin.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Socratus
A notes app that links your ideas in a visual graph, answers questions about your notes and keeps data on your device.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Speechmark
A Mac menu bar app that records meetings, transcribes them by speaker and writes notes, all kept on your computer.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge
- Spellar
Records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls on your own device and writes AI summaries and action items, with no bot in the call.
Since 2023
Subscription · Notes and knowledge
- 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
- SPQRK Today
An offline Android app where you jot items through the day, then give them a date and duration so your day stays realistic.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Stash
A Mac notes app that keeps text, markdown and CSV files in a local folder and syncs them through git.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Steel Notes
iPhone app that turns photos of book pages and voice memos into searchable Markdown notes kept privately.
Notes and knowledge · 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
- StenifyAI
Records or takes uploaded audio and gives a transcript with speakers, a summary and action items for meetings.
Since 2025
Pay as you go · Notes and knowledge
- Steno
A block-based writing and notes app for Mac, iPad and iPhone with linked notes, iCloud sync and home screen widgets.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Stickies
Sticky-note boards with kanban and gallery views for brainstorming, collecting content and keeping track of tasks.
Free trial · Projects and tasks