Anytype is a safe haven for digital collaboration: one private place to chat, craft docs, organise projects, and build shared knowledge — all without surrendering your data.
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I was looking for something to be my second brain and a way to keep up with multiple projects and areas of my life. I tried a different software first but was put off by their lowest tier pricing and the fact that it was not fully private and they had no intention of making it so.
I found Anytype while looking for an alternative and am glad I have. It does what I need and has plenty of features for me to figure out how to put to use. Thanks for the effort you are putting into this and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
I wouldn’t normally sign up for something like Product Hunt, but I wanted to so I could support your efforts in some way.
Keep up the good work!
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I've been using it for quite some time. The reason I stay is because it's synchronisation feature works really well. P2P on top of internet make a seamless experience. Changes made in one device is instantly updated to another device when two device open the same item. I've tested many app and no one does it better when it comes to fast synchronisation feature. I don't mind the learning curve because I can just create another space if I want to start fresh.
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I've been using Anytype since June 2020—literally from the first alpha release (I think) and it's stuck around longer than almost any other app I've tried.
As someone who compulsively tests every new PKM tool that comes out (and there are SO many these days), I usually end up deleting about 90% of them after a few days. They either don't click with how I work, or they're just not polished enough to actually rely on.
Anytype is one of the rare exceptions. Almost five years later and I'm still using it daily.
What keeps me around: the UI/UX just feels right, it works the same way across all my devices (which is harder than it sounds), and the dev team is genuinely great—responsive, transparent, and clearly cares about building something great. In a space that's honestly pretty noisy right now, Anytype has just quietly kept improving and doing what it does well.
If you're sick of PKM tools that look shiny but fall apart when you actually use them, give this one a shot.
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I like that is works across devices, and synchronises changes I make offline.
I wish there was a richer permission model.
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I love this app. I was an alpha tester & early adopter and purchased a three year plan as soon as it was available. This should be a permanent part of everyone’s stack.
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I started using Anytype a few months ago for my private projects and it's been a great experience. As a software engineer object-based systems are quite natural to me, but I can also see less tech-savvy people getting to grips with Anytype quickly. I haven't used chats yet, but I am enjoying all the improvements shipped with this release.
My start-up is operating in the sustainability space and currently using US-based cloud services (Notion, Google Workspace) which we're trying to sunset bit-by-bit. Chats could be a great replacement for either service.
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Been using for 2 years now… wouldn’t move away !
It’s my second brain and it allows me to put down everything I need to write down, in an organised manner to make it easy to retrieve. It has become a reference for my pro / personal thoughts like no other tool ever has.
Still looking forward to have an easier way to change the look & feel (without the need to master css), tags management (with hierarchy) & collapsable titles.
Now… I value much more your philosophy, the principles you stand for and that what makes your tool a jewel so I can wait for it !
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I have, at long last, settled on Anytype as my Evernote replacement. This was a years-long endeavor of frustration. I became quickly fed up with Evernote when it was sold (again?) and switched to a "heavy-feeling" Electron app on Mac. I continued to use it a but, but then they limited device syncing to 3 then 1 or whatever. Hell no. Some ten years of usage and dedication completely insulted and denigrated by their desperate tight-grip tactics. If Evernote dies, that death has been years in the making. It's sad.
Of course, I tested Notion briefly (since it is SO overhyped as if it is the most supreme note app ever) … but no thanks. It's got a "flimsy-feeling" interface on Mac and iOS, and I am astounded at how badly they have failed at offline sync. Their 2025 great big sync update is less functional than what Evernote already had a decade ago. Like, how? I don't even.
Finally I found Anytype.
I LOVE and profoundly value their devotion to Data Sovereignty. I love seeing the major progress and development every quarter or so. I love how sincere and responsive they are — and how devoted they are even though revenue needs to improve.
I was not around for the alpha stage but Anytype is technically still in beta, yet it is sound. I think the Mac version runs on Electron too? But they made the app feel very "locked in" to basic macOS UI/UX sensitives and very "solid-feeling" which is exactly what I want from the UI/UX. But if they achieved this with Electron, I don't understand how other apps have failed and are left with a "heavy" or "squishy" or whatever strange UI sensations — looking at you, Evernote and Slack. I profoundly dislike those apps on Mac. I am devoted to Apple ecosystem and UI/UX philosophy and demand that the apps I use most largely conform to Apple's paradigm. Anytype has some proprietary quirks but is otherwise really nice, on both Mac and iOS.
I have used Anytpe for about a year now. I have imported everything from Notion, and slowly but surely import old notes from Evernote as I need them. (The Evernote import function is very awkward and convoluted, but it works and I am okay with it. I just import as I need instead of trying to do hundreds of notes at once. If Evernote shows signs of sinking, I'll expedite my exports.)
On the forum I had made a use case for integrated private AI functionality, and lo and behold they announce AI Ally on their December town hall webinar. They were clearly already working on this in spite a good deal of resistance against AI on the forum. Their implementation appears to great and protects data integrity, similar to Apple's stance on privacy, which is the stance I most respect and trust concerning all this AI stuff. (OpenAI is iffy, and who wants to give even more personal data and insights to Google.) My ultimate hope is that I will be able to use Apple A.I. inside Anytype, but I'm not knowledgable on if this has been made possible yet. Maybe with the ever-desired New Siri hopefully coming in Spring 2026 with OS 26.4.
I will be honest, there is one thing I really miss from Notion: the highlight colors. lol. A small thing but I use them a lot, and Anytype's hues just aren't my favorite. But IMO little things like this are really the only area where Anytype "needs" to improve from the beta state, and they are very responsive and will get around to it eventually, and the app is stable and functional in spite little decor issues. Especially now that their big Chat function has been released, it sounds like they'll make quicker progress on other desired updates. They said they learned a lot from creating Chat, yet I have no personal use for Chats currently, so I'm eager to see what other developments may evolve from that knowledge down the road.
Anytype is one of the very few apps in which I have such hope and confidence and faith in their future development. I cannot say the same for Notion with its flopped and arcane sync "progress," so overhyped and popular yet so backwards in implementation; and I feel completely betrayed by Evernote.
But Anytype honors me, and all the other users, and listens to us, and safeguards our data. The app is a beta but I truly find it better than the final/current releases of Evernote and Notion. Yeah, I checked out Obsidian too, but that appeared to be a complex app and I did not like how it stored files. The only cool thing was the focus on interlinks and the data-web. But Anytype has its own version of that anyway, and maybe it will evolve and become stronger too.
I do use Apple Notes a ton, usage which started with my first Mac and iPhone, but that's more for research notetaking where I access them a lot and paste in and type a lot of updates throughout the day. Anytype safeguards my more longterm data and references, just as Evernote once did. I love having all of these references and things like book notes or extensive event/workshop notes in there, and do not like having these items in Apple Notes.
So Anytype is doing me well. It was sort of found with divine timing and alignment after years of frustration. There's no big hype machine pushing it onto people, yet even in beta it is better than some of the most popular things. Its future can only get brighter.
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A fantastic piece of software with a great mission of building a privacy first, local first, second brain. They have kept to this promise so far, and it's why I stick with it, and I think you should to.
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I was looking for something to be my second brain and a way to keep up with multiple projects and areas of my life. I tried a different software first but was put off by their lowest tier pricing and the fact that it was not fully private and they had no intention of making it so.
I found Anytype while looking for an alternative and am glad I have. It does what I need and has plenty of features for me to figure out how to put to use. Thanks for the effort you are putting into this and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
I wouldn’t normally sign up for something like Product Hunt, but I wanted to so I could support your efforts in some way.
Keep up the good work!
I've been using it for quite some time. The reason I stay is because it's synchronisation feature works really well. P2P on top of internet make a seamless experience. Changes made in one device is instantly updated to another device when two device open the same item. I've tested many app and no one does it better when it comes to fast synchronisation feature. I don't mind the learning curve because I can just create another space if I want to start fresh.
I've been using Anytype since June 2020—literally from the first alpha release (I think) and it's stuck around longer than almost any other app I've tried.
As someone who compulsively tests every new PKM tool that comes out (and there are SO many these days), I usually end up deleting about 90% of them after a few days. They either don't click with how I work, or they're just not polished enough to actually rely on.
Anytype is one of the rare exceptions. Almost five years later and I'm still using it daily.
What keeps me around: the UI/UX just feels right, it works the same way across all my devices (which is harder than it sounds), and the dev team is genuinely great—responsive, transparent, and clearly cares about building something great. In a space that's honestly pretty noisy right now, Anytype has just quietly kept improving and doing what it does well.
If you're sick of PKM tools that look shiny but fall apart when you actually use them, give this one a shot.
I like that is works across devices, and synchronises changes I make offline.
I wish there was a richer permission model.
I love this app. I was an alpha tester & early adopter and purchased a three year plan as soon as it was available. This should be a permanent part of everyone’s stack.
I started using Anytype a few months ago for my private projects and it's been a great experience. As a software engineer object-based systems are quite natural to me, but I can also see less tech-savvy people getting to grips with Anytype quickly.
I haven't used chats yet, but I am enjoying all the improvements shipped with this release.
My start-up is operating in the sustainability space and currently using US-based cloud services (Notion, Google Workspace) which we're trying to sunset bit-by-bit. Chats could be a great replacement for either service.
Been using for 2 years now… wouldn’t move away !
It’s my second brain and it allows me to put down everything I need to write down, in an organised manner to make it easy to retrieve. It has become a reference for my pro / personal thoughts like no other tool ever has.
Still looking forward to have an easier way to change the look & feel (without the need to master css), tags management (with hierarchy) & collapsable titles.
Now… I value much more your philosophy, the principles you stand for and that what makes your tool a jewel so I can wait for it !
I have, at long last, settled on Anytype as my Evernote replacement. This was a years-long endeavor of frustration. I became quickly fed up with Evernote when it was sold (again?) and switched to a "heavy-feeling" Electron app on Mac. I continued to use it a but, but then they limited device syncing to 3 then 1 or whatever. Hell no. Some ten years of usage and dedication completely insulted and denigrated by their desperate tight-grip tactics. If Evernote dies, that death has been years in the making. It's sad.
Of course, I tested Notion briefly (since it is SO overhyped as if it is the most supreme note app ever) … but no thanks. It's got a "flimsy-feeling" interface on Mac and iOS, and I am astounded at how badly they have failed at offline sync. Their 2025 great big sync update is less functional than what Evernote already had a decade ago. Like, how? I don't even.
Finally I found Anytype.
I LOVE and profoundly value their devotion to Data Sovereignty. I love seeing the major progress and development every quarter or so. I love how sincere and responsive they are — and how devoted they are even though revenue needs to improve.
I was not around for the alpha stage but Anytype is technically still in beta, yet it is sound. I think the Mac version runs on Electron too? But they made the app feel very "locked in" to basic macOS UI/UX sensitives and very "solid-feeling" which is exactly what I want from the UI/UX. But if they achieved this with Electron, I don't understand how other apps have failed and are left with a "heavy" or "squishy" or whatever strange UI sensations — looking at you, Evernote and Slack. I profoundly dislike those apps on Mac. I am devoted to Apple ecosystem and UI/UX philosophy and demand that the apps I use most largely conform to Apple's paradigm. Anytype has some proprietary quirks but is otherwise really nice, on both Mac and iOS.
I have used Anytpe for about a year now. I have imported everything from Notion, and slowly but surely import old notes from Evernote as I need them. (The Evernote import function is very awkward and convoluted, but it works and I am okay with it. I just import as I need instead of trying to do hundreds of notes at once. If Evernote shows signs of sinking, I'll expedite my exports.)
On the forum I had made a use case for integrated private AI functionality, and lo and behold they announce AI Ally on their December town hall webinar. They were clearly already working on this in spite a good deal of resistance against AI on the forum. Their implementation appears to great and protects data integrity, similar to Apple's stance on privacy, which is the stance I most respect and trust concerning all this AI stuff. (OpenAI is iffy, and who wants to give even more personal data and insights to Google.) My ultimate hope is that I will be able to use Apple A.I. inside Anytype, but I'm not knowledgable on if this has been made possible yet. Maybe with the ever-desired New Siri hopefully coming in Spring 2026 with OS 26.4.
I will be honest, there is one thing I really miss from Notion: the highlight colors. lol. A small thing but I use them a lot, and Anytype's hues just aren't my favorite. But IMO little things like this are really the only area where Anytype "needs" to improve from the beta state, and they are very responsive and will get around to it eventually, and the app is stable and functional in spite little decor issues. Especially now that their big Chat function has been released, it sounds like they'll make quicker progress on other desired updates. They said they learned a lot from creating Chat, yet I have no personal use for Chats currently, so I'm eager to see what other developments may evolve from that knowledge down the road.
Anytype is one of the very few apps in which I have such hope and confidence and faith in their future development. I cannot say the same for Notion with its flopped and arcane sync "progress," so overhyped and popular yet so backwards in implementation; and I feel completely betrayed by Evernote.
But Anytype honors me, and all the other users, and listens to us, and safeguards our data. The app is a beta but I truly find it better than the final/current releases of Evernote and Notion. Yeah, I checked out Obsidian too, but that appeared to be a complex app and I did not like how it stored files. The only cool thing was the focus on interlinks and the data-web. But Anytype has its own version of that anyway, and maybe it will evolve and become stronger too.
I do use Apple Notes a ton, usage which started with my first Mac and iPhone, but that's more for research notetaking where I access them a lot and paste in and type a lot of updates throughout the day. Anytype safeguards my more longterm data and references, just as Evernote once did. I love having all of these references and things like book notes or extensive event/workshop notes in there, and do not like having these items in Apple Notes.
So Anytype is doing me well. It was sort of found with divine timing and alignment after years of frustration. There's no big hype machine pushing it onto people, yet even in beta it is better than some of the most popular things. Its future can only get brighter.
A fantastic piece of software with a great mission of building a privacy first, local first, second brain. They have kept to this promise so far, and it's why I stick with it, and I think you should to.