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- Homebrew
brew install --cask devonthink
About DEVONthink
DEVONthink gathers texts, PDFs, web pages, images, emails and spreadsheets into databases where they can be organized, linked and searched. It supports automated workflows with actions and triggers, and works for single users or teams across Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Version 4 adds an AI chat assistant that can use generative models, a web interface, revision-proof databases for records such as financial documents, and automatic versioning. It is sold in several editions.
Strengths
- Handles almost any document type in one database
- Automation with actions and triggers
- Automatic versioning and revision-proof databases
Limitations
- Apple platforms only
- Paid, with a steep learning curve
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid, sold in several editions.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- DEVONtechnologies
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Researchers and professionals managing large document collections on a Mac
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to DEVONthink
Compare allSoftware that can replace DEVONthink for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Keep It
A notebook and document organizer for Mac, iPhone and iPad that integrates with the Finder.
Keep It is a paid Mac and iOS organizer for notes, PDFs, emails and web archives with Finder-visible files and tags, but lacks DEVONthink's automation and versioning.
Evernote
A long-running note-taking app with notebooks, tasks, calendar links, search and web clipping.
Evernote stores notes, clippings and tasks in a cloud notebook on Android, iOS and the web, moving your collection to Evernote's servers with many features on paid plans.
TagSpaces
An offline file organizer that adds color-coded tags to files and folders without a database.
TagSpaces is a free, open-source file organizer that tags files without a database across desktop, mobile and web, though sync relies on third-party services.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft's freeform digital notebook with sections, pages, web clipping and cloud sync.
Microsoft OneNote offers free freeform notebooks with web clipping in the browser, storing notes in Microsoft's cloud rather than managing local document databases.
DEVONthink as an alternative
Listings that name DEVONthink as an alternative.
Tinderbox
A Mac app for making, visualizing and analyzing notes, with map views and automation.
DEVONthink is a paid Mac and iOS document manager with automation through actions and triggers, focused on storing and searching large document collections.
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Karakeep
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Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
