mymind is a lovely product. The grid is beautiful, saving is effortless, and the no-filing idea is right. We still recommend it to people, so this is not one of those pages where the thing you are leaving gets trashed to make the alternatives look good.
The reason people leave is almost always the same. Your library lives on mymind's servers, the plan renews every year, and there is no free tier. The export exists, but it only runs from desktop Chrome or Edge, and there is no import back. Everything below is sorted by how it handles that one problem, because it is the one that makes people look.
Prices and platform facts were checked on September 8, 2026, against each product's own pricing or help pages. They drift. Check before you commit.
Pick by situation
| If you want | Look at |
|---|
| mymind's grid, as files you own, bought once | Tenoa |
| The cheapest polished bookmark manager, with a real free tier | Raindrop.io |
| A local design-asset library, bought once | Eagle |
| Free and self-hosted, with almost everything | Karakeep |
| AI summaries and a knowledge graph | Recall |
| Markdown straight into a folder, free | Obsidian Web Clipper |
| Visual discovery, closest to mymind's feel | Cosmos |
At a glance
| Tenoa | mymind | Raindrop | Eagle | Karakeep | Recall | Web Clipper | Cosmos |
|---|
| Visual grid library | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ |
| Files stay on your own disk | ✓ | · | · | ✓1 | ✓2 | · | ✓ | · |
| One-time purchase | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · |
| Free tier or free | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI summaries | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓3 | · |
| Search text inside images | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Search by meaning | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · |
| Video transcripts saved | ✓ | · | ✓4 | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| Imports a mymind export | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Export your data | ✓5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓5 | · |
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Windows | ✓6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
1 Originals sit inside Eagle's .library folder with its own metadata. 2 Self-hosted: you hold the database, not plain files. 3 Through Interpreter with a local model. 4 Transcript search on Pro. 5 Nothing to export; the library already is plain files. 6 Web app today, installer targeted October 1, 2026.
1. Tenoa
Visual library, files on your own disk, $49 once
A visual library for everything you save, where every item is a markdown file in a folder on your own computer with the original beside it. Search reads inside the content: PDF text, video transcripts, the words in a screenshot. Summaries and "more like this" run on a local model, or through an AI service with your own key.
Where it wins
- Keeps the part mymind got right, the visual no-filing grid, and changes the part underneath. Delete the app and the library is still a folder of files any app can open
- A mymind importer that runs on your own computer. 16,352 cards and 13,906 images and PDFs went through it with zero failures, wifi off
- No account, no subscription. $49 once for up to three desktop computers, a year of updates, free iPhone and iPad apps. Optional $29 a year for hosted sync and new features; skip it and everything you own keeps working
Where it falls short
- Young, and made by one person. mymind has years of polish on it
- Mac today. Windows web app now, installer targeted for October 1. No Android
- Chrome and Firefox extensions are not out yet; Safari is built in
Pick it if the thing that bothers you about mymind is where the library lives. Skip it if you want zero setup on every device, forever.
The honest mymind comparison table on tenoa.app
2. Raindrop.io
Bookmark manager, cloud, generous free tier
The polished, inexpensive bookmark manager. Collections, tags, permanent copies of pages on Pro, full-text search including YouTube transcripts on Pro, apps on every platform and every browser.
Where it wins
- The free tier is unlimited bookmarks, and Pro costs a few dollars a month. Nothing else here is this cheap for this much
- Widest platform coverage in the list: web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, every major extension
- Exports to HTML, CSV or text on every plan, with a manual full backup free
Where it falls short
- It is a list of bookmarks with images attached, not a visual library. The organization model is collections and tags, which is the thing mymind users left behind
- Search is keyword search. Nothing matches on meaning
- Your data lives in their cloud. Ownership is an export, not the default
Pick it if you want a fair-priced, reliable home for links and you do not mind filing.
3. Eagle
Local design-asset library, Mac and Windows, $34.95 once
A desktop library for design assets: images, fonts, colors, references. Sold once, with lifetime updates, for two computers. Thirty-day trial.
Where it wins
- Proves that a local visual library, bought once, is a product people pay for
- The most refined capture tool in the list: hover buttons on images, drag-to-save, batch-save every asset on a page, screenshots
- Mature on both Mac and Windows
Where it falls short
- Desktop only. There is no phone app
- Originals sit inside a .library folder with Eagle's metadata, so your notes and tags do not travel as plain files
- Text inside images needs a plugin that sends the image to Google's OCR service. No summaries
Pick it if your library is design assets and you live at the desk.
4. Karakeep
Open source, self-hosted or $4 a month cloud
An open-source bookmark-everything app. Links, notes, images, PDFs, full-page archives, OCR on images, semantic search, Ollama for summaries and tags, mobile apps, browser extensions, an API.
Where it wins
- Breadth for free. Self-host it and you get most of the feature list of every paid product here
- OCR on images and AI tagging are built in
- Exports to JSON or HTML any time, lists included
Where it falls short
- You are the sysadmin. Docker, upgrades, migrations, and it is still pre-1.0
- The database stays the source of truth. A community plugin can mirror bookmarks into Obsidian as markdown, but that is a copy
- Functional rather than beautiful. The cloud free tier is a ten-bookmark demo
Pick it if you already self-host things and want control over the bill.
5. Recall
AI-first knowledge base, free tier then $10 a month
Save a video, a podcast, a PDF or an article and Recall summarizes it, tags it, and links it to everything related. Chat over your saves, quizzes, spaced repetition. Web, iOS, Android, extensions for every browser.
Where it wins
- Summaries and automatic connections. Nothing else on this list is as good at turning a two-hour talk into something you can act on
- Exports to markdown, per card or the whole library as a zip
- Your saves stay if you stop paying; you drop to the free tier
Where it falls short
- Not a visual library. Images are secondary and the grid is not the point
- The free tier caps you at 10 AI summaries a month. Plus is $10 a month billed yearly, Max $38
- Connections, graph and quizzes do not come with the export
Pick it if what you save is mostly things to learn from, not things to look at.
6. Obsidian Web Clipper
Free browser extension, markdown into your vault
Obsidian's free clipper. A page, an article, a selection, straight into a markdown file in your vault. Per-site templates, a highlighter, optional local AI through Interpreter. Every major browser including Safari on iOS.
Where it wins
- Ownership at zero cost. The file lands in your folder from the first click
- Templates and variables let you shape exactly what gets saved
- No telemetry, no account
Where it falls short
- It captures pages, not a library. There is no visual grid and no search over images
- Images are left as remote links unless you run a separate download command afterwards
- Phone clipping works, but there is no visual library on the phone to browse
Pick it if you already live in Obsidian and text is most of what you save.
7. Cosmos
Visual discovery app, free to 500 saves, then $8 a month
The closest thing to mymind's feel. Save images, get AI tags and color-palette search, browse other people's collections. Web, iOS and iPadOS, Chrome extension.
Where it wins
- Image-native and calm. If mymind's grid is what you loved, this is the nearest look
- AI tags and color search out of the box
- Free up to 500 saves
Where it falls short
- Cloud by design and social by design. It is not a private archive
- No export documented. Getting out later is on you
- Minimal organization and no notes on images
Pick it if discovery matters more to you than ownership.
What we would actually do
Export first, before you cancel. mymind has no import, so the export is the only copy once the account closes. It runs from the Account page on desktop Chrome or Edge and produces every image and PDF plus a spreadsheet of your cards. Then try the alternative on that export rather than on a fresh library. A tool that looks good empty can look very different holding ten thousand of your things.
The export steps for mymind, Recall and a few others are written up at tenoa.app/import. They work whichever tool you pick.
And if you read all of this and decide mymind is still the right call, that is a fine outcome. It is a good product. Some of us just wanted the files.
Leaving mymind and want the files?
Tenoa imports the export on your own computer. 14-day trial, no card.