GYST is an AI visual second brain for capturing, organizing and drafting from your own sources. Free plan; Thinker from $5/month. See features and pricing.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
GYST is a visual workspace that works as a second brain for saving, connecting and using what you know. The company describes it as one natural interface to think and create, where notes, links, files and other saved material sit together on pages and canvases.
The product is organized around four steps: capture, explore, think and create. People bring in screenshots, posts, websites, links, notes, files, videos and AI conversations, then organize them with bookmarks and tags. The aim is not only to store information but to build with it, alone, with other people or with AI.
GYST is built by Henri, Marion and Rodolphe, who say they read every message sent to hi@gyst.studio.
Work in GYST starts with capture. Users add content from the web or their files, and can save items from a phone through the iOS app, tagging or bookmarking them right away. Everything lands in a shared workspace of pages and canvases.
From there, users explore by moving through pages, tags, links and relationships. On a canvas they can cluster related items, compare them and question them. An AI assistant answers questions from the saved material, and its replies show how many sources from the board it used.
When it is time to produce something, GYST drafts outlines, scripts, briefs and posts from those sources. Each passage keeps the reference it came from, so a draft can be traced back to the original item.
The core of GYST is its capture and organization layer. It accepts many content types, supports tags and bookmarks, and offers unlimited pages and canvases on every plan. Spatial boards let users arrange and cluster material instead of keeping it in a flat list.
The AI layer is built around the user's own content. Prompts are sent with context drawn from to-dos and from how pages connect, with closer links sharing more and distant ones less. Users can choose among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and Llama models, or connect their own API key.
Collaboration covers real-time editing for unlimited people on paid plans, plus three sharing modes: view only, anyone can edit, and edit with a password.
GYST is an AI-powered visual workspace that acts as a second brain. Users capture links, files, notes and other content, organize it on canvases, and use AI to ask questions and draft new work from their own material.
GYST has a free plan at $0. The Thinker plan costs $5 per month, or $50 billed yearly, with taxes included. The Team plan has no public price, and users contact the company for it.
Yes. The Free plan offers unlimited pages and canvases, 100 MB of storage, 5 MB per file and view-only sharing. It needs no credit card and can be used for as long as you want.
GYST supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and Llama models. The Free plan starts on DeepSeek, and a top-up or the Thinker plan opens all models. Users can also bring their own API key.
Credits are used each time you work with AI, such as asking about content, summarizing or creating. Each model uses credits at its own rate. Each plan gives a one-time $1 credit, top-ups are $5, $10 or $20, and credits do not expire.
Yes. The Thinker plan allows real-time editing with unlimited people. The Team plan adds team setup, direct support, one invoice and storage and AI credits sized to the team.
The site mentions an iOS app for saving and tagging content while scrolling on a phone. No Android app is mentioned in the sources.
The company says it is open to running GYST inside a company and asks interested teams to talk to them. An on-premise option is listed under the Team plan as available on request.