Mindly is a macOS second-brain app with AI tagging, summaries and chat with documents. Free plan up to 25 items; Pro from €7.99 per month.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Mindly is an independent macOS app that acts as a private second brain. It lets users save notes, links, files, screenshots and voice memos with one shortcut, and it handles the organizing afterward. The aim is to avoid the filing work that makes most note systems fail.
The About page says it started from a familiar frustration: saving things is easy and finding them again is not. Mindly is built so that capture costs one keystroke and structure comes from the content itself. The team has no outside investor.
Users press ⌘M, or a custom shortcut, to open a small overlay from anywhere on the Mac. They can paste a link, type a note, drop a file or record voice, then return to what they were doing. Saves go into a single space or into separate spaces for projects and topics.
Once something is saved, the AI tags it, summarizes longer material, transcribes audio and connects it to related items. The mind map shows those links, and users can find items by describing them in plain language. The library sits in a folder on the user's Mac.
The core is quick capture plus automatic organization with tags, summaries and links. Voice notes are transcribed, and chat with documents lets users open any note or PDF and ask questions answered from their own material. The mind map, universal search and smart suggestions help surface related or forgotten saves.
Beyond that, Mindly offers spaces, a notes editor for full documents, reminders inside the library and three themes. Integrations with Notion, Google Drive, Dropbox and Readwise bring existing content in as read-only imports that receive the same tagging and summarizing as native captures.
Mindly is a macOS second-brain app. It captures notes, links, files and voice memos with one shortcut, then uses AI to tag, summarize and connect them. Users can search the library and chat with their documents.
Mindly has a Free plan at €0 forever with up to 25 items. Pro costs €7.99 per month, and a yearly option is shown at 53% off. The Pro features are identical on both billing cycles.
Yes. The Free plan includes one-shortcut capture, smart tags and connections, AI summaries on every save and the mind map, up to 25 items. No account or card is required to start.
Mindly supports macOS only, according to its website. It is available as a download for Mac.
Mindly says it stores the library in a folder on the user's Mac rather than a vendor cloud. AI processing runs over encrypted channels, and content is not retained after the request completes.
Mindly integrates with Notion, Google Drive, Dropbox and Readwise. The integrations are read-only, limited to the content the user selects, and available on every plan.
Pro adds unlimited items, chat with documents in every item view, longer and more contextual AI summaries, improved tags and connections, multilingual voice transcription, fuller suggestions and all themes.
Mindly suits Mac users who save a lot of mixed content, including students, researchers, designers, founders and writers. It is built for people who want organization handled by the software rather than by manual filing.