What is a good alternative to mymind?

mymind's home page describes one private place for notes, bookmarks, inspiration, articles and images, where you do not file, label or tag anything. AI recognizes whether a link is an article, a product, a book or a recipe, Smart Spaces sort new saves by rules you set, and you can search by color, keyword, brand or date.

The reasons to switch are usually narrower than the app itself. Some people want a free plan for a large pile of bookmarks. Some want boards that friends or a class can see and add to, which mymind, built as a private place, does not set out to offer. Some want their notes as files on their own disk. And a growing group saves mostly short videos with advice in them, finds them again as cards, and still never learns what was in them. Each of those needs points to a different app below.

scrollandlearn covers one kind of save in depth: the TikTok, Reel, YouTube video or text post you kept because it explained how to do something. You paste the link or send it from your phone, and the app reads the post. For a TikTok, Reel or Facebook video it works from what is said, for a YouTube video from its captions, and for posts on X, Threads, Reddit, Bluesky and LinkedIn from their text; on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and LinkedIn it also reads the words printed on slides. A minute or so later you have a lesson with a one-line core idea, key points, a transcript for videos and Try this when the post suggests something to do. Here is an example of the lesson a YouTube video about hooks becomes.

The lesson goes into a topic the app names after what you keep saving, and Today's quiz asks about it on a spaced schedule. Forgot brings a lesson back tomorrow and starts it over, Kind of in 4 days, Knew it in 14 days, then 35, 88 and 219 days, then a year. Each topic shows a knowledge score, so you can tell which saves actually stuck. Add also takes a note, a quote, a photo with printed text, a voice memo or a video file up to 50 MB.

Photos work much as they do in mymind: the printed words are read, and a photo with 300 or more characters of text becomes a lesson, while any other photo is kept as an image card with a short title and up to six tags written for you. The photo itself is never described. What a mymind user will miss: there are no moodboards and no search by color or brand. A pasted link works for posts from the 15+ platforms and LinkedIn articles; other web articles go in through the browser extension, in Firefox today and soon in other browsers. There is no native app, no import of old saves and no shared library. Export lessons gives you the lessons as Markdown, CSV or JSON.

Raindrop.io is the closest thing to a classic bookmark manager on this list, and it is generous for free: unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights and devices, import and export, sharing and collaboration, and 100 MB of uploads a month. It has extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge and apps for Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android. Pro adds full-text search (its pages say this covers saved pages and the spoken words of YouTube videos), permanent copies of pages in case the original disappears, reminders, a duplicate and broken link finder, daily backups and an AI Assistant.

The honest limit for a mymind user: you sort it. Collections and tags are yours to keep tidy, and a library of thousands of links looks like a list of links, not a wall of pictures.

Are.na calls itself a place to save content, build collections over time and connect ideas, privately or with others. Everything you add is a block (an image, a piece of text, a link, an attachment or an embed), and blocks live in channels you can open to anyone, keep for collaborators or make private. The same block can sit in several channels, and you can reuse what other people saved, so it works well for designers, students and researchers who collect references for a project that runs for months.

The limit: nothing sorts itself. You decide which channel each block goes into, and the free Guest plan stops at 200 blocks, which a habit of saving fills quickly. Full text for links and articles is part of Premium.

If your mymind is full of articles you never finished, Reader is built for that backlog. It is a read-later app with highlighting, and it also takes your own ebook files, newsletters and RSS feeds, turns hard-to-read X threads into long-form articles and plays YouTube videos with a transcript you can highlight. Ghostreader, its AI helper, answers questions about what you read and defines terms. Your highlights then come back in Readwise's Daily Review, by email and in the app. There are apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows and extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

The limits: Reader comes only with the full Readwise plan, not with Lite, and it is a reading tool first, so it suits text more than images or moodboards. As of 22 October 2026, its pages describe articles, newsletters, feeds, ebooks, X threads and YouTube as what it reads, and they do not mention TikTok or Instagram.

Many mymind users first tried to copy their Instagram saves or X bookmarks across by hand. Dewey does that pulling for you. It syncs bookmarks from connected accounts on X and Bluesky, and its pages list LinkedIn, Threads, Truth Social, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and Substack as well, into one dashboard with folders and tags. Dewey AI suggests tags in bulk from keywords you give it, and you approve them before they apply. Your library can go out as CSV or a Google Sheet, or sync to a Notion database.

The limits: it keeps each post as the post, with its text and media, and does not write anything up for you. On the Free plan syncing is manual and you connect one account; automatic syncing and unlimited accounts come with Pro.

Obsidian is the opposite of mymind in temperament. It stores notes as plain text Markdown files on your device, readable offline and in any editor, and its pages say no one else can read them, not even the company. You link notes to each other, see the links in a graph and lay ideas out on Canvas, and thousands of plugins and themes reshape the app. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, and the free Web Clipper has extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge and several other browsers.

The limit: Obsidian asks for the writing that mymind spares you. A saved image or video becomes useful there once you write a note about it, and that step is entirely yours.

• Moodboards and visual search. Search by color or brand across a wall of images is the heart of mymind.
• Articles kept whole. Reading Mode and Article Backup on Mastermind store saved articles in full, even if the source is deleted later. Reader is built around reading them; scrollandlearn reads LinkedIn articles from a link and other articles through its browser extension, in Firefox today.
• Big video files. Mastermind takes uploads of up to 500 MB, ten times the 50 MB scrollandlearn accepts.
• Apps everywhere. mymind lists apps for iPhone, Android and macOS and extensions for Chrome, Edge and Safari.

• Count what you saved last month. Mostly links to pages: Raindrop.io. Mostly images and references for a project: Are.na, or stay with mymind. Mostly articles: Readwise Reader. Mostly TikToks, Reels and YouTube videos with advice: scrollandlearn.
• Decide whether others should see it. Are.na and Raindrop.io let you share collections. mymind and scrollandlearn are built as private places, and Obsidian keeps notes on your device unless you pay for Publish.
• Decide who does the sorting. mymind and scrollandlearn sort for you. The other four give you the tools and leave the system to you.
• Ask what happens a month later. Readwise brings highlights back in a daily review and scrollandlearn asks you questions on a schedule; the rest wait until you search.
• Check your backlog. Dewey is the one that pulls in the bookmarks you already made on each network; scrollandlearn starts from the next post you send it.

You do not have to pick only one. A common split is mymind or Are.na for images, Reader for articles and scrollandlearn for the videos you want to learn from. None of them sync with each other, so each keeps its own copy.