A library for everything
you meant to come back to.
Native to Apple. AI tags every save. Find anything by what it means. Read everything in one place.
Eric Raymond argues that open-source development thrives on chaotic public iteration rather than careful private planning.
He builds the case through fetchmail — how releasing early, listening to users, and trusting parallel debugging yielded a better design than top-down work would have.
The piece is worth keeping because the argument still applies far beyond software: anywhere a community of motivated readers is willing to point at problems, the bazaar beats the cathedral.
You saved it.
You forgot you saved it.
Browser bookmarks search by title. Read-later apps stack into a pile. Pocket closed in October 2025. Notabe is what comes next.
One keystroke in.
One sentence out.
Tag
Three suggestions per save. Accept, edit, ignore. The vocabulary stays yours — nothing is auto-applied.
A library that thinks
about what's in it.
No assistant, no chatbot, no copilot. Notabe knows the library and the saves in it — and acts like it does.
Reader v2
Typography control, themes, inline highlights with notes and colors. Reading position remembered per article. Built like Bear, native like Reeder.
Auto-tagging on every save
Every save gets auto-tagged — three to five tags drawn from the page itself. Free and Pro. No setup, no menu.
Semantic search
Search by what you remember — not the exact words. “That article about pricing” actually finds it. Embeddings, not keywords.
Apple-native — with browser save
Real Swift + SwiftUI. Liquid Glass on iOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe. iCloud private sync. Sign in with Apple. Safari extension bundled inside the Mac app — auto-signed-in via shared Keychain. Chrome (Manifest V3) extension at launch. No Electron, no web wrapper.
Markdown export, always
Export any bookmark, collection, or your whole library to Markdown. Pipe straight into Obsidian, Bear, Drafts, or version control. Your data is yours.
Private by design
Page content cached for 24 hours, then deleted. AI calls log only a prompt hash — never the prompt itself. Domain blocklist built in. iCloud private database, not Notabe's servers.
Built on Apple's stack.
Not a wrapper. Not a port.
SwiftUI on Mac and iPhone. Liquid Glass throughout. SwiftData for the library, CloudKit for sync, Sign in with Apple for identity. The way Apple builds its own apps.
Liquid Glass interface
Toolbar, sidebar, inspector — every navigation surface uses the native iOS 26 / macOS 26 material. Translucent, depth-aware, alive.
SwiftUI on every device
Same Swift codebase on Mac and iPhone. SwiftData for the library, async/await for the saves. No Electron, no React Native — the fastest path Apple's own engineers take.
Sign in with Apple
One tap. Anonymized email. No password. Same account for Mac, iPhone, and the Safari extension.
Apple In-App Purchase
Subscriptions through Apple. Family Sharing supported. One tap to cancel — no retention emails, no chase.
CloudKit sync
End-to-end through Apple's identity stack. Your library follows your Apple ID. No separate sync server, no extra password.
The page text
is cached for 24 hours.
Then dropped.
Notabe fetches a page once, generates a summary and a vector embedding, and deletes the cached page text 24 hours later. Embeddings and summaries persist as part of your bookmark. AI processing happens at Google (Gemini) and Anthropic (Claude) under their commercial terms — they don't keep your inputs, and we don't opt into training.
What you save is yours.
We're just the librarian.
Save.Find.Remember.
Three verbs. One library. Across Mac and iPhone.
What it's not.
Five things Notabe refuses to be. The bookmark category is full of them. We picked a different shape.
Apple-native,
end to end.
Mac for the long sessions — read, tag, sort, sift. iPhone for the moment of saving and the quiet revisit. One Apple ID, one library.
Where you actually read.
Three-pane library window. Safari extension bundled. Keyboard-first navigation, full-text and semantic search, drag-to-collection. Built in SwiftUI for Apple Silicon.
The companion in your pocket.
Save, edit, organize anywhere — the iPhone app ships with the macOS app, same feature set.
Pay for the inference,
not the chrome.
Free is a real library with a taste of the AI. Pro turns on everything.
- Import your whole library — no limit
- Auto-tagging on every save
- 5 AI summaries per month
- Manual highlights, notes & tags
- iCloud sync across Mac and iPhone
- Everything in Free, unlimited
- Semantic search by meaning
- Unlimited AI summaries
- AI highlights & similar bookmarks
- AI collection suggestions
- Ask your library
- Tag normalization (near-duplicate tags clustered)
- Daily resurfacing — one forgotten bookmark, brought back each morning
The native, AI-organized
place for your library.
Anybox is native but has no AI. Raindrop is the spreadsheet of bookmarking. mymind is web-first. Pocket is gone. Notabe is the one Apple-native library that thinks about what's in it.
| Notabe | Anybox | Raindrop | mymind | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple-native (Swift/SwiftUI) | — | — | — | ||
| Safari + Chrome extensions | — | ||||
| AI tagging + semantic search | — | — | — | ||
| Reader v2 with highlights | — | — | — | — | |
| Markdown export | — | — | — | ||
| iCloud private sync | — | — | — | ||
| Starts at | Free / $9.99 mo | $30/yr | $33/yr | $5.50/mo | — |
Competitor pricing reflects publicly listed plans as of May 2026. Notabe is free, with Pro at $9.99/mo · $59.99/yr.
Ten answers, in full.
A library, not a database.
On the Apple device you already have.
Native Mac. Native iPhone. One Apple ID, one library. Start free, or turn on every AI feature with Pro at $9.99/mo.
Free for the first 100 · Cancel anytime · Apple In-App Purchase