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DEVONthink vs Zenkit

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When comparing DEVONthink vs Zenkit, the Slant community recommends Zenkit for most people. In the question“What are the best personal Knowledge Base apps?” Zenkit is ranked 10th while DEVONthink is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Zenkit is:

Easy to use and easily understandable for everyone.

Specs

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APIYes

CollaborativeYes

Dark ThemeYes

In App PurchaseYes

LanguagesEnglish, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Russian

Markdown supportYes

Multiple AccountsYes

Offline accessYes

Open SourceOnly as Linux Snap

PlatformsWeb, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone

RemindersYes

SearchYes

Supported CalendarsGoogle Calendar - Outlook & Apple coming soon

SwimlanesYes

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Pros

Pro
Can store any file type

File types containing text are indexed.

Pro
Very flexible

An extensive feature set makes it easy to adapt to your work flow.

Pro
Completely offline

Pro
Full text search

Pro
Webpage Clipper

A flexible web clipper can add contents of any web page to DevonThink.

Pro
Sync

Sync between different macs and/or ios devices is fast, safe and easy. You can sync via iCloud, Dropbox, WebDAV or WiFi.

Pro
Paperless office functions available in PRO Office version

Includes processing of scanned documents, OCR etc.
The OCR function is based on FineReader and is probably the best one on the market.

Pro
One-time purchase vs monthly subscription.

Pro
Powerful and simple to use tool with a clean design

Easy to use and easily understandable for everyone.

Pro
Many important data views

Data views include Mind-Map, Kanban-Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Calendar. Views can be switched easily.

Pro
Native apps

Native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Cons

Con
Only runs on Macs, iPoneOS, iPadOS & Web

It does not run on Windows, Android, and Linux.

Con
Stores in a proprietary format

It stores the whole database in a proprietary file package, that you cannot easily access from another app or from the Finder. Considering you might be classifying a huge quantity of files there, it is quite problematic if you want to interact with this data from other applications.

Con
Costs US$79.95 for just the Personal version

One-time purchase instead of monthly subscription.

Con
Very limited automation

While the marketing claims are about an intelligent document manager, it actually does not offer many automation features, such as automatic classification, tagging and renaming of the files. It's much more like an extended file explorer.