Anytype is a safe haven for digital collaboration: one private place to chat, craft docs, organise projects, and build shared knowledge — all without surrendering your data.
We are thrilled to introduce Anytype: a safe haven for digital collaboration.
Imagine if Notion, Slack, and Obsidian had a baby… and that baby immediately declared independence, moved to the woods, and started writing philosophy. That’s us.
Anytype is a local-first, end-to-end encrypted hub for deep thought, chaotic teamwork, and everything in between.
🌱 Why we built this
We believe everyone deserves digital independence:
Autonomy: No cloud dependencies. Your data, your rules.
Availability: Works offline (tunnels, planes, and hills with zero signal).
Adaptability: Pages, chats, and lists form an extendable system, not a folder maze.
@masump It already works like that. It even can work in a local networks without the internet.
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@pronkin_ Promising project with huge potential! And honestly already a mature project w a solid product and vibrant growing community.
What I'd love to know is whether we can expect a system wide AI integration with open source and privacy first models like Proton's Lumo AI or Mistral's models, any time soon?
We are working on something we call the AI Ally, because it is designed to be on your side, protecting your interests rather than serving someone in the cloud.
It connects to your context: your knowledge, your relationships, your workflows. It knows everything about you, and the best part is, it stays private and fully under your control.
Depending on the task, you will be able to choose between a local model, a self-hosted one you control, or a trusted cloud model. Privacy first, flexible, and shaped by your data, not someone else’s.
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@pronkin_ that's awesome! I like where this is going.
Also could you edit your message and remove the tag on me? (Didn't realize the username would be shown when tagged)
@pronkin_ There is non-beta Software that is more buggy. For me (as non developer) it works amazing every day. Thanks a lot Anton (and Team) for that amazing peace of software!
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@pronkin_ Students require an interface that matches the complications of what they’re doing with accessibility across all devices. When analyzing Anytype it felt like a lot of my time would be put into setup so I just choose to go to google keep for now. I would recommend you create specially built templates for students that let them create adaptable knowledge based that easily transition from:
HS->College/Workforce
Undergrad->Grad/Workforce
As a college student having financial management and life management would also make this amazing with calendars and tasks presented simply and easily. Currently it feels a bit overwhelming. But not as much as obsidian or logseq. And it’s not complicated for the heck of it like notion.
Finally I would add that Excalidraw is another essential learning tool to add and for larger files peer to peer is a must with the fact being that cloud gets expensive quick and many can afford to store text but videos, PDFs, images, models, and bigger is just not happening.
You’re right: setup can feel heavy today, especially for students who just want to start capturing and managing life quickly. We’re working on this now — simplifying onboarding, improving defaults, and creating purpose-built templates for students, researchers, and professionals.
Financial and life-management templates are also on our radar, along with a simpler way to surface tasks and calendars.
Excalidraw embeds are already supported, though full whiteboard functionality won’t be coming soon.
Big-file support via p2p is already in place — could you clarify if something isn’t working on your end?
Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback — it really helps shape the product.
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@pronkin_ When I started I thought P2P wasn’t in place but it is! That is amazing, this is going to be big! Thank you so much for responding also. In regard to excalidraw I was referring to a more native excalidraw experience but a whiteboard feature might be even better, it looks like you got a lot sorted out. That is great I’m really proud of what you have been able to accomplish when I first heard of anytype I had already switched back to handwritten notes but now that I’ve gotten to work with it a bit and I get a bit of a break for the winter I’m excited to go back to digital! Keep up the great work, and for anything done with AI I would strongly recommend a BYOK first approach and a subscription model with pay for usage above second. 8 dollars monthly is a great model for AI with usage above 8 dollars being purchased for another 8 dollars will meet the needs of 99% of users based on current AI prices. Look at either groq API or just use OpenRouter/vercelAI Gateway.
OpenRouter is the easiest to implement for both photo and text generation with Vercel coming in second from my experience.
Current best models from my experience are
Text Gen Low Cost - Grok 4.1 Fast
Text Gen High Cost - Gemini 3
Imagegen - Nano Banana
Good luck, my grandfather wants to invest but I don’t know if your open to that or not, he got news on it because he actually reads his emails unlike us Gen Zers.
Congrats,
Donovan
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@pronkin_@baney75 Onboarding wasn’t easy at all 2 years ago & it looks like it has not improved much today.
But my take is that no template answers people’s need better than your own.
That’s the strength of Anytype ! Not imposing you a way of thinking.
If the discovery phase was assisted, you could better understand how to use tags, collections & lists…
But I don’t believe templates would help you better.
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@pronkin_ I have really been enjoying Anytype and I want to thank you in advance for all the dedication in creating an app like this. Congratulations on staying true to making something so good, open source, and private.
I just wanted to know if you are thinking about creating some kind of integration with integration platforms like Activepieces.
Because it’s something I use a lot in Notion to automate some tasks and it would be great if I could have this type of automation in Anytype. Anyway, I don’t know if this would be possible in the app, but if it is, that would be great.
Thank you so much — really appreciate the kind words. Staying open and private is a core part of why we’re building Anytype, so hearing this means a lot to the whole team.
About integrations: yes! In fact, we just released our headless client today, which opens the door for building exactly these kinds of automations and integrations — including with platforms like Activepieces.
It’s early, but it’s the foundation we needed. Would love to see what you end up building.
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Anytype is for me as european entrepreneur one of the biggest hopes for genius european software with values. Was using Evernote, MS, Notion and now: Anytype.
I can unse it very easy for things I don't want to nerd in and can customise what's important for me.
MCP is nice.
And I use it to structure my workflows such that Anytype guides me throgh links to the pages that I need to work with next.
I share Courses with Clients I built in Anytype pages (which look super nice!).
@hannes_altmann Thank you so much, it really means a lot, especially coming from a fellow European entrepreneur.
Digital independence is something we firmly believe in, especially in the era of AI. Just look around Product Hunt — we might be the only non-AI product launched in the past few months. It’s wild to think where all this is heading if we don’t start regaining control over our digital lives.
Ideas and values matter, but UX does too. So it’s great to hear you’re using Anytype to guide your workflows and share with clients. We’ll keep working hard to live up to that hope.
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Cheers to launching!
I've been using Anytype for Android for a while and I like it.
It's well organised.
I just have one feedback; add the ability to remove Object Types not in use.
I only use Pages and Bookmarks.
I want to be able to hide everything else like I was able to in a previous version of Anytype.
@charles_ochei Thanks a lot for the kind words. Happy to hear you like it. Yes, we plan to add the ability to remove any types and objects you don’t use. Currently working on type deletion.
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I’ve been using Anytype for over 3 years. I believe deeply in digital sovereignty and the huge shift we’ve seen over the last few years towards generative AI has made that even more critical.
Anytype serves as my journal, my idea dump, my knowledge hub, a wiki for my house renovation, my business notes and product plans. With the addition of chats I’m now able to collaborate knowing that everything discussed remains private and encrypted.
The project is peerless and invaluable.
I look forward to the future developments and success of Anytype!
@erindale Thank you for being with us on this journey, 3 years is no small thing. We’re glad Anytype could become your all-in-one tool, and even more so now with chats. Digital sovereignty has never felt more urgent, and your support means the world as we keep building toward it.
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I've been using Anytype for over a year, slowly migrating over from other services/apps wherever it makes sense. The chats are really helping with pulling other people into it. Being able to manage the bulk of the space, then link things into the chat as needed, makes it much easier to get others into using it.
Anytype has grown and changed quite a bit since I first tried it, and I'm excited to watch more of their plans take shape and get implemented. There are still important features missing, and some rough edges to be smoothed down or redone, but they are aware of that and are working hard and methodically to improve things. I encourage anyone to give it a try. There is a learning curve to be able to make effective use of everything, but they are working on the onboarding and tutorials to help with that.
To the Anytype team, keep up the good work! As hard as it is, I'll be patient, just know that I am very eager for some of the features slated for the next few months.
@opalmonkey Thanks a lot for sticking with us and bringing others in. Glad to hear chats are useful — they’ve been a big focus lately. Still a lot to improve, but we’re getting there step by step. Really appreciate your patience and support!
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I like your promo video a lot and the intention behind Anytype to be a privacy-friendly information hub.
But to be honest, you don't explain what your new "Anytype Chats" is. I only have a feeling it's somehow AI related due to you mentioning MCP, but there's no explanation. 🤔
@kenny_s1 Glad it helped! We were hoping it would make the vision click. Thanks for watching and being here with us.
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Congratulations on this launch.
I have been following the Anytype project for a while and using it on and off, and the app has really improved in the last few months.
What I am missing today is more robust task management, with rollups and automatic backlinks. I was thinking about this yesterday when I saw the great task update from Capacities.
Otherwise, it's more overall quality-of-life features that I would like to see, like a better delete option when we want to remove a page with a lot of embedded content.
This launch is the result of months of hard work and countless contributions from everyone involved — engineers, designers, and our amazing community members who've been testing and giving feedback along the way.
Don't miss out: grab a membership with our special 50% off launch discount!
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Best candidate for replacing Notion. @pronkin_ , how do you see advantages of Anytype over Obsidian ?
@kyrylo_karalyus Thank you for the question! Obsidian is a great product, but it’s focused on personal use with Markdown as the main format.
Anytype is built for collaboration: with a block-based editor as just one of several formats. With this launch, we’re introducing Chats, making it even more collaborative — all without compromising on privacy or ownership.
Unlike Obsidian, syncing in Anytype is free out of the box and fully peer-to-peer: no subscription required. Our mobile apps are fully native and feel smooth.
And of course — aesthetics matter to us. We care deeply about visual design and creating a space that feels good to be in.
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Anytype is awesome! It is bit complete and take some time to understand and organize, but once setup, it is works really well. I have been using it for 2+ years. There are still bunch of features missing. But what Anytype provides (Great Security + Blend of Notion+Obsidian+Craft+ Secure Messaging ) no other app is able to provide it. I think it has a lot of potential. I am super excited about it's future.
@osho_tolle Thanks a lot for the kind words and for being with us for so long. We know it takes time to set up, but glad it’s working well for you. Still a lot to build — but we’re excited too!
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👋 Hello Product Hunt!
We are thrilled to introduce Anytype: a safe haven for digital collaboration.
Imagine if Notion, Slack, and Obsidian had a baby… and that baby immediately declared independence, moved to the woods, and started writing philosophy. That’s us.
Anytype is a local-first, end-to-end encrypted hub for deep thought, chaotic teamwork, and everything in between.
🌱 Why we built this
We believe everyone deserves digital independence:
Autonomy: No cloud dependencies. Your data, your rules.
Availability: Works offline (tunnels, planes, and hills with zero signal).
Adaptability: Pages, chats, and lists form an extendable system, not a folder maze.
🧭 What you can do
Write & Organize: Pages, tables, kanban, calendars.
Chat in Context: Real-time messaging linked to docs. No more Slack-tab roulette.
Run Anywhere: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android.
🧱 For Devs & Power Users
API + Dev Portal: Build extensions, automations and agents.
MCP Protocol: Secure contextual access for background processes.
No Lock-in: Source-available code, portable data, easy export.
⚠️ The Beta Disclaimer
Let’s keep it real: it’s buggy, quirky, sometimes wild.
But it will never spy on you — and that already makes it different.
Tell us: What’s the one feature that would make you switch to Anytype?
We’ll be in the comments all day.
@pronkin_ Any plans for collaborative editing while offline, like merging changes later?
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@masump It already works like that. It even can work in a local networks without the internet.
@pronkin_ Promising project with huge potential! And honestly already a mature project w a solid product and vibrant growing community.
What I'd love to know is whether we can expect a system wide AI integration with open source and privacy first models like Proton's Lumo AI or Mistral's models, any time soon?
Anytype
We are working on something we call the AI Ally, because it is designed to be on your side, protecting your interests rather than serving someone in the cloud.
It connects to your context: your knowledge, your relationships, your workflows. It knows everything about you, and the best part is, it stays private and fully under your control.
Depending on the task, you will be able to choose between a local model, a self-hosted one you control, or a trusted cloud model. Privacy first, flexible, and shaped by your data, not someone else’s.
@pronkin_ that's awesome! I like where this is going.
Also could you edit your message and remove the tag on me? (Didn't realize the username would be shown when tagged)
@pronkin_ That looks great!
@pronkin_ There is non-beta Software that is more buggy. For me (as non developer) it works amazing every day. Thanks a lot Anton (and Team) for that amazing peace of software!
@pronkin_ Students require an interface that matches the complications of what they’re doing with accessibility across all devices. When analyzing Anytype it felt like a lot of my time would be put into setup so I just choose to go to google keep for now. I would recommend you create specially built templates for students that let them create adaptable knowledge based that easily transition from:
HS->College/Workforce
Undergrad->Grad/Workforce
As a college student having financial management and life management would also make this amazing with calendars and tasks presented simply and easily. Currently it feels a bit overwhelming. But not as much as obsidian or logseq. And it’s not complicated for the heck of it like notion.
Finally I would add that Excalidraw is another essential learning tool to add and for larger files peer to peer is a must with the fact being that cloud gets expensive quick and many can afford to store text but videos, PDFs, images, models, and bigger is just not happening.
Thanks Man!
@pronkin_ appreciate it
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Thank you — this is super helpful to read.
You’re right: setup can feel heavy today, especially for students who just want to start capturing and managing life quickly. We’re working on this now — simplifying onboarding, improving defaults, and creating purpose-built templates for students, researchers, and professionals.
Financial and life-management templates are also on our radar, along with a simpler way to surface tasks and calendars.
Excalidraw embeds are already supported, though full whiteboard functionality won’t be coming soon.
Big-file support via p2p is already in place — could you clarify if something isn’t working on your end?
Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback — it really helps shape the product.
@pronkin_ When I started I thought P2P wasn’t in place but it is! That is amazing, this is going to be big! Thank you so much for responding also. In regard to excalidraw I was referring to a more native excalidraw experience but a whiteboard feature might be even better, it looks like you got a lot sorted out. That is great I’m really proud of what you have been able to accomplish when I first heard of anytype I had already switched back to handwritten notes but now that I’ve gotten to work with it a bit and I get a bit of a break for the winter I’m excited to go back to digital! Keep up the great work, and for anything done with AI I would strongly recommend a BYOK first approach and a subscription model with pay for usage above second. 8 dollars monthly is a great model for AI with usage above 8 dollars being purchased for another 8 dollars will meet the needs of 99% of users based on current AI prices. Look at either groq API or just use OpenRouter/vercelAI Gateway.
OpenRouter is the easiest to implement for both photo and text generation with Vercel coming in second from my experience.
Current best models from my experience are
Text Gen Low Cost - Grok 4.1 Fast
Text Gen High Cost - Gemini 3
Imagegen - Nano Banana
Good luck, my grandfather wants to invest but I don’t know if your open to that or not, he got news on it because he actually reads his emails unlike us Gen Zers.
Congrats,
Donovan
@pronkin_ @baney75 Onboarding wasn’t easy at all 2 years ago & it looks like it has not improved much today.
But my take is that no template answers people’s need better than your own.
That’s the strength of Anytype ! Not imposing you a way of thinking.
If the discovery phase was assisted, you could better understand how to use tags, collections & lists…
But I don’t believe templates would help you better.
@pronkin_ I have really been enjoying Anytype and I want to thank you in advance for all the dedication in creating an app like this. Congratulations on staying true to making something so good, open source, and private.
I just wanted to know if you are thinking about creating some kind of integration with integration platforms like Activepieces.
Because it’s something I use a lot in Notion to automate some tasks and it would be great if I could have this type of automation in Anytype. Anyway, I don’t know if this would be possible in the app, but if it is, that would be great.
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Thank you so much — really appreciate the kind words. Staying open and private is a core part of why we’re building Anytype, so hearing this means a lot to the whole team.
About integrations: yes! In fact, we just released our headless client today, which opens the door for building exactly these kinds of automations and integrations — including with platforms like Activepieces.
It’s early, but it’s the foundation we needed. Would love to see what you end up building.
Anytype is for me as european entrepreneur one of the biggest hopes for genius european software with values.
Was using Evernote, MS, Notion and now: Anytype.
I can unse it very easy for things I don't want to nerd in and can customise what's important for me.
MCP is nice.
And I use it to structure my workflows such that Anytype guides me throgh links to the pages that I need to work with next.
I share Courses with Clients I built in Anytype pages (which look super nice!).
Hope you make it to the top!
Anytype
@hannes_altmann Thank you so much, it really means a lot, especially coming from a fellow European entrepreneur.
Digital independence is something we firmly believe in, especially in the era of AI. Just look around Product Hunt — we might be the only non-AI product launched in the past few months. It’s wild to think where all this is heading if we don’t start regaining control over our digital lives.
Ideas and values matter, but UX does too. So it’s great to hear you’re using Anytype to guide your workflows and share with clients. We’ll keep working hard to live up to that hope.
Cheers to launching!
I've been using Anytype for Android for a while and I like it.
It's well organised.
I just have one feedback; add the ability to remove Object Types not in use.
I only use Pages and Bookmarks.
I want to be able to hide everything else like I was able to in a previous version of Anytype.
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@charles_ochei Thanks a lot for the kind words. Happy to hear you like it. Yes, we plan to add the ability to remove any types and objects you don’t use. Currently working on type deletion.
I’ve been using Anytype for over 3 years. I believe deeply in digital sovereignty and the huge shift we’ve seen over the last few years towards generative AI has made that even more critical.
Anytype serves as my journal, my idea dump, my knowledge hub, a wiki for my house renovation, my business notes and product plans. With the addition of chats I’m now able to collaborate knowing that everything discussed remains private and encrypted.
The project is peerless and invaluable.
I look forward to the future developments and success of Anytype!
Anytype
@erindale Thank you for being with us on this journey, 3 years is no small thing. We’re glad Anytype could become your all-in-one tool, and even more so now with chats. Digital sovereignty has never felt more urgent, and your support means the world as we keep building toward it.
I've been using Anytype for over a year, slowly migrating over from other services/apps wherever it makes sense. The chats are really helping with pulling other people into it. Being able to manage the bulk of the space, then link things into the chat as needed, makes it much easier to get others into using it.
Anytype has grown and changed quite a bit since I first tried it, and I'm excited to watch more of their plans take shape and get implemented. There are still important features missing, and some rough edges to be smoothed down or redone, but they are aware of that and are working hard and methodically to improve things. I encourage anyone to give it a try. There is a learning curve to be able to make effective use of everything, but they are working on the onboarding and tutorials to help with that.
To the Anytype team, keep up the good work! As hard as it is, I'll be patient, just know that I am very eager for some of the features slated for the next few months.
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@opalmonkey Thanks a lot for sticking with us and bringing others in. Glad to hear chats are useful — they’ve been a big focus lately. Still a lot to improve, but we’re getting there step by step. Really appreciate your patience and support!
I like your promo video a lot and the intention behind Anytype to be a privacy-friendly information hub.
But to be honest, you don't explain what your new "Anytype Chats" is. I only have a feeling it's somehow AI related due to you mentioning MCP, but there's no explanation. 🤔
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@drdanielbender Oh, thank you! Seems we weren’t clear enough on that point — we hoped the “Notion + Slack” line would hint at it, but let me explain:
You can create group chats like in any messenger — but here, you can also work on docs, lists, and notes right inside the chat.
You can create Spaces (simplified version of slack workspaces) with multiple chats — all in a multi-format environment.
All of this runs on our own protocol, fully p2p and encrypted — no one can disconnect you or see inside.
Here’s my slightly cringy demo video that shows it better: https://chats.anytype.io
@pronkin_ Thanks for clarification and sharing a link to the video. Now it all makes sense. All the best for the launch!
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Glad it made sense! Appreciate the support, launch vibes on! 🚀
@drdanielbender @pronkin_ The video in https://chats.anytype.io explained chats and how it plays into the bigger space together with documents very well! Thanks for linking it for us here
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@kenny_s1 Glad it helped! We were hoping it would make the vision click. Thanks for watching and being here with us.
Congratulations on this launch.
I have been following the Anytype project for a while and using it on and off, and the app has really improved in the last few months.
What I am missing today is more robust task management, with rollups and automatic backlinks. I was thinking about this yesterday when I saw the great task update from Capacities.
Otherwise, it's more overall quality-of-life features that I would like to see, like a better delete option when we want to remove a page with a lot of embedded content.
Keep up the good work!
Anytype
@emaresom Thank you! Grinding days and nights in our bunker :)
Really good point about rollups. We plan to address that in the List 2.0 project, starting in January.
Better deletion (including hierarchy deletion) and copying with hierarchy are already in the works.
Would love to hear more of your thoughts. You are very welcome to join our community chat inside Anytype.
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Huge congrats to the team on shipping this! 🚀
This launch is the result of months of hard work and countless contributions from everyone involved — engineers, designers, and our amazing community members who've been testing and giving feedback along the way.
Don't miss out: grab a membership with our special 50% off launch discount!
Best candidate for replacing Notion. @pronkin_ , how do you see advantages of Anytype over Obsidian ?
Anytype
@kyrylo_karalyus Thank you for the question! Obsidian is a great product, but it’s focused on personal use with Markdown as the main format.
Anytype is built for collaboration: with a block-based editor as just one of several formats. With this launch, we’re introducing Chats, making it even more collaborative — all without compromising on privacy or ownership.
Unlike Obsidian, syncing in Anytype is free out of the box and fully peer-to-peer: no subscription required. Our mobile apps are fully native and feel smooth.
And of course — aesthetics matter to us. We care deeply about visual design and creating a space that feels good to be in.
Anytype is awesome! It is bit complete and take some time to understand and organize, but once setup, it is works really well. I have been using it for 2+ years. There are still bunch of features missing. But what Anytype provides (Great Security + Blend of Notion+Obsidian+Craft+ Secure Messaging ) no other app is able to provide it. I think it has a lot of potential. I am super excited about it's future.
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@osho_tolle Thanks a lot for the kind words and for being with us for so long. We know it takes time to set up, but glad it’s working well for you. Still a lot to build — but we’re excited too!