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.
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Love Anytype! Its great place to store notes for classes, and document those things you only do once year and always forget later.
Not sure if the team is answering question here but, if so, I'd love to know if there is a plan to add more header types? There is 4 already and that's probably enough for more but I side nav bar and would like more headers to make better use of it.
@redrabbit Thanks for being with us! No plans to add more heading levels for now, but we’re planning a full editor rework next year — collapsible headers and more flexibility might come as part of that.
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Brilliant app!
My use case is to manage information about team members of my unit, so I wanted it to be private and hosted on my laptop. Two things that I'm missing: 1. "Hidden data" which might be seen only with a password/fingerprint lock (currently, I'm using toggle to hide such data). 2. Ability to switch the view of linked notes (right now the 'card preview' just pulls content from a note, showing it as not formatted text, so it looks messy)
But overall - really great app!
To be honest, I'm using it with a free plan, I just don't need any of the paid features, but I would rather pay something like $1 instead of a free option.
Hidden data is a very interesting request. We will discuss it with the team and think how to do it right.
Good point about card previews. Not a priority right now, but it will be solved for sure.
And thank you for the note about pricing.
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Congrats on the launch! I’ve been following Anytype since the early beta, and it’s really inspiring to see how you’ve stayed true to the local-first and privacy-first vision. It’s rare to see a tool that treats autonomy and digital independence as a real philosophy, not just a feature. The mix of notes, docs, and chats, all encrypted and running peer to peer, really feels like the future of collaboration. Excited to see how the AI Ally idea grows. Keep going strong!
We couldn’t be more excited. AI Ally is really a beast
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Hey team, huge congrats on the launch, and thank you for building Anytype. This is actually the first time I’ve ever left a Product Hunt review, and I wanted it to be for something that genuinely matters to me.
I originally discovered Anytype by accident while exploring what Notion could do. I honestly didn’t expect that something like this existed: a local-first, privacy-first tool that still looks and feels this good. Your website, your app, the whole UI/UX are incredibly polished for a product with such a serious core value like encryption and data ownership. I’ve been using Anytype for almost a year now, and it really feels like you’ve found your niche and a healthy way to monetize it without compromising on your principles. I’m glad more people are finally going to hear about you.
For me, Anytype became an encrypted layer on my Mac where I can keep the things that are truly sensitive or just deeply personal — not only secret data, but thoughts and notes I don’t want anyone else to see. Recently I was diagnosed with ADHD, and it felt like nothing could really contain or structure how chaotic my brain is. Anytype is the first place that actually works for that. I dump ideas, messy thoughts, private reflections there, and I can fully trust that they’re safe.
I haven’t used the new chat feature heavily yet because inviting others into a new app always has some friction, but I love the direction you’re going in. Extending the same privacy-first philosophy to communication makes so much sense. I just wanted you to know there are people out here whose lives are genuinely better because you decided to build this.
Thanks for creating something I honestly can’t imagine living without now.
@hdhandle Wow. Thank you so much for this — it really moved us.
Hearing that Anytype has become a safe space for your thoughts and life, especially in such a personal context, means more than we can put into words. It’s exactly why we started building it.
We’re honored to be your first Product Hunt review. We’ll keep doing our best to make sure Anytype stays true to its values — private, local, yours.
Sending gratitude from the whole team.
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I just checked when I created my very first note in my very first Anytype Space… turns out it was back in October 2021 😇 What a ride it has been ever since! Huge congratulations to the Anytype team for building such a remarkable piece of software. If Anytype didn’t exist, someone would have to invent it! 👍💪
Over nearly four years of using Anytype, I gradually replaced all my other tools and went all-in with my notes, knowledge, and life management in 2022. I’ve tried almost everything OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Logseq, Trello, Todoist, Things, Roam, Obsidian, Tana, Capacities, but no tool ever stuck with me the way Anytype did. It became my go-to place for everything I need to organize in my life. I use it together with my wife, at work, in my own business, with other family members, and in every area it has proven to be incredibly useful. And having now Chat inside this tool just makes it even more powerful!
What I like most about Anytype:
local first --> incredibly fast, offline use
object oriented approach (everything as an object)
no one will ever be able to read my data on any server
Beautiful UI, I love the widgets and that I can fully customize the sidebar
Raycast interface --> as a heavy keyboard user, nearly everything is accessible without ever touching my mouse
shared spaces
local network sync capability --> I use it at work, where I have no internet connection and just a wifi-router, works like a charm
and much more!
It’s a joy to see the hard work the Anytype team puts into this product, and it keeps getting better with every update. I'm glad to be part of your journey. So keep on rocking, Anytypers! 💕🥳 Looking forward to every new release ✌️
@siousu Wow, thanks for this. Means a lot that you’ve been with us since 2021. Amazing to hear how deeply Anytype fits into your life — work, family, business, all of it.
You nailed what we’re building for: local-first speed, full control, and real collaboration. Glad chats made it even better.
We’ll keep shipping. Grateful to have you with us.
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My mind is now thinking how a decentralized baby looks 😅
Love the angle, was just starting off with obsidian and this may be a closer fit for the founder archetype
@jalcantara Please let me know how it goes, and if anything is missing — happy to assist.
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I've been using your software for around a year now. Initially I experimented with it, but it didn't quite suit my needs. Now though, I find myself doing a lot of writing and I'm building a personal knowledge database, and the changes you've made encouraged me to delve a bit deeper about 4 or 5 months ago. I now use it everyday for a number of functions. Thank you, this is a fantastic piece of software. Good luck for the future.
It means a lot to hear that the recent changes helped you come back and build your knowledge base with Anytype. We’ve been working hard to make writing and everyday use feel smoother, and messages like yours keep us going.
If you ever have ideas or things you’d like to see improved, we’re always here to listen.
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Only started using Anytype in this last week but am really loving it, and especially how it also does P2P sync locally. It also has a generous free tier, and I love the bulk import/export with Markdown. It did a great job of importing my 1,200 plus notes in from Joplin Notes.
Hoping though that we will still see:
Find and Replace
Linking to blocks in same Page or in other pages
There is otherwise really nothing else that I miss in Anytype.
Offline collaboration is already quite good when people edit the same page. The only tricky part is when two people edit the same block at the same time. In that case we use a simple rule where the last write wins.
The nice thing is that you always have full history, so you can revert any change if the conflict did not resolve the way you wanted.
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Currently i am using notion + teams for my startup and I'd love to consolidate into a single app. Quick question: Can I set up an automated marketing metrics dashboard that syncs live data from socials into Anytype, similar to how n8n integrate with Notion?
@iamrajanrk We’re opening up the Headless Client (CLI) later today, which allows for all kinds of integrations. So yes, you can use something like n8n to sync live data into Anytype.
At the moment, it’s mostly accessible for people with an engineering background, but over time it will become much easier to set up directly in the app.
If you’re considering using Anytype for your startup, we’d be happy to assist. Feel free to DM me inside Anytype via this link.
A command-line interface for interacting with Anytype. This CLI embeds anytype-heart as the server, making it a complete, self-contained solution for developers to work with a headless Anytype instance.
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Love Anytype! Its great place to store notes for classes, and document those things you only do once year and always forget later.
Not sure if the team is answering question here but, if so, I'd love to know if there is a plan to add more header types? There is 4 already and that's probably enough for more but I side nav bar and would like more headers to make better use of it.
Anytype
@redrabbit Thanks for being with us! No plans to add more heading levels for now, but we’re planning a full editor rework next year — collapsible headers and more flexibility might come as part of that.
Brilliant app!
My use case is to manage information about team members of my unit, so I wanted it to be private and hosted on my laptop. Two things that I'm missing:
1. "Hidden data" which might be seen only with a password/fingerprint lock (currently, I'm using toggle to hide such data).
2. Ability to switch the view of linked notes (right now the 'card preview' just pulls content from a note, showing it as not formatted text, so it looks messy)
But overall - really great app!
To be honest, I'm using it with a free plan, I just don't need any of the paid features, but I would rather pay something like $1 instead of a free option.
Anytype
@denis_ryaboshtanov Thank you!
Hidden data is a very interesting request. We will discuss it with the team and think how to do it right.
Good point about card previews. Not a priority right now, but it will be solved for sure.
And thank you for the note about pricing.
Congrats on the launch!
I’ve been following Anytype since the early beta, and it’s really inspiring to see how you’ve stayed true to the local-first and privacy-first vision. It’s rare to see a tool that treats autonomy and digital independence as a real philosophy, not just a feature.
The mix of notes, docs, and chats, all encrypted and running peer to peer, really feels like the future of collaboration. Excited to see how the AI Ally idea grows. Keep going strong!
Anytype
Thank you!
We couldn’t be more excited. AI Ally is really a beast
Hey team, huge congrats on the launch, and thank you for building Anytype. This is actually the first time I’ve ever left a Product Hunt review, and I wanted it to be for something that genuinely matters to me.
I originally discovered Anytype by accident while exploring what Notion could do. I honestly didn’t expect that something like this existed: a local-first, privacy-first tool that still looks and feels this good. Your website, your app, the whole UI/UX are incredibly polished for a product with such a serious core value like encryption and data ownership. I’ve been using Anytype for almost a year now, and it really feels like you’ve found your niche and a healthy way to monetize it without compromising on your principles. I’m glad more people are finally going to hear about you.
For me, Anytype became an encrypted layer on my Mac where I can keep the things that are truly sensitive or just deeply personal — not only secret data, but thoughts and notes I don’t want anyone else to see. Recently I was diagnosed with ADHD, and it felt like nothing could really contain or structure how chaotic my brain is. Anytype is the first place that actually works for that. I dump ideas, messy thoughts, private reflections there, and I can fully trust that they’re safe.
I haven’t used the new chat feature heavily yet because inviting others into a new app always has some friction, but I love the direction you’re going in. Extending the same privacy-first philosophy to communication makes so much sense. I just wanted you to know there are people out here whose lives are genuinely better because you decided to build this.
Thanks for creating something I honestly can’t imagine living without now.
Anytype
@hdhandle Wow. Thank you so much for this — it really moved us.
Hearing that Anytype has become a safe space for your thoughts and life, especially in such a personal context, means more than we can put into words. It’s exactly why we started building it.
We’re honored to be your first Product Hunt review. We’ll keep doing our best to make sure Anytype stays true to its values — private, local, yours.
Sending gratitude from the whole team.
I just checked when I created my very first note in my very first Anytype Space… turns out it was back in October 2021 😇 What a ride it has been ever since! Huge congratulations to the Anytype team for building such a remarkable piece of software. If Anytype didn’t exist, someone would have to invent it! 👍💪
Over nearly four years of using Anytype, I gradually replaced all my other tools and went all-in with my notes, knowledge, and life management in 2022. I’ve tried almost everything OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Logseq, Trello, Todoist, Things, Roam, Obsidian, Tana, Capacities, but no tool ever stuck with me the way Anytype did. It became my go-to place for everything I need to organize in my life. I use it together with my wife, at work, in my own business, with other family members, and in every area it has proven to be incredibly useful. And having now Chat inside this tool just makes it even more powerful!
What I like most about Anytype:
local first --> incredibly fast, offline use
object oriented approach (everything as an object)
no one will ever be able to read my data on any server
Beautiful UI, I love the widgets and that I can fully customize the sidebar
Raycast interface --> as a heavy keyboard user, nearly everything is accessible without ever touching my mouse
shared spaces
local network sync capability --> I use it at work, where I have no internet connection and just a wifi-router, works like a charm
and much more!
It’s a joy to see the hard work the Anytype team puts into this product, and it keeps getting better with every update. I'm glad to be part of your journey. So keep on rocking, Anytypers! 💕🥳 Looking forward to every new release ✌️
Anytype
@siousu Wow, thanks for this. Means a lot that you’ve been with us since 2021. Amazing to hear how deeply Anytype fits into your life — work, family, business, all of it.
You nailed what we’re building for: local-first speed, full control, and real collaboration. Glad chats made it even better.
We’ll keep shipping. Grateful to have you with us.
Anytype
@jalcantara Please let me know how it goes, and if anything is missing — happy to assist.
I've been using your software for around a year now. Initially I experimented with it, but it didn't quite suit my needs. Now though, I find myself doing a lot of writing and I'm building a personal knowledge database, and the changes you've made encouraged me to delve a bit deeper about 4 or 5 months ago. I now use it everyday for a number of functions. Thank you, this is a fantastic piece of software. Good luck for the future.
Anytype
Thank you Dennis — really appreciate this.
It means a lot to hear that the recent changes helped you come back and build your knowledge base with Anytype. We’ve been working hard to make writing and everyday use feel smoother, and messages like yours keep us going.
If you ever have ideas or things you’d like to see improved, we’re always here to listen.
Only started using Anytype in this last week but am really loving it, and especially how it also does P2P sync locally. It also has a generous free tier, and I love the bulk import/export with Markdown. It did a great job of importing my 1,200 plus notes in from Joplin Notes.
Hoping though that we will still see:
Find and Replace
Linking to blocks in same Page or in other pages
There is otherwise really nothing else that I miss in Anytype.
Anytype
Thank you! Great to hear you’re enjoying Anytype — and happy the Joplin import went smoothly.
Find & Replace is on the way.
Block-level linking is planned for next year as part of the Editor 2.0 project.
If anything else comes up as you settle in, we’re here to help.
Triforce Todos
This looks really cool! How smooth is offline collaboration when multiple people are editing the same page?
Anytype
@abod_rehman Thank you!
Offline collaboration is already quite good when people edit the same page. The only tricky part is when two people edit the same block at the same time. In that case we use a simple rule where the last write wins.
The nice thing is that you always have full history, so you can revert any change if the conflict did not resolve the way you wanted.
Currently i am using notion + teams for my startup and I'd love to consolidate into a single app. Quick question: Can I set up an automated marketing metrics dashboard that syncs live data from socials into Anytype, similar to how n8n integrate with Notion?
Anytype
@iamrajanrk We’re opening up the Headless Client (CLI) later today, which allows for all kinds of integrations. So yes, you can use something like n8n to sync live data into Anytype.
At the moment, it’s mostly accessible for people with an engineering background, but over time it will become much easier to set up directly in the app.
If you’re considering using Anytype for your startup, we’d be happy to assist. Feel free to DM me inside Anytype via this link.
https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-cli