MindLake

The last productivity app you’ll need

Notes, tasks, calendar and contacts, in plain Markdown.

With automation that does the busywork for you.

Connecting and categorising your knowledge.

With meetings that write themselves up with actions.

Knowing who said what, and when.

And a command bar that can answer anything.

Notes, and then some.

Live tour

Try it for yourself.

Walk out of the meeting with the note already written, in a file you own.

Organise

Automagically organised.

Notes, tasks, lists and canvases, together in one vault of plain files you own. Everything is one click from everything else.

Tools

Capture everything.

Talk instead of typing, lift the words off any screen, and keep every source beside the note that needs it.

Screenshots & markup

One shortcut takes the shot, in any app. One window marks it up, hides what’s private and frames it.

  • A key for every shot. ⇧⌘1 an area, ⇧⌘2 the window you’re in, ⇧⌘3 the whole screen, ⌃⇧4 the screen in three seconds. From any app.
  • Scrolling capture. Pick a region and it scrolls for you, stitching a long page into one image. Switch it on in Settings.
  • Copy the text. ⌃⇧5 copies the words off any part of the screen, QR codes included. No picture is kept.
  • Mark it up. Arrows, boxes, a pen, a highlighter, text, numbered steps and stamps. Drag any mark to move it, or ⌥-drag for a copy.
  • Pixelate. Drag over a name, an email or a card number. The blocks go into whatever you copy or save.
  • Backdrops. 16 gradients, a colour, a picture or the shot itself blurred, with its ratio, margin, shadow and corners.
  • Measure and sample. Hold 1 or 2 to measure to the nearest edge. Click a pixel to copy its colour as hex, CSS, RGB or SwiftUI.
  • Pin, copy or save. Pin it above every app, copy it with ⌘C or save with ⌘S. The untouched original is kept beside it.

Find it from the menu bar

Search your notes, tasks, contacts and sources without opening a window. Pull up a person, copy their number, see whose birthday is next. Then carry on.

Open it from the notch

Point at the notch and it drops open: your next meeting, dictation, captures and a teleprompter. While you dictate or record, it widens either side of the camera, with its controls in reach. On a screen without a notch, a thin handle at the top does the same.

Meetings

Minutes, in minutes.

Record any call with no bot in the room. MindLake works out who said what, files the note on your calendar and links everyone who was there.

Transcribe
anything.

Meetings, calls, podcasts, video. Record, and the transcript, the summary and the actions land in your vault, with the actions already on your task list.

Record from the menu bar or a keystroke.

Your voice and theirs, on separate channels.

99 languages

Transcribed on your Mac, on the Neural Engine.

Every speaker separated and diarised.

Name a voice once and it’s known next time.

Or drop in audio or video you already have.

Dictate or record, with the filler trimmed.

A finished note, in plain Markdown you own.

Private by design.

Audio never leaves

Recordings and imports are transcribed on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Offline

Record, transcribe, search and write with the Wi-Fi off.

Local models

Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine. No server, no API call, no queue.

Plain Markdown

Every note is a .md file in a folder you choose. Lists are CSV.

No account

Nothing to sign up for to try it. Any AI keys stay in your macOS Keychain.

Locked notes

Seal a note and it’s encrypted on disk. Not even the AI can read it.

Native performance.

Built in Swift for Apple silicon. Not a web page in a wrapper.

Runs in a quarter of the memory of the five apps it replaces.

Searches your whole vault in under 10 milliseconds.

Uses 0% of your CPU while it waits.

Pricing

Buy it once.

Try everything free for 14 days, then £19 for lifetime access.

Nine apps, or one.

What MindLake does would otherwise take all of these. Here is what they cost, and what they ask of your Mac.

AppPriceMemory
Raycast Pro£87 a year134 MB
CleanShot X£32 once88 MB
Obsidian Sync£44 a year414 MB
Snippety Pro£20 a year74 MB
Wispr Flow Pro£131 a year739 MB
Granola Business£152 a year550 MB
Gemini Notebook£80 a yearWeb app
Evernote Starter£65 a year~250 MB
Todoist Pro£60 a year~250 MB
Together£639 a yearplus £32 once2.5 GBRAM

MindLake

All of it, in one app.

£19

once, not every year.

For the first 1,000 users.

€19 or $19 outside the UK.

Under 250 MB of RAM.

  • Free for 14 days, no card, no account
  • The iPhone companion, included
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

Let’s keep in touch

I’m Kyle, and I build MindLake on my own. Leave your email and I’ll check in now and then to ask how it’s going and what you’d change.

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Prices from each maker’s website on 4 October 2026, Wispr Flow’s and Google’s on 25 October: the cheapest yearly plan, US dollar prices converted with UK VAT added. Granola Business is its only paid plan; Todoist’s is its UK App Store price; Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is priced as Google AI Plus, the cheapest plan that lifts its limits. Memory as Activity Monitor reports it, each app open and idle on a MacBook Air (M2); Evernote’s and Todoist’s (~) are estimates, and Gemini Notebook runs in a browser, so it is not counted.

Clear your head.

Who needs a second brain, when you have a MindLake?

Let’s keep in touch

I’m Kyle, and I build MindLake on my own. Leave your email and I’ll check in now and then to ask how it’s going and what you’d change.

Optional. The download starts either way.

Leave your email and you agree to hear from me about MindLake. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy

Apple silicon or Intel · macOS 15 or later