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24 alternatives to Athens Research

Open-source, local-first Roam Research

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Athens Research launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Roam Research▲376
A note-taking tool for networked thought
2020 · roamresearch.com · its alternatives →
2
AppstoreSpy▲618
Find insights about apps, niches and keywords
2023 · appstorespy.com · its alternatives →
3
Capalyze▲809
ChatGPT for datavores: scrape → ask → visualize
2025 · capalyze.ai · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian▲188
2020 · steveliu.co · its alternatives →
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Odyssey▲525
We're a learning DAO creating quality free web3 education
2021 · odysseydao.webflow.io · its alternatives →
6
Globe Explorer▲410
A discovery engine, a wikipedia page for anything
2024 · explorer.globe.engineer · its alternatives →
7
Open-source Deep Research across workplace applications▲125
I’ve been using deep research on OpenAI and Perplexity and it’s been just amazing at gathering data across a lot of related and chained searches. Just earlier today, I asked “What are some marquee tech companies / hot startups (not including the giants like FAAMG, Samsung, Nvidia etc.)”. It’s a pretty involved question and looking up “marquee tech startups” or "hot tech startups" on Google gave me nothing useful. Deep research on both ChatGPT and Perplexity gave really high quality responses with ChatGPT siding on slightly larger scaleups and Perplexity siding more on up and coming…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenOs▲280
ChatGpt for user, financial & marketing data analysis
2023 · its alternatives →
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Odyssey▲301
AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time
2025 · odyssey.ml · its alternatives →
10
AppFollow 2.0▲338
The best way to track app activities in the appstores
2016 · appfollow.io · its alternatives →
11
OneGlanse▲77
Free open-source GEO tracker for LLM visibility
Apr 2026 · oneglanse.com · its alternatives →
12
Open Analytics▲253
Open Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner. Open source and self-hostable.
Aug 2026 · getopen.so · its alternatives →
13
Expeditione▲265
The Interactive 3D Encyclopedia
Aug 2026 · expeditione.fun · its alternatives →
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The Alexandria Index▲137
Massive internet datasets, embedded, open-sourced and free
2023 · alex.macrocosm.so · its alternatives →
15
ScholArxiv – an open-source, aesthetic, minimal research paper explorer▲147
OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, aesthetic, minimal and AI powered app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. - ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Prism AI▲167
Open Source Deep Research and Learning Agent (Perplexity Pro Alternative). Orchestrates autonomous researchers using LangGraph, Python, and Next.js for students, developers, and lifelong learners. - precious112/prism-ai-deep-research
2025 · prism-ai.ai.studio · its alternatives →
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Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index▲130
Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing. Contribute to tidwall/tile38 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-taking app▲65
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
2020 · logseq.com · its alternatives →
19
Kinase▲159
A framework for building web scrapers for Chrome
2017 · b12.io · its alternatives →
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Open Comet▲117
The autonomous AI browser agent for deep research & tasks
Apr 2026 · opencomet.onrender.com · its alternatives →
21
OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive▲77
I’ve been a long-time Snowplow user and unofficial evangelizer. I have deep respect for its founders, Alex and Yali, who I met a few times. What made me fall in love with Snowplow was that it was unopinionated, gave access to raw event data, and was truly open source. Back in 2013, that changed everything for me. I couldn’t look at GA the same way again. Over the years, analytics moved into SQL warehouses driven by cheaper CPU/storage, dbt, reproducibility, and transparency. I saw the need for a democratized Snowplow pipeline and launched a hosted version in 2019. In January 2024,…
Oct 2025 · opensnowcat.io · its alternatives →
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Tile38 – A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing▲82
Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing. Contribute to tidwall/tile38 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ResearchOSfree tier, from $249/mo▲19
AI-native end-to-end market research
May 2026 · researchos.net · its alternatives →
24
The first Roam-native book, "Ergodicity"▲70
Non-linear learning
2020 · dellannaluca.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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