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24 alternatives to BashNota

Offline-first second brain cracked on code and AI

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Native ChatGPT for MacOS

    2024 · thinkbuddy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Persistent memory for Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor. Free.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Saner.AI▲677

    Initially, we thought about this feature due to a bug in our chat interface. And surprisingly, I noticed that POE has just released the same feature. But the distinction is: with us the Multi-bot is designed to streamline the notetaking/working experience -> It allows user to search for external knowledge without switching context Though we are still in the beta phase, I would love to hear your thought/feedback on it :)

    2024 · saner.ai · its alternatives →

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    Give your team one AI memory. Keep your own private.

    Jul 2026 · thesecondbrain.dev · its alternatives →

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    I built Paca out of pure passion—a free and lightweight Jira alternative written in Go where humans and AI agents work together as equal teammates to plan sprints and assign tasks to each other. It is fully customizable with custom views, fields, and a WASM-based plugin architecture. My team uses it daily for our own development, so it will be continuously maintained and completely free forever

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve forked Jupyter Lab and added AI code generation features that feel native and have all the context about your notebook. You can see a demo video (2 min) here: https://www.tella.tv/video/clxt7ei4v00rr09i5gt1laop6/view Try a hosted version here: https://pretzelai.app Jupyter is by far the most used Data Science tool. Despite its popularity, it still lacks good code-generation extensions. The flagship AI extension jupyter-ai lags far behind in features and UX compared to modern AI code generation and understanding tools (like…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're building Thread (https://thread.dev/) an open-source Jupyter Notebook that has a bunch of AI features built in. The easiest way to think of Thread is if the chat interface of OpenAI code interpreter was fused into a Jupyter Notebook development environment where you could still edit code or re-run cells. To check it out, you can see a video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1_eoO6w-c We initially got the idea when building Vizly (https://vizly.fyi/) a tool that lets non-technical users ask questions from their data. While…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Viberia▲146

    Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

    May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quietly▲59

    Offline AI IDE & local Chat

    May 2026 · quietlycode.org · its alternatives →

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    Maestri▲183

    An infinite canvas where coding agents work in concert

    Mar 2026 · themaestri.app · its alternatives →

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    Autocomplete for your thoughts

    2025 · ventrilo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile

    Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code

    May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →

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    Powerful Simulations & AI Notebooks - Without the Cloud

    2025 · snapthinkllm.com · its alternatives →

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    Tolaria▲30

    A free + open source app to manage your AI second brain

    Apr 2026 · tolaria.md · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT at your fingertips: Menu-bar app

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Offline AI shell assistant

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A delightfully minimal, yet remarkably powerful AI Shell Assistant. - ibigio/shell-ai

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Extensible AI assistant platform that bridges LLMs to tasks and actions - nathankot/bashi

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    One Brain. Any Tool.

    Jul 2026 · cerebrumma.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered Jupyter Notebook app for code help, and summaries

    2025 · noteviewai.apk.com · its alternatives →

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    A free AI assistant for developers who live in the terminal.

    Jun 2026 · ghost-cli.eu.cc · its alternatives →

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    Live code notebook as an open source web app

    2016 · jupyter.org · its alternatives →

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