Athenana vs mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader and more

Reading the tables

Yes
Partly, or on a paid tier
No
Not applicable by design
Not documented publicly

The Athenana column describes what is running today. The six in the first tables were checked against those products’ own public pages and documentation on 8 September 2026, and products change — check anything you are about to decide on against the source. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Capture

How something gets in, and from where.

Capture — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Browser extension	Yes. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari	Yes. Chrome, Safari, Edge	Yes. all major browsers	Yes.	Yes. Chrome, Firefox, Safari	Partly, or on a paid tier. bookmarklet, or a third-party client	Partly, or on a paid tier. bookmarklet
Saves the page as you saw it — a screenshot of the rendered, signed-in page	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. visual cards, not your rendered view	Partly, or on a paid tier. permanent copy on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. the rendered text, not a picture	Partly, or on a paid tier. archive and screenshot of a public fetch	Partly, or on a paid tier. archival copy on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. archives the page, on the paid tier
Mobile capture	Yes. iOS share-sheet Shortcut	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Partly, or on a paid tier. third-party clients	Yes. native apps
Select text on a page and keep it as a highlight	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Notes in Markdown	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. notes, not Markdown-first	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. notes and descriptions, not Markdown	Yes. posts are Markdown
Feed subscriptions (RSS and Atom)	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. collection feeds out only	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes. the timeline
Write API	Yes. a token per client, revocable	Partly, or on a paid tier. read and write, in beta	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Micropub — the standard posting API, so existing clients just work	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Forward an email in, or take a newsletter	Yes. forward to a secret address of your own; a second one files a to-do	No.	No.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	No.	Yes. newsletter features
Save a PDF and search the words inside it	Yes. upload it, or forward it by email	Partly, or on a paid tier. its summary and tags, not the full text	Partly, or on a paid tier. full-text search on the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a bookmarked PDF, on the archiving tier	Not documented publicly. uploads to a blog; searching them is not documented

Import and export

Arriving with what you already have, and leaving with all of it.

Import and export — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Browser bookmarks file	Yes.	No.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.
Pocket or Instapaper export	Yes.	No.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
mymind, including screenshots, PDFs and a sync you can run again	Yes.	Not applicable by design.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.
OPML, so a feed list comes with you	Partly, or on a paid tier. export only; an import unfollows what it lists	No.	No.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes.
Export everything out again	Yes. CSV and Markdown	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes. Markdown, Obsidian, Notion	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.

What happens to a save

The work you would otherwise do yourself, done for you.

What happens to a save — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
The full article text is kept, so it stays findable after the page changes	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier
Text inside an image is read and searchable	Yes.	Yes.	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	No.
A summary of each item	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	No.
Tags proposed automatically	Yes. held for you to approve	Partly, or on a paid tier. applied for you	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier. applied for you	No.	No.
Duplicates noticed	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
Dead links noticed	Yes. and gathered on a list to clear	Not documented publicly.	Yes. on demand	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. with the archiving tier	Not documented publicly.

Finding it again

Half a remembered phrase, months later.

Finding it again — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Full-text search	Yes. including text read out of pictures	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. highlights and archived pages
Searches you keep	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes. smart filters	Partly, or on a paid tier. filtered views	Yes. smart lists	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
Nothing to file — no folders anywhere	Yes.	Yes.	No. collections first	Partly, or on a paid tier.	No. lists	Yes. tags only	Partly, or on a paid tier.
Old saves resurfaced for you	Yes. a daily draw	Yes. serendipity	No.	Yes. a daily review	No.	No.	No.
Keyboard navigation	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.

Reading

Reading the copy you kept, not the page as it is today.

Reading — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
A reader over your own archived copy, so it survives a paywall or a dead link	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a reading mode	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a cached copy, no reader	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Highlighting inside the reader	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Text to speech	Yes. in the reader, and narrated for the feed below	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	No.	No.
Saved articles narrated into your own private podcast feed	Yes.	No.	No.	Not documented publicly. it reads aloud; a feed is not documented	No.	No.	No.
Send to Kindle	Yes. one article at a time, from the reader, with your note if you ask	No.	No.	Yes. one at a time, or a daily or weekly digest	No.	Not documented publicly.	No.
Reading offline	Partly, or on a paid tier. the installable web app, not a native one	Not documented publicly.	No.	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	No.	Not documented publicly.

Publishing, and the open web

Off to begin with. On one item at a time, at three levels.

Publishing, and the open web — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Per-item visibility — private, published at its own address, or listed publicly	Yes.	No. private only	Partly, or on a paid tier. public collections	Partly, or on a paid tier. shareable links	Partly, or on a paid tier. a read-only link, per list	Partly, or on a paid tier. public or private	Partly, or on a paid tier. per post
A personal blog built in	Yes. at an address of your own	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes. the whole product
ActivityPub — followable from Mastodon	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Webmentions	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Private to begin with; your screenshots are never published, and summaries only if you switch them on	Yes.	Yes. private only	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	No. public first

Privacy, and the shape of the thing

Who it is for, and what it does with what you give it.

Privacy, and the shape of the thing — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Privacy enforced in the queries, not just hidden in the interface	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. your own server	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
No advertising, and no mining of who you know	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
One person, one private library	Yes. one account each	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. sharing features	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. multi-user options	Yes.	No. social by design
Run it on your own server	Not applicable by design. declined by design	No.	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. your domain, their hosting

Where the others win

Six reasons to close this tab.

mymind

Native apps on Mac, iPhone and Android. Recognition that goes past reading text — objects, colours, brands — and a visual canvas to work on.

Raindrop.io

Native apps on every platform, and a free tier with unlimited bookmarks and collections. Nested collections, if folders are how you think, and duplicate and broken-link cleanup built in.

Readwise Reader

The deepest reading pipeline of any of these: text to speech, spaced review of your highlights, Send to Kindle, EPUB, and a newsletter inbox.

Karakeep

Self-hosting, and bring your own model. If the server has to be yours, this is the right choice and none of the rest of this page changes that.

Pinboard

Fifteen years of running without drama, and a radical simplicity nothing here matches.

Micro.blog

Blogging first, with cross-posting, podcast hosting and newsletters. If publishing is the main event rather than remembering, start there.

And where this one does

One sentence, since the tables are forty-one rows long.

Athenana is the only one on this page that captures a page as you saw it — signed in, past the paywall — keeps it privately searchable down to the words inside your screenshots, and can still publish any single item to the open web, with a blog, ActivityPub and Webmentions, on the days you choose to.

The long version is on the features page, written the same way: from the code rather than from a roadmap.

Against the feed readers

Athenana is not a feed reader, and the readers are not libraries. They meet at the feed, so here is where they differ, starting with the difference in kind: a reader delivers a river you keep up with; here, feeds fill a morning list that replaces itself, and nothing reaches your board until you save it.

The shape of following

What subscribing commits you to.

The shape of following — Athenana compared with Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Feedbin, NewsBlur and FreshRSS.
Feature	Athenana	Feedly	Inoreader	NetNewsWire	Feedbin	NewsBlur	FreshRSS
Follow a site’s feed	Yes. found on pages you save, or pasted; refreshed daily	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Every new item lands in a timeline to get through	Not applicable by design. nothing reaches your board on its own	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Unread counts	Not applicable by design. no number asks to be cleared	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
A ranked daily list that replaces itself	Yes. a morning list from your feeds and topics, with 90 days kept	Partly, or on a paid tier. priorities, on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	No.	No.	No.	No.
Resurfaces what you kept but stopped opening	Yes. nine a day, from your own library	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.
OPML, in and out	Partly, or on a paid tier. export, and import to unfollow what a file lists; not to subscribe	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.

What can feed it

Sources beyond a plain feed address.

What can feed it — Athenana compared with Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Feedbin, NewsBlur and FreshRSS.
Feature	Athenana	Feedly	Inoreader	NetNewsWire	Feedbin	NewsBlur	FreshRSS
Newsletters by email address	Yes. subscribe with your forwarding address; each issue is saved as a note	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	No.	Yes.	Yes.	No.
A feed for a page that has none	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	No.	No.	Not documented publicly.	Yes. by scraping, on your server
Social sources built in (Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube…)	Not applicable by design. no timelines imported; the fediverse is where this publishes	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. through extensions
Podcast playback	Partly, or on a paid tier. a saved episode plays in place; no podcast subscriptions	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	No.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.

From passing to kept

What happens when an item is worth more than today.

From passing to kept — Athenana compared with Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Feedbin, NewsBlur and FreshRSS.
Feature	Athenana	Feedly	Inoreader	NetNewsWire	Feedbin	NewsBlur	FreshRSS
Saving makes a permanent, archived copy	Yes. the full text, readable here after the original dies	Partly, or on a paid tier. boards keep the reference, not the page	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier. starred, while the feed copy lasts	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier. saved stories	Partly, or on a paid tier. favourites keep the fetched content
Tags suggested against your own vocabulary, held for approval	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.
A private summary of what each kept article argues	Yes. on your blog only if you switch it on	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	No.	No.	No.	No.
Highlights with your notes, searchable	Yes. each passage with its own visibility	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	No.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	No.
Search inside the full text of what you kept	Yes. and the text inside images	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. titles and cached text	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Publish a kept item to a blog of your own, followable from Mastodon	Yes. per item, at three levels	No.	No.	No.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a shared blurblog, not on the fediverse	No.

Reader machinery

The rows where the readers win today, said plainly.

Reader machinery — Athenana compared with Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Feedbin, NewsBlur and FreshRSS.
Feature	Athenana	Feedly	Inoreader	NetNewsWire	Feedbin	NewsBlur	FreshRSS
Native apps	No. an installable web app, and an iPhone share-sheet Shortcut	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. Mac, iPhone and iPad	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. third-party clients
Offline reading	Partly, or on a paid tier. the installable web app, not a native one	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. through clients
Serves native reader apps (the Google Reader API)	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. its own API	Yes.	Not applicable by design. it is the client	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Rules and filters that act on items	No. you steer the morning’s topics; nothing acts on items	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier	Yes. on the paid tier	No.	Yes. actions	Yes. per-feed training	Yes.
Updates within minutes of publication	Not applicable by design. once a day, on purpose	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. WebSub
Run it on your own server	Not applicable by design. declined by design	No.	No.	Not applicable by design. a local app	No.	Yes.	Yes.

The Athenana column describes what is running today. The six readers were drafted from their own public pages and documentation on 6 October 2026 and not yet re-checked cell by cell — products change, so check anything you are about to decide on against the source. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

If what you want is a reader

Then get a reader.

NetNewsWire is free and native, Inoreader is the power tool, and FreshRSS is yours to run. They will beat this on apps, offline reading, speed and automation, because keeping up is their whole job.

What none of them is built to be is a memory: the feed item you kept three years ago, archived in full, searchable by a phrase from its middle or a word inside its screenshot, brought back when you stopped opening it, and publishable to a blog that is yours. Feeds here exist to fill that library, not to be kept up with — and your subscriptions leave as OPML any day.

Against the blogging platforms

A blog here is a byproduct of the library: your published notes, photos and comments on the things you kept, at an address you can give people. The platforms below exist to publish; publishing is the whole job. So the open-web rows land surprisingly even — and the business-of-blogging rows do not, on purpose.

Getting a blog

What having one asks of you.

Getting a blog — Athenana compared with WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Micro.blog, Bear Blog and WriteFreely.
Feature	Athenana	WordPress	Ghost	Substack	Micro.blog	Bear Blog	WriteFreely
A blog, hosted, without running anything	Yes. part of the library; one page per person	Yes. .com hosted; .org is yours to run	Yes. Ghost(Pro), or self-host	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. write.as, or self-host
Your own domain	Partly, or on a paid tier. your own site, fed by the blog’s feed	Yes. paid	Yes.	Yes. one-time fee	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid, or self-host
The blog grows out of a library of things you saved	Yes. posts are your comments on what you kept	No.	No.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. bookmarks and bookshelves	No.	No.
Multiple blogs on one account	Not applicable by design. one page each, kept by the person who wrote it	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. separate accounts, or installs	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. premium	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid on write.as, or self-host

Writing and publishing

The composer, and what a post can be.

Writing and publishing — Athenana compared with WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Micro.blog, Bear Blog and WriteFreely.
Feature	Athenana	WordPress	Ghost	Substack	Micro.blog	Bear Blog	WriteFreely
Write in Markdown	Yes. notes, with a reference panel	Partly, or on a paid tier. block editor; Markdown accepted	Partly, or on a paid tier. editor with Markdown cards	Partly, or on a paid tier. Markdown-style shortcuts	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Drafts and scheduled publishing	Yes. a private note is a draft; schedule a post for later	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. a future publish date	Partly, or on a paid tier. drafts; a future date by workaround
A static about page	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. the publication About	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. static pages paid on write.as; pinned posts otherwise
Photos and galleries on a post	Yes. up to twelve, served from here	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. upload paid, or by link	Partly, or on a paid tier. upload paid on write.as, or by link
Post from other apps (Micropub or an open API)	Yes. Micropub, and an API with your own tokens	Partly, or on a paid tier. its own API and apps	Partly, or on a paid tier. Admin API	No.	Yes. Micropub	No.	Yes. its own API
Per-post visibility: private, unlisted address, or listed	Yes. three rungs, stated in words on every item	Partly, or on a paid tier. private and password posts	Partly, or on a paid tier. members-only tiers	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid-only posts	Partly, or on a paid tier. private notes, separate from posts	Partly, or on a paid tier. unlisted	Partly, or on a paid tier. per blog, not per post

Reaching readers

Feeds, the fediverse, and email.

Reaching readers — Athenana compared with WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Micro.blog, Bear Blog and WriteFreely.
Feature	Athenana	WordPress	Ghost	Substack	Micro.blog	Bear Blog	WriteFreely
RSS and JSON feeds	Yes. both, for the blog and the public stream separately	Yes. RSS	Yes. RSS	Yes. RSS	Yes. both	Yes. RSS	Yes. RSS
Followable from Mastodon (ActivityPub)	Yes. replies and likes deliberately refused	Yes. on .com; plugin on .org	Yes. social web, in beta	No.	Yes.	No.	Yes.
Webmentions, sent and received	Yes. shown once you approve them	Partly, or on a paid tier. plugin	Partly, or on a paid tier. for recommendations only	No.	Yes.	No.	No.
Readers can subscribe by email	Yes. a daily digest, off until you turn it on	Yes.	Yes. the core of it	Yes. the whole point	Partly, or on a paid tier. premium	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid; sent by hand	Partly, or on a paid tier. paid
Cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads	Partly, or on a paid tier. posts to Bluesky; Mastodon follows natively	Yes. Jetpack Social	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. via Typefully	Yes. its signature	No.	No.
Comments and likes	Not applicable by design. refused by design; Webmentions, approved, are the inbound channel	Yes.	Yes. members	Yes.	Yes. replies in its timeline	Partly, or on a paid tier. upvotes; no comments	Partly, or on a paid tier. Remark.as replies, on write.as

Ownership and quiet

Whose blog it is, and who is watching.

Ownership and quiet — Athenana compared with WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Micro.blog, Bear Blog and WriteFreely.
Feature	Athenana	WordPress	Ghost	Substack	Micro.blog	Bear Blog	WriteFreely
No analytics, no trackers, no advertising	Partly, or on a paid tier. an anonymous count per page per day; no trackers or ads	No. stats; ads on free plans	Partly, or on a paid tier. first-party analytics	No. tracking and recommendations	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. first-party page counts	Partly, or on a paid tier. view counts
Monetize readers: paid subscriptions, memberships	Not applicable by design. the library is the product, not the audience	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	No.	No.
Your writing exports cleanly	Yes. Markdown folder and CSV	Yes. XML	Yes. JSON	Yes. CSV and HTML	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
One switch makes everything private again	Yes. non-destructive; per-item choices survive	Partly, or on a paid tier. site-wide privacy toggle	Partly, or on a paid tier. private mode, a shared password	Partly, or on a paid tier. private publication toggle	Not documented publicly.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. private blog, paid on write.as

The Athenana column describes what is running today. The six platforms were checked against their own public pages and documentation on 6 October 2026 — plans and features move, so check anything you are about to decide on against the source. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

If what you want is a publication

Then get one of these.

Ghost and Substack if the writing is a business, WordPress if the site is the point, Micro.blog if you want indie posting with cross-posting everywhere, Bear Blog or WriteFreely if you want words and nothing else. They will beat this on domains, drafts, newsletters and reach, because readers are their whole job.

What none of them starts from is a library: here every post began as something you kept — the page, archived; the passage, highlighted; your note beside it — and publishing is one switch on a thing that already exists. The blog is what your memory looks like when you choose to show some of it.

Against the personal planners

The to-do apps all chase the same two moments — getting a thing down, and seeing it again at the right time. Those are this library’s home ground. The difference is what gets kept: most planners keep a line of text and a link; here the thing itself is kept — the page as you saw it, read, tagged and searchable — and marking it to do is one press. What the planners have and this does not is the machinery of a task: due dates and reminders, checklists, quick add that reads a date as you type.

Getting it down

The capture moment, where planners are won.

Getting it down — Athenana compared with Trello, Todoist, TickTick, Things 3, Apple Reminders and Notion.
Feature	Athenana	Trello	Todoist	TickTick	Things 3	Apple Reminders	Notion
Capture a web page as the thing itself, not a link	Yes. archived text, your browser’s screenshot, searchable	No. a link on a card	No. a link	No. a link	No. a link	No. a link	Partly, or on a paid tier. clipper keeps a copy
Capture from the share sheet	Yes. iOS share-sheet Shortcut	Yes.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Capture by email	Yes. forward to a secret address of your own	Yes. its Inbox	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. Mail to Things, needs Things Cloud	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. via integrations
Quick add that understands dates as you type	Partly, or on a paid tier. a quick-add line on Today reads a date at the end	Partly, or on a paid tier. due date from the card title	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. @remind and @today in text
What you capture is read, summarised and tagged for you	Yes. against your own vocabulary, held for approval	Partly, or on a paid tier. AI summaries, paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. AI assist, paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. AI features	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. Apple Intelligence suggestions	Partly, or on a paid tier. autofill summaries and tags, paid

The to-do itself

Where the planners win today, said plainly.

The to-do itself — Athenana compared with Trello, Todoist, TickTick, Things 3, Apple Reminders and Notion.
Feature	Athenana	Trello	Todoist	TickTick	Things 3	Apple Reminders	Notion
Mark a thing to act on, then mark it done	Yes. Do this, then Done	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
A Today view	Yes. a Today list, beside a morning paper and resurfacing	Yes. Planner	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. by view
Due dates and reminders	Partly, or on a paid tier. a due date and a morning email; no alert at a time	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. start dates and deadlines, kept distinct	Yes. time and location alerts	Yes.
Checklists and subtasks	Partly, or on a paid tier. checklists inside a note; no subtasks	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Boards with columns to drag cards through	Not applicable by design. a board to look at, not to groom	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes. view a list as columns	Yes.
Recurring tasks	Not applicable by design. a library is not a chore wheel	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. by template

Around the task

What the thing you act on carries with it.

Around the task — Athenana compared with Trello, Todoist, TickTick, Things 3, Apple Reminders and Notion.
Feature	Athenana	Trello	Todoist	TickTick	Things 3	Apple Reminders	Notion
Saved filters as first-class lists	Yes. searches you keep, in the sidebar	Partly, or on a paid tier. saved searches, paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. 3 free, more on paid	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. tag filters	Yes. custom smart lists	Yes. views
The task carries its source: the page, your note, your highlights	Yes. the save is the task; nothing is retyped	Partly, or on a paid tier. attachments	Partly, or on a paid tier. links and files	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier. notes and links	Partly, or on a paid tier. links, notes, attachments	Yes. on the page
Resurfaces what you meant to get to and did not	Yes. nine a day, after three months unopened	No.	No.	No.	No. Someday is reviewed by hand	No.	No.
Streaks, karma, productivity scores	Not applicable by design. no number nags you here	No.	Yes. karma and streaks	Yes. achievement scores	No.	No.	No.
Share a board, assign a task, comment	Not applicable by design. one person, one private library	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes. shared lists, assigned tasks	Yes.
Calendar sync and time-blocking	Not applicable by design. a library, not a calendar	Yes. Planner	Partly, or on a paid tier. calendar layout on paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. more calendar views paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. shows events; time-block via Shortcut	Partly, or on a paid tier. reminders appear in Calendar	Partly, or on a paid tier. calendar views

Platforms, privacy and export

Whose attention the tool serves.

Platforms, privacy and export — Athenana compared with Trello, Todoist, TickTick, Things 3, Apple Reminders and Notion.
Feature	Athenana	Trello	Todoist	TickTick	Things 3	Apple Reminders	Notion
Native apps	No. an installable web app, and an iPhone share-sheet Shortcut	Yes. iOS, Android, Mac, Windows	Yes.	Yes.	Yes. Apple only	Yes. Apple devices, plus iCloud.com	Yes. iOS, Android, Mac, Windows
Reading offline	Partly, or on a paid tier. the installable web app, not a native one	Partly, or on a paid tier. mobile apps	Yes. tasks work offline once signed in	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. tasks offline; pages are links	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. apps only, not browser
No advertising, and no mining of who you know	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. shares with ad partners	Partly, or on a paid tier. advertising cookies, analytics partners	Partly, or on a paid tier. never sells data; ads not addressed	Partly, or on a paid tier. policy silent on advertising	Partly, or on a paid tier. no sale; ads run in other Apple apps	Partly, or on a paid tier. ad partners for its own marketing
Export everything out again	Yes. CSV and Markdown	Partly, or on a paid tier. JSON per board, CSV paid	Partly, or on a paid tier. CSV per project, backups	Partly, or on a paid tier. backup files	Partly, or on a paid tier. database file; PDF print on Mac	Partly, or on a paid tier. print a list; file export on old macOS	Yes. Markdown, CSV, HTML

The Athenana column describes what is running today. The six planners were checked against their own public pages and documentation on 7 October 2026 — plans and features move, so check anything you are about to decide on against the source. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

If what you want is a task manager

Then get one.

Things 3 if you live on Apple and want calm, Todoist or TickTick if you want power everywhere, Apple Reminders if you want it built in, Trello or Notion if you want boards and views. They will beat this on the task itself: reminders on your lock screen, recurring chores, checklists, native apps.

What most of them keep is a link to the thing the task is about; Notion, the exception, can clip a copy. Here the page you meant to read, the product you meant to buy, the recipe you meant to cook is already kept whole — archived, summarised, findable by half a phrase — and Do this puts it on a Today list with all of that attached. No streaks, no columns to groom, no number waiting for you when life wins.

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