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SiYuan vs Yojimbo

SiYuan

b3log.org

Yojimbo

barebones.com

Side by side

FigureSiYuanYojimbo
Price from$148/mo—
Free planYes—
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYesYes
LinuxYes—
iOSYesYes
AndroidYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published42
Spec score · Personal Knowledge Management Software8.5 (#12)6.1 (#32)

Plans

SiYuan

  • FreeFree
  • Subscription$148 a month
  • PRO Features$64, paid once
  • Subscription$148, paid once

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Yojimbo

  • Individual$30, paid once
  • Upgrade$20, paid once

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In their own words

SiYuan

SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system for building a linked collection of notes. It supports Markdown, block-level references and bidirectional links, and organizes content into blocks with more than 20 block-level and more than 10 span-level element types. Backlinks can be filtered and searched; relationship graphs are available across a notebook and at block level. Databases support relations, rollups and templates, while flashcards use the FSRS spaced-repetition algorithm. Its AI feature connects to OpenAI for writing continuation, translation, summaries, brainstorming and grammar or spelling corrections. SiYuan supports offline access, and the maker describes multi-device synchronization as incremental and end-to-end encrypted. It is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and the web, with a Chrome/Edge extension, API and Docker self-hosting. The maker says data stays under the user's control on their device. Free access is free; PRO Features is listed at $64 a month with lifetime-use wording, and Subscription at $148 a month with 8GB cloud storage.

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Yojimbo

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