Amplenote
Tags + bidirectional links + task/calendar integration. "Task Score" priority matrix. AmpleAI plugin supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 31 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Tags + bidirectional + Task Score vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Free; Basic $6.99/mo ($71.88/yr); Pro $11.99/mo ($119.88/yr); Founder $29.99/mo ($299.88/yr) vendor fix
- Funding
- Bootstrapped; Alloy.dev / founder-funded; no VC rounds found third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- graph
- retrieval
- graph-traversal
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- overwrite
- unit
- document
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- overwrite
When to use
Optimised for: personal-knowledge-management UX + AI-augmented note-taking
Anti-fit: not for enterprise / programmatic use; not for compliance-regulated workloads
Pros & cons
Pros
Linked-note PKM with task management built in; AI integrations cover memory across notes and tasks.
Cons
Smaller user base than Obsidian / Notion; AI features less prominent.
Claims & capabilities
Free; Pro $7/mo; Unlimited $12/mo; Founder $20/mo (annual).
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — local MCP server hosted by Amplenote Desktop (127.0.0.1, bearer token) for Claude Desktop/Code and Codex; Unlimited/Founder plans
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (30 cited facts, 3 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Tags + bidirectional + Task Score vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Tags + bidirectional links + task/calendar integration. "Task Score" priority matrix. Am… vendor
- Claims / benefits Free; Pro $7/mo; Unlimited $12/mo; Founder $20/mo (annual). vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2019 third-party
- Funding Bootstrapped; Alloy.dev / founder-funded; no VC rounds found third-party
- Pricing Free; Basic $6.99/mo ($71.88/yr); Pro $11.99/mo ($119.88/yr); Founder $29.99/mo ($299.88… vendor
- Compliance no formal certifications listed publicly vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree Jordan Phillips and Bill Harding (co-founders; bootstrapped via Alloy.dev) vendor
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Tombstoning hard-delete supported vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always overwrite (last-write-wins) vendor
- Forgetting policy user-controlled forget vendor
- MCP support yes — local MCP server hosted by Amplenote Desktop (127.0.0.1, bearer token) for Claude … vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (knowledge workers, students, researchers) vendor
- Time to running <10min (hosted SaaS sign-up or app download) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise / programmatic use; not for compliance-regulated workloads vendor
- Optimised for personal-knowledge-management UX + AI-augmented note-taking vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained app; some require iCloud / Google Drive vendor
- Pros Linked-note PKM with task management built in; AI integrations cover memory across notes… vendor
- Cons Smaller user base than Obsidian / Notion; AI features less prominent. vendor
- Project & sources amplenote.com vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-22
- Pricing “Free; Pro $7/mo; Unlimited $12/mo; Founder $20/mo (annual) — from product claims row” → “Free; Basic $6.99/mo ($71.88/yr); Pro $11.99/mo ($119.88/yr); Founder $29.99/mo ($299.88/yr)” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — local MCP server hosted by Amplenote Desktop (127.0.0.1, bearer token) for Claude Desktop/Code and Codex; Unlimited/Founder plans” source