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✓ verifiedPaid

Widely used note-taking app with AI handwriting features; category leader.

👁 2.4M/mo♥ 1.5K

✓ verifiedFreemium

Kiro spec-driven AI IDE from prototype to production; notable AWS-backed dev product.

👁 3.8M/mo

Pricing

Free: $0

All Platforms Yearly: $9.99 / year

Apple One-time Payment: $29.99 / one-time payment

Android & Windows Yearly: $6.99 / year

KIRO FREE: $0 /mo. per user

KIRO PRO: $19 /mo. per user

KIRO PRO+: $39 /mo. per user

Core features

✦AI IDE for prototype to production
✦Spec-driven development
✦Agent hooks for task automation (e.g., generating documentation, unit tests, code optimization)
✦Multimodal chat
✦Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for connecting to docs, databases, APIs
✦Autopilot mode for autonomous execution of large tasks
✦Configurable agent interaction via steering files
✦Support for state-of-the-art AI models (Claude Sonnet 3.7, Sonnet 4)
✦VS Code compatibility (Open VSX plugins, themes, settings)
✦Image input for UI design or architecture guidance

Use cases

→Building secure file sharing applications from scratch quickly.
→Creating games without extensive manual coding.
→Accelerating development from concept to working prototype in a short timeframe (e.g., a weekend).
→Generating detailed user stories and capturing requirements like a product manager.
→Automating routine development tasks such as documentation generation, unit testing, and code performance optimization.
→Implementing complex features on larger codebases with fewer prompts and less repetition.

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