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DEVONthink Pro for Mac

Knowledge base, information manager, and much more.

$199.00
In English
4.2
Based on 171 user rates

DEVONthink Pro overview

Your files are piling up like digital skyscrapers on your desk? DEVONthink Pro is the one place for all your documents on your Mac. Collect data of any kind, organize it, and link the various bits to create your own web of information. Work with it alone or in a team on Macs, iPads, and iPhones. Automate your workflows so you can concentrate on what's really important. Organize your knowledge the smart way, with DEVONthink.

  • Intelligent Document Management: Organize, store, and retrieve thousands of documents, PDFs, web pages, images, and notes with AI-powered smart groups and classification
  • Advanced Search & Discovery: Find information instantly with powerful full-text search, Boolean operators, and AI-suggested connections between related documents
  • Generative AI Integration: Leverage built-in AI assistance for summarizing documents, answering questions about your data, and generating insights from your knowledge base
  • Knowledge Synthesis: Transform scattered information into actionable insights with built-in tools for annotation, linking, tagging, and cross-referencing
  • Secure & Private: Keep your data completely under your control with local storage, encrypted sync, and no cloud dependency requirements
  • Research Powerhouse: Capture web content, import from multiple sources, and build comprehensive research databases with automatic metadata extraction
  • Seamless Integration: Works natively with macOS, supports scripting/automation, and syncs across devices while maintaining your existing workflow

What’s new in version 4.0.2

This maintenance release introduces support for Google Imagen 4 (Preview), along with several improvements and fixes. We enhanced handling of relative links in Markdown documents to allow spaces, and we corrected an issue with list indentation. We also improved document language detection, which can influence Chat-suggested properties like tags. The Favorites section, e.g., in the Move To context menu now correctly lists all favorited groups. Colored groups also show their designated colors in more locations, such as the Path bar. For AI features, we expanded the prompt field in the Chat and Help assistants to accommodate longer prompts. We extended the timeout period for image generation, and queries will retry up to two times when necessary. As always, we focused on increasing the application's stability and reliability.

NEW (Pro)
  • Added support for Google Imagen 4 (Preview), accessible in the AI > Image Generation settings, Data > New > Generate Image window, and the download image for prompt AppleScript command.
Improved
  • Image links in Markdown documents now support relative URLs containing spaces without requiring percent-escaping.
  • Custom colored groups now display in color in more places in the interface, e.g., the Path bar.
  • DEVONthink better detects the language of documents, whether you import, index, or create them within the application. This can also improve results of chat-based features of the higher editions, e.g., tag suggestions or summarization.
Improved (Pro)
  • The prompt field in the Chat and Help assistants can now use up to one-third of the pane's height.
  • The Chat assistant, chat-driven smart actions, and the get chat response for message AppleScript command now perform two retries, as needed. Additionally, the Chat assistant now shows a message when retrying queries.
  • Image generation requests run longer before they timeout.
  • Using engine GPT-Image-1 with the AppleScript command download image for prompt now supports the image parameter.
  • Using Pico AI Server now supports vision for Gemma 3. We also reduced extraneous logging.
Improved (Server)
  • In the web interface, only groups with sub-groups display a disclosure triangle.
Fixed
  • Line items in Markdown lists indented with 4 or more spaces didn't render correctly. Fixed.
  • Images and PDF documents dragged from the Finder into DEVONthink between two Macs connected via Universal Control would be renamed on import. Fixed.
  • Copying section links in EPUB documents via the Table of Contents inspector didn't include anchors. Fixed.
  • After inserting or deleting pages in a PDF document, the title of main and document windows, and the subtitle of document windows didn't reflect the changed page count. Fixed.
  • Toolbar searches using the size: search prefix would fail if they contained spaces, e.g., size> 5 MB. Fixed.
  • Switching away from the AI > Tags inspector to another part of the interface would unnecessarily sound the system beep. Fixed.
  • The Favorites section in the Move To, Duplicate To, and Replicate To context menus and Destination popups, e.g., in the Sorter, only displayed the first favorited group. Fixed.
  • .applescript files couldn't be used as external smart rule scripts due to an AppleScript error. Fixed.
Fixed (Sync)
  • Databases with names containing, e.g., "GoogleDrive", "Google Drive", or "OneDrive" couldn't be created or imported from sync locations. Fixed.
Fixed (Pro)
  • Nested IMAP mailboxes incorrectly appeared in the top-level mailbox in the Import > Emails sidebar. Fixed.
  • The Label menus in the Info > Generic inspector, Info filter pane, and the context menu of the Navigate sidebar incorrectly contained the Chat Suggestion command. Fixed.
Fixed (Server)
  • PDF documents didn't load in the web interface in Safari. Fixed.
  • In the web interface, EPUB documents couldn't be navigated via the table of contents. Fixed.
  • Sorting the item list on the Size column sorted incorrectly and the Modified column sorted in the reverse direction, ascending or descending. Fixed.
  • The item list and view/edit pane didn't scroll at the same rate. Fixed.
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DEVONthink Pro for Mac

$199.00
In English
Version 4.0.2
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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Tim27
Tim27
Apr 27 2025
3.9.8
3.5
Apr 27 2025
3.5
Version: 3.9.8
So, DevonThink Pro is on version 4, but DevonThink To Go (iOS) is only on version 3? Is there feature parity between them?
bdikkat
bdikkat
Oct 29 2024
3.9.8
0.0
Oct 29 2024
0.0
Version: 3.9.8
What is the point of this ?
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Apr 17 2024
3.9.6
5.0
Apr 17 2024
5.0
Version: 3.9.6
You do have to be very careful what you put in there, especially complete website archives etc.. Could destroy your database (am in the process of grieving loss of over 10GB of years of archiving, won't be recuperable in any way since DTP dispatches its files in very complex ways, destroying the original structure integrity of the original hierarchy, unless using export functions.. which of course cannot be done at this point since database cannot be open. All I have access to viewing the content of the archive in Finder.. and the mess that is in there). I wonder more and more how useful this, in many ways Finder is much much less risky for organizing. Definitely not all the bells and whistles but since we're tributary to Spotlight in any case.. I used to rave about this app, not so sure anymore. I'd almost say.. stick to the Finder.. it can do all sorts of organizational tricks much less risky.
Nazaire
Nazaire
Jun 2 2021
3.7.2
5.0
Jun 2 2021
5.0
Version: 3.7.2
A great tool for those who need it (not for those who complain but clearly bought the wrong tool). Rock solid, well thought out. But you have to read at least part of the manual, if is not completely obvious what can and cannot be done. When SpotLight is not up to your tasks anymore, have a look at DTPro and be prepared to invest some time to learn, you will be rewarded :)
Scott-C-H-
Scott-C-H-
Feb 25 2021
3.6.1
5.0
Feb 25 2021
5.0
Version: 3.6.1
I've used DEVONthink since it was 2.x. I departed from it for a while, but I'm back and loving its usefulness. It's quite handy to use with iOS devices where Files.app is quite limited. I tried to do everything with just plain text files and folders, but I finally broke down and admitted it was a foolish idea after all. DEVONthink works quite well for capturing all kinds of info with minimum friction and maintain it in a searchable and usable way. Now that I have tried the overly-simplistic method, I can't emphasize enough how useful DEVONthink really is.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 2 2025
4.0.1
5.0
Jul 2 2025
5.0
Version: 4.0.1
seba-szwarc
seba-szwarc
Mar 26 2024
3.9.6
1.0
Mar 26 2024
1.0
Version: 3.9.6
Ionos
Ionos
Mar 23 2024
3.9.6
5.0
Mar 23 2024
5.0
Version: 3.9.6
phs811229
phs811229
Nov 27 2023
3.9.4
1.0
Nov 27 2023
1.0
Version: 3.9.4
andricelis
andricelis
Sep 26 2023
3.9.3
5.0
Sep 26 2023
5.0
Version: 3.9.3
anonymous-stingray-2711119
anonymous-stingray-2711119
Sep 20 2023
3.9.2
1.0
Sep 20 2023
1.0
Version: 3.9.2
lvduoyouxiang
lvduoyouxiang
Nov 2 2022
3.8.6
5.0
Nov 2 2022
5.0
Version: 3.8.6
pettifogger0712
pettifogger0712
Feb 25 2022
3.8.2
5.0
Feb 25 2022
5.0
Version: 3.8.2
MaWri
MaWri
Oct 14 2021
3.8
5.0
Oct 14 2021
5.0
Version: 3.8
dinghuibin1992
dinghuibin1992
Aug 1 2021
3.7.2
5.0
Aug 1 2021
5.0
Version: 3.7.2
Nazaire
Nazaire
Jun 2 2021
3.7.2
5.0
Jun 2 2021
5.0
Version: 3.7.2
radiovish
radiovish
May 14 2021
3.7.2
5.0
May 14 2021
5.0
Version: 3.7.2
Scott-C-H-
Scott-C-H-
Feb 25 2021
5.0
Feb 25 2021
5.0
Version: null
momalle3-1
momalle3-1
Jan 11 2021
1.0
Jan 11 2021
1.0
Version: null
time2poppop
time2poppop
Aug 13 2020
5.0
Aug 13 2020
5.0
Version: null
MacMec
MacMec
Aug 1 2019
4.5
Aug 1 2019
4.5
Version: null
Cyzor
Cyzor
Jul 31 2019
5.0
Jul 31 2019
5.0
Version: null
Maddogiam66
Maddogiam66
May 24 2019
2.0
May 24 2019
2.0
Version: null
BasiIFawlty
BasiIFawlty
May 23 2019
5.0
May 23 2019
5.0
Version: null
PRjohnson
PRjohnson
May 1 2019
5.0
May 1 2019
5.0
Version: null
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Apr 28 2019
5.0
Apr 28 2019
5.0
Version: null
Rlevent
Rlevent
Apr 28 2019
5.0
Apr 28 2019
5.0
Version: null
mzbe
mzbe
Apr 27 2019
4.5
Apr 27 2019
4.5
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Apr 26 2019
5.0
Apr 26 2019
5.0
Version: null
stoltenberg
stoltenberg
Apr 17 2019
5.0
Apr 17 2019
5.0
Version: null
iMacWare
iMacWare
Mar 26 2019
5.0
Mar 26 2019
5.0
Version: null
F-lash
F-lash
Feb 24 2019
4.5
Feb 24 2019
4.5
Version: null
cig0
cig0
Jan 20 2019
5.0
Jan 20 2019
5.0
Version: null
makareim
makareim
Jan 15 2019
5.0
Jan 15 2019
5.0
Version: null
anonymous-python-105906
Dec 8 2018
5.0
Version: null
TDark555
TDark555
Jun 20 2018
5.0
Jun 20 2018
5.0
Version: null
hmurchison
hmurchison
May 25 2018
5.0
May 25 2018
5.0
Version: null
antitermite
antitermite
May 25 2018
2.5
May 25 2018
2.5
Version: null
Philosopherdog
Philosopherdog
Jun 3 2017
5.0
Jun 3 2017
5.0
Version: null
Levelbest
Levelbest
May 18 2017
1.0
May 18 2017
1.0
Version: null
isdn
isdn
May 15 2017
5.0
May 15 2017
5.0
Version: null
john-david-miller
john-david-miller
Mar 7 2017
4.0
Mar 7 2017
4.0
Version: null
Tim27
Tim27
Jan 16 2017
3.5
Jan 16 2017
3.5
Version: null
Somnus
Somnus
Jan 9 2017
3.0
Jan 9 2017
3.0
Version: null
kscmint
kscmint
Aug 10 2016
5.0
Aug 10 2016
5.0
Version: null