Cosmos vs mymind

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: mymind — $4.99/mo vs $8/mo for Cosmos
Free plan: Only Cosmos (mymind has paid plans only)
Best fit: Cosmos: Designers and art directors building reference boards for a brief · mymind: Designers and researchers hoarding visual references they need to find again
Platforms: Cosmos: Web, iOS, Chrome extension · mymind: Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome extension
Trust score: About even — Cosmos 92, mymind 92

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

CosmosVisual bookmarking and discovery: search images by colour or likeness and save them into shared collections

mymindPrivate saving with automatic tagging and visual search

Side by side

Fact	Cosmos	mymind
Category	Creative Inspiration & Moodboards	Note-taking & Second Brain
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Starts at	$8/mo	$4.99/mo
Trust score	92 / 100	92 / 100
Platforms	Web, iOS, Chrome extension	Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome extension
Company	Cosmos Entity, INC.	mymind, Inc.
Launched	2022	2020
Last verified	Oct 16, 2026	Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

Cosmos

The best-behaved of the Pinterest alternatives for people who actually work in visuals: colour and image search are precise, attribution survives the save, and the AI-content filter is a real toggle rather than a promise. It stays free for the core loop. The gap is on the professional side, with no API and no easy bulk export.

Pros

Search by colour, keyword or an uploaded image, all in one field
Keeps artist and source attribution on saved images
Filter that hides AI-generated content from the feed
Shared and collaborative collections, free on both web and iOS

Cons

The web pricing page renders client-side only, so plan contents are hard to compare
No API for exporting or syncing a library elsewhere
No Android app listed alongside the iOS one

mymind

Buy this if your actual problem is that you never revisit what you save because filing it is work; mymind deletes the filing step entirely. If you need to share, collaborate or build linked structures on top of your notes, Notion or Obsidian are the right shape and mymind will feel deliberately restricted.

Pros

Auto-tagging plus text recognition inside images makes visual search genuinely usable
No social features, tracking or ads, from an independent self-funded company
Native macOS, iOS and Android apps plus Chrome, Edge and Safari extensions
AI tiers start at $7.99/month, and a $4.99 bookmark-only plan exists for those who skip the AI

Cons

Strictly single-player: no sharing, teams or collaboration at any tier
No permanent free plan on the pricing page
The API is still a private beta, so automation is not available yet
Advanced AI tagging, reading mode and article backup are on the $12.99 tier, not the $7.99 one

Which one fits

Choose Cosmos if you need

Designers and art directors building reference boards for a brief
Anyone who wants to search a saved library by colour rather than by tag
Small teams collaborating on a shared collection of visual references

Choose mymind if you need

Designers and researchers hoarding visual references they need to find again
People who abandoned Notion because maintaining the system became the task
Privacy-conscious users who do not want a knowledge base mined or indexed

Cosmos vs mymind: the questions people ask

Is Cosmos cheaper than mymind?

On published entry prices, mymind starts lower — $4.99/mo against $8/mo for Cosmos. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Cosmos or mymind have a free tier?

Cosmos has a free tier; mymind has paid plans only.

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