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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. Cosmos starts at $8, mymind at $7.99. Only Cosmos has a free tier.

CosmosVisual bookmarking and discovery: search images by colour or likeness and save them into shared collectionsmymindPrivate saving with automatic tagging and visual search

Side by side

FactCosmosmymind
CategoryCreative Inspiration & MoodboardsNote-taking & Second Brain
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$8 month$7.99 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, iOSWeb, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext
CompanyCosmos Entity, INC.mymind, Inc.
Launched20222020
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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
  • Entry tier at $7.99/month is cheap for a single-user tool of this polish

Cons

  • Strictly single-player: no sharing, teams or collaboration at any tier
  • No permanent free tier, only a trial
  • 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

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