DEVONthink is a document and information management application for Mac and iOS. It allows users to store, organize, and work with various types of documents, leveraging AI for tasks like searching, categorizing, summarizing, and automating workflows. The application emphasizes local data storage, security, and privacy, and offers different editions with varying feature sets.

Features
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Must Have

8 of 9

AI File Chat

Semantic Search

Automated Sorting Rules

Privacy Controls

Automated Folder Organization

Conversational AI Interface

File Editing & Renaming

User Feedback Learning

Cloud Storage Integration

Other

9 of 22

Manual Approval Workflow

Local File Access

Multi-User Collaboration

Local File System Access

File Cleaning & Deduplication

Content-based Q&A

Security & Privacy Controls

Version History

Multi-tier Pricing Plans

Feedback-Driven Refinement

Demo Mode

Usage Credits & Quotas

Enterprise SSO & Compliance

Centralized Team Billing

Advanced AI Model

Data Encryption & Security

Cloud Storage Integrations

User Roles & Permissions

Cross-platform Support

Bulk Operations & Batch Processing

Customizable Sorting Rules

Notifications & Reminders

Pricing
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Standard

$99.00 one time
  • Importing
  • Indexing
  • Sync
  • Encrypted databases
  • Audit-proof databases
  • Versioning
  • Universal item links
  • Hierarchical tagging
  • Newsfeeds
  • Reading list
  • Annotations
  • See Also
  • Classify
  • Smart groups & smart rules
  • Templates
  • Reminders
  • Batch processing
  • Scripting

Pro

$199.00 one time
  • All Standard features
  • Generative AI integration
  • Interactive chat assistant
  • Text summarization
  • Image generation
  • Text transformation
  • Assisted search
  • Tagging, rating, labeling
  • Batch processing & smart rules
  • Scripting
  • Help chat assistant
  • Scanner integration & OCR
  • Barcode scanning
  • Imprinting for PDFs and images
  • Email archiving
  • Image & speech transcription
  • Download Manager
  • Concordance
  • Graph
  • Grouping similar items
  • Custom metadata
  • Expense report
  • Audit report
  • Form views
  • Bookends integration

Server

$499.00 one time
  • All Pro features
  • Web interface
  • Granular access management
Rationale

DEVONthink is a strong match for the Dynbox concept. It explicitly mentions an "AI chat assistant" for interacting with documents, generative AI integration for summarization and tagging, and smart rules for automation, which aligns with automated sorting. It emphasizes local storage and strong privacy/security controls. While it doesn't directly integrate with major cloud storage providers in the same way Dynbox describes, it allows syncing databases which can be stored on cloud services, and its primary focus is local file management. The product also offers different editions (Standard, Pro, Server) which aligns with multi-tier pricing plans.