Curio: notes, mind map, kanban

Note taking, brainstorm, tasks

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Curio is a powerful, freeform notebook for Mac that brings your notes, research, documents, and tasks together in one local project file. --- CAPTURE MORE THAN NOTES --- • Arrange anything anywhere on freeform idea spaces. • Build mind maps, outlines, lists, tables, index cards, albums, pinboards, stacks, and Kanban boards. • Work with rich text and Markdown, images, PDFs, documents, web links, audio, video, equations, and diagrams. • Spread a PDF across idea spaces to annotate and take notes page by page. • Track work with tags, tag sets, checkboxes, priorities, ratings, resources, and start/due dates. • Connect ideas with wikilinks, backlinks, deep links, and cross-references. • Find what you need with fast, relevance-ranked search, fuzzy matching, and query-based collections. --- WHY CURIO? --- • One integrated workspace: brainstorm, research, plan, write, and present without scattering your work across unrelated apps. • Local-first and offline-ready: your projects are files on your Mac, under your control. • Flexible and visual: start with a blank canvas or use built-in collections, templates, and styles to give ideas structure. • No lock-in: extensive import, export, and printing options keep your work usable. --- MADE FOR DEEP WORK --- Researchers, writers, students, educators, designers, project managers, engineers, and other visual thinkers use Curio to develop ideas, collect sources, plan projects, take class notes, prepare presentations, and track work. --- FREE MODE AND 14-DAY TRIAL --- Curio is free to download. Explore the bundled Welcome to Curio project and create or edit your own projects with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects open read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing. Start a free 14-day trial when you first launch Curio, with all Professional features unlocked—no subscription required. After the trial, continue in free mode or choose a Standard or Professional monthly or yearly subscription. Any subscription you choose is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Mac App Store account settings. --- STANDARD VS. PROFESSIONAL --- Both Standard and Professional include: • Freeform idea spaces and rich text, Markdown, document, image, PDF, audio, and video figures • Mind maps, lists, tables, cards, albums, pinboards, stacks, Kanban boards, compositions, and focus mode • Shapes, lines, pens and brushes, equation editing, templates, stencils, and paragraph and character text styles • Search with tags, checklists, task priorities, ratings, resources, start/due dates, and regular expressions • A live word count with readability and sentiment details • Import and export options, PDF export, powerful PDF import, and Calendar and Reminders syncing • An integrated research browser with support for popular AI and web services • Native Shortcuts actions and a macOS Query widget Professional adds: • Smart Kanban boards and other query-based collections • Formulas in native and Markdown tables • Synced figure and collection instances, file-backed text, and sync file figures • Mermaid diagrams, syntax-highlighted code blocks, layers, and typed figure references • Project-wide status tracking and a macOS Status widget • Custom data, variables, master templates, presentation mode, custom appearance themes, project passwords, and more • Works with Curio CLI and its MCP server for Terminal and AI agent automation — a separate download that requires an active Professional subscription --- CHECK IT OUT --- Join thousands of customers worldwide who use Curio for information gathering, brainstorming, planning, and creative exploration. Download Curio and explore the Welcome project, documentation, and sample gallery to see what’s possible. Terms of Use: https://www.zengobi.com/legal/

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Curio 34.0.3: Fixed project loading hangs and crashes; improved figure sync and TaskPaper imports and exports; restored mind map branch colors. Curio 34 is packed with new ways to organize, connect, calculate, automate, and find your work. - Build Kanban boards that automatically group and sort work by priority, rating, tags, dates, and more. Professional adds Smart Kanban boards that gather matching items from across a project. - Add Excel-like formulas to native and Markdown tables in Professional, with structured references and common math, statistical, and formatting functions. - Sort native tables by any column while keeping header and footer rows fixed. - Keep copied lists, mind maps, and stacks linked with synced collection instances in Professional. - Attach typed figure references to Curio jump targets and web locations with the new Professional References panel. - Create project-specific tag sets with their own colors, ordering, and Kanban grouping. - Automate Curio with native macOS Shortcuts actions, built right in. Curio 34 also works with the new Curio CLI and its MCP server for Terminal scripts and AI agents — a separate download that requires an active Professional subscription. - Put project tasks and query results on your Desktop or in Notification Center with new macOS widgets. - Apply project-wide paragraph and character text styles, with new kerning, line-height, and paragraph-spacing controls. - Place adornments in 12 positions and optionally keep checkboxes in a separate left margin for cleaner task scanning. - Find content faster with improved relevance ranking, conservative fuzzy search, field autocomplete, and custom-data sorting. - Search the text inside your PDFs, documents, and images, including files embedded in your project, using Curio's own native extraction. - Follow connected idea graphs in Focus mode, view live word counts and readability details, and open local HTML files as interactive figures. - Return to a designated Home idea space with the new navigator Home button, and jump to any idea space from the context menu while presenting in Professional. - Enjoy new color tools and generated palettes, plus extensive improvements to Markdown, export, the Organizer, galleries, backups, macOS Tahoe support, performance, and reliability. Mac App Store notes: - You can now download Curio and begin a free 14-day trial without starting a subscription first. - The new File > Manage Authorized Folders command lets you review, add, and remove the folders Curio is allowed to access.

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Seller
Zengobi, Inc
Size
77.4 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
16+
  • 16+
  • Contains
    Unrestricted Web Access
    User-Generated Content
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Curio Professional $8.00
  • Curio Standard $6.00
  • Curio Professional $72.00
  • Curio Standard $60.00
Copyright
Copyright © 2026 Zengobi, Inc.