Submerse vs mymind

Submerse and mymind both keep what you save in one place, and both use AI to describe it so you can find it again. They differ in who your collection is for, how you organize it, what you start with, how much say you have over the AI, and how you pay.

Private, or shared

mymind is private by design. There are no shared collections; the most you can send someone is a single card. If you want a place no one else will ever see, that’s what it’s built for.

Submerse is for you and the people you collect with: a team, a class, a few friends. Keep a pool to yourself, invite people to look at it or add to it, or publish it as a page anyone can open, no account needed.

How you organize

mymind keeps organizing to a minimum. There are no folders: AI tags what you save, and you find it again by searching. You can also gather cards into spaces.

Submerse labels what you save too, and lets you organize as much or as little as you like in pools, your own collections: arrange one by hand, or let it fill itself by label.

Starting fresh, or bringing your library

mymind has you start fresh, on purpose: it leaves out a bulk import so your old clutter doesn’t come with you. Its beta API is the only way to bring things in bulk.

Submerse brings the library you already have: your browser’s bookmarks, a spreadsheet, or your Are.na channels. When you want to take it with you, export a spreadsheet of your bookmarks, or send your pools to Are.na.

Your say over the AI

mymind’s AI tags everything, reads the words in your pictures, and can summarize.

Submerse’s AI reads what you save too, and you decide how it works: rewrite the instructions it follows, or turn it off and label things yourself. Your own edits to a title or notes are never written over.

One plan, or several

mymind has a free plan for up to 100 cards, with most of its features, and three paid plans from $4.99 to $12.99 a month. Among the paid plans, summaries and Reading Mode’s saved copies of articles come with the top one, Mastermind. An unpaid account with more than 100 cards is suspended until you subscribe again.

Submerse has one plan, $8/month, with everything in it, and a 14-day free trial. If you stop paying, everything you saved stays and still opens; adding more needs the plan.

Where mymind is ahead

  • Apps. iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android, and its iPhone app works offline. Submerse is newer: the website, a Chrome extension, an iPhone app in beta and a command line, with Android coming in 2027.
  • Finding pictures by their colors or the things in them.
  • A free plan, and yearly prices.
  • Notes that link to one another.
  • An export with your files, and an API that lets AI assistants read and add to what you’ve saved (in beta).

Which one is for you

Choose mymind if you want a private place where AI does the organizing, with apps for iPhone, Mac and Android.

Choose Submerse if you want collections you shape and can share, the library you already have, and a say over the AI, all in one plan.

Moving from mymind

  1. Start with Submerse’s free trial, so your whole library fits: without a plan, an account holds 20 bookmarks. Make an account, then choose Subscribe in Settings → Billing.
  2. In mymind, export your mind from your account page, on a computer, in Chrome or Edge. You get a spreadsheet of your cards, and your images and PDFs as files.
  3. In Submerse, open the pool you want your links in and import the spreadsheet (Import/Export → Import from CSV). It reads the columns named url, title and notes, so rename a column if yours differ. Then drag the images and PDFs in.

Imported links keep their titles; choose Re-enrich on one to have it summarized. Note cards, and mymind’s tags and spaces, don’t come across this way, and the import counts each card with no link as failed, which is expected. If anything else doesn’t go in cleanly, write to support@submerse.it and we’ll help.

What this page says about mymind comes from mymind’s own site and help center, as they read on October 25, 2026. If something has changed, write to support@submerse.it and we’ll fix it.

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mymind is a trademark of mymind, Inc. Submerse isn’t made by or affiliated with mymind.