DEVONthink 4.0 Public Beta

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If you follow us on Mastodon or Bluesky or occasionally join our community in our forum, you’ve probably already guessed it. After a lot of tinkering, working and testing, we can finally make it official: DEVONthink 4 is now in public beta.

Our new generation of DEVONthink is more modern, smarter, and comes with countless new features — from support for generative AI models to versioning and audit-proof databases. We’ve also improved the text editors, created new automation capabilities, completely rewritten the web interface, redesigned the help, and much more.

Of course, you don’t have to buy Schrödinger’s cat in the box. You can thoroughly test-drive DEVONthink 4 including the functionality of all editions during the short beta phase. Take a look at the product page and download DEVONthink 4 today. It is now also available for purchase on our website.

Of course, if you already own DEVONthink 3, we’ve prepared discounted upgrade options for you. And if you’ve just recently purchased a license for DEVONthink 3: don’t worry, we’ve thought of you too!

Be Creative, Use AI

Integrate your preferred generative AI model into DEVONthink 4. Have texts summarized in chat, get tags assigned, or interactively ’talk to your documents‘. Search using natural language or incorporate AI actions into your automations. With image generation, create relevant visuals for your materials directly within the program.

DEVONthink supports online models such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Mistral AI as well as locally installed models via engines such as Ollama or LM Studio. You decide whether and how you want to use them. AI remains a private matter.

Perfectly Safe, Alone and in a Team

When you edit documents, DEVONthink 4 automatically keeps older versions of your documents, so you can return to them at any time. Audit-proof databases prevent documents from being edited and log deletions. They are the perfect place to store financial documents or other materials with special requirements.

Working in a team? DEVONthink 4 Server comes with a completely redesigned web interface and is even better designed for teamwork. From any number of workplaces, with any modern web browser on any operating system.

Search, Link, Automate

Search even more effectively; DEVONthink now finds PDFs even without prior OCR. Explore the connections between your documents in the new interactive Graph inspector and integrate AI actions into your automations, using new actions, triggers, and placeholders. Save frequently used batch processing workflows to quickly reuse them at any time.

A Flexible, Modern License Model

We released DEVONthink 3 six years ago now — time flies! To provide you with new versions more quickly in the future without having to save up features, we’re switching DEVONthink to a more flexible and modern license model. With the purchase of a license, you will now receive app updates for one year. After that year, you can extend the updates, but you don’t have to. If you don’t extend them, you can continue to use DEVONthink and extend at a later date.

You can use the public beta of DEVONthink 4 for free. However, if you want to purchase now, you won’t be at a disadvantage: you’ll receive one year of updates from the release of the final version.

Talk to Us

We sincerly hope that you’ll like DEVONthink 4 Public Beta! Feel free to discuss it with us and our community in our forum, talk about automations, or leave us feedback. If you notice any issues, need help with upgrading, or with your customer account, please contact us.