What Google Keep is
AlternativeTo files Google Keep under Note-taking, Todo List Manager. It is recorded as Free, Proprietary, from United States. It ships on Mac, Windows, Linux, Online, Android, iPhone, Chrome OS, Android Tablet and 3 more. The topics its entry raises are sync, collaboration and voice.
That is our reading of the record. For AlternativeTo's own wording, see its page for Google Keep — the facts above were read on 2026-08-16.
| Price | Free |
|---|---|
| Licence | Proprietary |
| Category | Note-taking, Todo List Manager |
| Origin | United States |
| Platforms | Mac, Windows, Linux, Online, Android, iPhone, Chrome OS, Android Tablet, iPad, Google Chrome, Android Wear |
What SumizAI is
A note-taking application built around a conversation with an AI model. You ask a question, the answer streams back, and the answers worth keeping become Markdown notes — filed into a vault that is a folder on your own disk.
A vault is a directory holding base.md, a generated table of contents up to six levels deep, and a notes/ folder with one .md file per note. Before a note is written it is checked against the ones already there, so the fourth note about the same idea gets merged instead of added. Links between notes are ordinary Markdown links to files that exist.
The model is never ours: you bring your own API key to one of seven providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, a local Ollama or your own server — and pay that provider directly. A question sends the table of contents plus at most five relevant notes within a 24,000-character budget, and the app shows you which five it used.
Side by side
| Side by side | SumizAI | Google Keep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1/month, one plan, 7-day trial without a card | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android | Mac, Windows, Linux, Online, Android, iPhone, Chrome OS, Android Tablet… |
| Category | Note-taking — AI chat into Markdown | Note-taking, Todo List Manager |
| Where notes live | Standard .md files in a folder you choose | AlternativeTo does not say |
| AI model | Seven providers, always on your own API key | Its description does not mention AI |
| Origin | Poland, EU | United States |
Where they differ
- AlternativeTo's description of Google Keep does not mention an AI model. That is the whole starting point in SumizAI: you have a conversation with a model on your own API key, and the answers worth keeping become notes without you filing them.
- Google Keep is free and SumizAI costs a dollar a month after a seven-day trial that takes no card. A dollar is what it costs to run accounts and licences without reselling the model; if free is the requirement, Google Keep wins that row outright.
- AlternativeTo's description of Google Keep does not mention Markdown, so check what format your notes end up in before you fill it up. SumizAI writes standard
.mdfiles to a folder you picked, and an unpaid account can still export all of them. - Google Keep is described as something more than one person uses at once. SumizAI is not: there are no shared vaults, no comments, no permissions and no sync between devices. If the work is a team's, that is a reason to pick Google Keep over SumizAI.
- Google Keep's description mentions voice. SumizAI has no voice input and no transcription — the input is a typed conversation.
Which one to pick
Reasons to pick Google Keep
- it costs nothing
- more than one person works in the same notes
- you need it to run in a browser
Reasons to pick SumizAI
- the notes you want already exist inside conversations with an AI model
- you want the filing — title, chapter, duplicate check — to happen without you
- you want the result as plain
.mdfiles in a folder you picked - you would rather pay your AI provider directly than have a note app resell the model
Facts about Google Keep: AlternativeTo, read 2026-08-16. SumizAI is not affiliated with Google Keep, and the name is used only to identify the product being compared.
Taken from the AlternativeTo lists: Obsidian.