DEVONthink comes in a number of flavors tailored to different needs and user types:

• DEVONthink Pro Office: Plus paperless office functionality
• DEVONthink Pro: Advanced functionality, office use
• DEVONthink Personal: Home and small office
• DEVONnote: Basic note taking and organizing

The following table shows how DEVONthink Professional Office, DEVONthink Professional, DEVONthink Personal, and DEVONnote, compare to each other.

Our interactive product guide may also give you a hint at which edition of DEVONthink or DEVONnote you need.

Supported File Types

DEVONthink
Pro Office

DEVONthink
Professional

DEVONthink
Personal

DEVONnote

All file types supported by the Quick Look mechanism

Indexing unsupported file types through Spotlight

Plain and simple text, RTF/RTFD, text clippings

X

X

X

X

Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

X

X

Word as RTF

OpenOffice.org documents

X

X

X

Write as RTF

iWork documents (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)

X

X

X

-

Bookmarks

X

X

X

X

HTML, XML

X

X

X

As plain text

Web archives

X

X

X

-

Chatlogs

Adium

X

X

-

-

BluePhone Elite

X

X

-

-

iChat

X

X

X

X

Second Life

X

X

-

-

Yahoo Messenger

X

X

X

X

AppleScripts

X

X

X

X

BibTeX files

X

X

As plain text

As plain text

Images

X

X

X

-

PDF, EPS, PostScript files

X

X

X

-

Multimedia files

X

X

X

-

CSV/TSV files

X

X

As plain text

As plain text

Browser Bookmarks

Import

Import

Import

Import

iPod Classic (notes)

Export

Export

Export

Export

Web Site (HTML)

Export

Export

Export

Export

Address Book

Import

Import

-

-

iData 3

Import

Import

-

-

OPML

X

X

-

-

Skim

X

X

X

-

Views

List

X

X

X

-

Icons

X

X

X

-

Columns

X

X

X

-

Split

X

X

X

X

Three panes

X

X

X

X

Separate document windows

X

X

X

X

Full screen mode

X

X

X

X

Data Capture

Drag-and-drop

X

X

X

X

Dock menu

X

X

X

X

Services menu

X

X

X

X

Bookmarklets

X

X

X

-

Sorter

X

X

-

-

Destination Selector

X

X

X

X

Pro Office Only Features

Email archive

X

-

-

-

Scanner support

X

-

-

-

Fujitsu ScanSnap support

X

-

-

-

Image Capture support

X

-

-

-

TWAIN support

X

-

-

-

Optical character recognition

X

-

-

-

Web sharing

X

-

-

-

Web application

X

-

-

-

Web application (iPhone)

X

-

-

-

Simple search interface

X

-

-

-

Advanced Features

Advanced search

X

X

X

X

AppleScript support

X

X

-

-

Script menu with many useful scripts

X

X

-

-

Finder actions

X

X

-

-

Triggered scripts

X

X

-

-

Automatic classification

X

X

X

-

Automatic grouping

X

X

-

-

Automator actions

X

X

-

-

Concordance

X

X

-

-

Cover Flow

X

X

X

-

Dashboard widgets

X

X

X

-

Document templates

User-defined templates

X

X

X

X

Smart templates

X

X

No scripting

No scripting

Download manager

X

X

-

-

Editable properties

PDF properties

X

X

X

-

RTF/RTFD properties

X

X

X

X

External editing

X

X

X

-

File indexing, Synchronizing

X

X

X

-

Groups Panel

X

X

X

-

History

X

X

X

-

Image editing

X

X

X

-

Inbox, Trash

X

X

X

X

Log

X

X

X

X

Multiple databases

X

X

-

-

Offline archiving

X

X

-

-

PDF annotations

X

X

X

-

RSS/RDF/Atom news feeds

X

X

-

-

Sheets

X

X

-

-

Smart groups

X

X

X

X

Smart tagging

X

X

X

X

Spotlight support

X

X

X

X

Summarize text

X

X

X

-

Support for
read-only volumes

X

X

-

-

Tabbed browsing

X

X

X

X

URLs for stored documents

X

X

X

X