Choose mymind for a broader personal memory space
mymind is mature, polished, and designed for many kinds of saved knowledge. If you already have years of material there and its retrieval works for you, migrating solely for novelty is unlikely to be worth the disruption.
Choose Gather for visual search and AI handoff
Gather is narrower. It centers screenshots, photos, visual links, describe-what-you-remember search, and the moment a reference needs to move into Claude, Cursor, v0, or an MCP-compatible client.
- Visual-reference-first workflow
- Copy for AI beside the reference
- An open free tier with a fixed reference allowance
- Lower monthly Pro price
The honest recommendation
Keep mymind if it already returns what you save and you value its broader memory model. Try Gather if your biggest failure is finding visual references at build time or transferring them into AI-assisted design and development.
Takeaway
mymind is the stronger general-purpose incumbent; Gather is the more focused visual-to-AI workflow.