Brainstorm’s shell hosts apps — and that’s all it does. Each app is a focused tool, sandboxed and independently updatable, and every app works over the same shared objects in your vault. Add the ones you want; ignore the rest.
Twenty first-party apps ship with the public beta. Each page below describes the app in full, with screenshots.
| App |
What it’s for |
| Notes |
A block editor with mentions, transclusion, and embeds. |
| Database |
Every object in your vault as a grid, board, calendar, or timeline. |
| Tasks |
Inbox, Today, boards, and timelines over shared Task objects. |
| Calendar |
Everything with a date, on one calendar. |
| Journal |
Daily entries with moods, habits, and streaks. |
| Contacts |
People and companies as real objects. |
| Bookmarks |
Save the web, keep it readable offline. |
| Files |
Browse and organize the whole vault. |
| Graph |
The shape of your vault, drawn live. |
| Whiteboard |
An infinite canvas next to your data. |
| App |
What it’s for |
| Agent |
AI chat grounded in your vault, under your permissions. |
| Automations |
Reviewable workflows that drive the other apps. |
| App |
What it’s for |
| Mailbox |
Email as vault objects — Gmail or any IMAP/SMTP account. |
| Browser |
Tabbed browsing that clips pages into your vault. |
| Chat |
Team channels over shared vault objects. |
| App |
What it’s for |
| Books |
Read EPUB and PDF, keep highlights. |
| Code Editor |
A real editor for code-shaped objects. |
| Form Designer |
Forms that create real objects — plus invoices to PDF. |
| Preview |
Quick previews for almost any file. |
| Theme Editor |
Design the OS you work in. |
An app can only touch what you allow. The first time an app needs a capability it asks, and you can review or revoke grants any time. See Apps & permissions.
