Apple Notes

Use Notes to capture a quick thought, create checklists, sketch ideas, and more. And with iCloud, you can keep your notes up to date across all your devices.

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use notes to capture a quick thought, create checklists, sketch ideas, and more. and with icloud, you can keep your notes up to date across all your devices.

with notes in ios 9 and os x el capitan and later, you can turn a list into an interactive checklist with a single tap. or easily add a photo, map, or url to a note. you can even draw a sketch with your finger on your iphone, ipad, and ipod touch. and thanks to icloud, everything in your notes are kept up to date across all your devices. so you can create a note on your mac and check it on your iphone when you’re on the go.

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The Best 34 Apple Notes Alternatives

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Evernote

Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Blackberry Windows RT

IFTTT integration Works Offline Automatic attachment management Cloud sync Export to iCalendar Google Drive integration MarkDown support Nested Notebooks Owncloud integration Sync with Owncloud PDF annotation Sync between devices Tag based Text formatting Web clipper
798 Like

Microsoft OneNote

A digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. .

Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone iPad Windows RT Windows Phone Apple Watch

IFTTT integration Cloud sync Web clipper Auto saving Automatic Tagging Embedded media Handwritten Notes Hierarchical structure Legacy Firefox Addon Screenshot OCR Search by tags Support for styluses Subtasks Voice recognition WYSIWYG Support
508 Like

Google Keep

Google Keep has several features including color coding notes, inserting images, creating lists, geo-fencing, shareable notes, and search by color.

Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Real time collaboration Sync with Google Calendar Handwriting recognition Html parsing Share notes Sync on many devices Voice Notes
488 Like

Laverna

laverna is a javascript note taking application with markdown editor and encryption support. consider it like open source alternative to evernote.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

Works Offline Cloud sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Support for Keyboard Shortcuts AES encryption Dropbox integration Dropbox syncing Encrypted Notes Support for LaTeX No registration required Protected by Password Syntax Highlighting Tags Feature
354 Like

Simplenote

made by the company behind wordpress , simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas, and more. your notes stay updated across all your devices. no buttons to press. it just works.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web Mac

MarkDown support Sync between devices Tag based Search by tags Electron based File Versioning
336 Like

Zim

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Text formatting Hierarchical structure WYSIWYG Support Sync with Dropbox File Versioning Nested Notes
213 Like

Standard Notes

Love Notes. Love Encryption. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work. It's simple. Standard Notes is the easiest notes app you'll ever use.

Freemium Open Source

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Privacy focused Privacy protection Security focused Ad free Works Offline Android Sync Cloud sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Tag based Sync with Dropbox AES encryption Encrypted Notes Client side encryption Decentralized End to end encryption Cross platform Very strong privacy Clean design Content Filtering Local Storage Nested Folders Plain text authoring Plugin support Privacy Protected Real time sync
148 Like

CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Portable Multiple languages Integrated Search Tablet support Export to PDF Syntax Highlighting Data portability
89 Like

Turtl

Turtl is a private place to keep your notes, research, passwords, bookmarks, dream logs, photos, documents and anything else you want kept safe.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Chrome Self-Hosted Firefox

Privacy protection Android Sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Real time collaboration Sync on many devices Encrypted Notes Client side encryption End to end encryption Data portability Password encryption
45 Like

Nimbus Note

Nimbus Note is an easy way to take notes and capture text/pictures from Web pages.

Freemium Windows Android iPhone Chrome OS Web Windows Phone Chrome Chromium

Capture Screen / Take screenshots IFTTT integration Works Offline Web clipper Integrated Search Search by tags Share notes Nested Folders Audio recording Location based reminders Photo notes Sync across Devices
35 Like

TreeDBNotes

TreeDBNotes is a powerful and easy-to-use personal database program, Word Processor with Tree Structure. User interface in 21 languages available.

Freemium Windows

Portable Multiple languages
25 Like

The Guide

The Guide is a two-pane outliner - a program that allows you to arrange text notes in a tree-like structure. It supports formatted text, exporting to RTF and hyperlinks (both internal and external).

Free Open Source Windows
13 Like

Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

MarkDown support Encrypted Notes End to end encryption Sync with Onedrive
4 Like

Agenda Mahala

Agenda Mahala is a great website to Learn English. On Agenda Mahala we have great English Courses, and both Level 1 and Level 2 are completely free. You also get an online notebook to keep the lesson appointments.

Free Web
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Knowte

Knowte is a note taking application that allows you to quickly and easily write and organize your notes. What makes it especially useful, is the search feature.

Free Open Source Windows

Customizable Portable Works Offline
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Scarlet Notes (Former Material Notes)

Material Notes offers a simple no hassle interface for adding notes in a beautiful material design.

Freemium Android

Works Offline Cloud sync MarkDown support Text formatting Night mode
2 Like

Miya Notes for Google Keep

«Miya Notes for Google Keep» is the easiest and the most convenient way to access Google Keep Notes on your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X
2 Like

Collate

Collate is a cross platform note application that puts your data back in your control. You can feel secure with your data in Collate. Take notes your way with Collate...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

File sync Web clipper Export to PDF
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Cylix

Fast encrypted cross platform note taking and document management application. Create, organise and centralise documents. Save anything from text, pdf, code snippets...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

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The Best 34 Apple Notes Alternatives

Evernote

Microsoft OneNote

Google Keep

Laverna

Simplenote

Zim

Standard Notes

CherryTree

Turtl

Nimbus Note

TreeDBNotes

The Guide

Joplin

Agenda Mahala

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Scarlet Notes (Former Material Notes)

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