The Best 280 Microsoft OneNote Alternatives

  • Bear icon

    Bear

    Bear is a beautiful and flexible writing app for note-taking and prose, both on the go for iOS devices and for the Mac OS desktop. KEY FEATURES - Stay organized by linking notes to each other.

    Freemium

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    ColorNote

    ColorNote is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, email, message, shopping lists and todo lists. ColorNote makes taking a note easier than any other notepad apps.

    Free Android Android Tablet

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    nvPY

    nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes. It syncs with simplenote, and runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Tracks icon

    Tracks

    Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology.

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

  • TreePad icon

    TreePad

    A free and lightweight outliner, only 465KB in size. It allows you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple plain-text databases.

    Free Personal Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

  • Awesome Note icon

    Awesome Note

    Awesome Note is an innovative note taking application and to-do manager that allows you to combine notes with to-do flexibility.

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • To Round icon

    To Round

    To Round is an easy-to-use task manager for iOS and Android with clear interface, designed for visual thinkers.

    Free Android iPhone

  • The Guide icon

    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

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    MyTetra

    MyTetra is open source and cross platform personal manager for information accumulation. It is powerful program for data memorization and structuring notes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Stylus Labs Write icon

    Stylus Labs Write

    Write is a word processor for handwriting, designed primarily for tablets with an active stylus. Write has the functionality of a vector drawing application, plus a set of tools which ease the editing of handwritten text.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Android

    Handwritten Notes Export to PDF
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    Cronycle

    Cronycle is a content research platform for professionals. Create custom feeds to keep up to date on any topic you choose, and then collaborate with your team to annotate the best content relevant to a research project.

    Freemium iPhone Web

    Real time collaboration Twitter integration
  • GNotes icon

    GNotes

    GNotes is an Android notepad/notebook that can synchronize with Google GMail. GNotes is a notepad design in mind for easy note-taking. What it do is to help you taking notes easily on mobile phone and sync all of your notes with GMail.

    Freemium Android iPhone Web Chrome

    Handwritten Notes Voice Notes
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    Bluenote

    Beautifully designed notes, tasks and passwords organizer in a single app. Bluenote automatically encrypts, saves and syncs on the fly. Use Bluenote to: ¦ Manage your notes, task lists and passwords all from one app.

    Commercial Mac OS X

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    myBase

    myBase is a unique freeform database software that creates full-text searchable databases and organizes information in the tree-structured outline form, along with capability of capturing information from a variety of data sources such as...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    Notebooks

    Notebooks allows you to create as many books as you need. Notebooks stores and displays almost any type of document: plain text and formatted text, PDF, web pages, MS Office or iWork documents, photos, videos, music and much more.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad

    Support for WebDAV List management