Top 6 Open-Source Alternatives to Desk

Desk

An award-winning & beloved desktop publishing client, exclusively for OS X.

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Customer Service Customer Support Help Desk Journal Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Live Chat Markdown Editor Note Taking Task Management Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Desk are Open Live Writer, iA Writer, and osTicket. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Open Live Writer Landing Page
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Open Live Writer

Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Journal
iA Writer Landing Page
2

iA Writer

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $29.99 / One-off
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing 6 social mentions
osTicket Landing Page
3

osTicket

osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Customer Support #Customer Service #Help Desk 38 social mentions
crossnote.app
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Crossnote

Crossnote is probably the world's first markdown notes reader & editor Progressive Web Application that works offline and supports syncing with arbitrary git repository right inside your browser.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Task Management
Dendron Landing Page
5

Dendron

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base 21 social mentions
Foam Landing Page
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Foam

Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions