nvALT Alternatives

Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.

A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application

Fast & clean-looking note-taking app for macOS that helps writers write and think more.

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.

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Get the OneNote app for free on your tablet, phone, and computer, so you can capture your ideas and to-do lists in one place wherever you are. Or try OneNote with Office for free.

The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.

Bear is a flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.

nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes.

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

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.

Capture notes, share them with others, and access them from your computer, phone or tablet. Free with a Google account.

Unclutter is an app that is designed to help Mac users bring order to their desktop. Among other features, this powerful piece of software provides quick access to a user's notepad and clipboard.