Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Apple Notes

Product categories

AI Collaboration File Management Form Builder Markdown Editor Note Taking Notes Productivity Project Management Task Management Todos Writing Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Apple Notes are Simplenote, Skiff, and TakeNote. 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.

Simplenote Landing Page
1

Simplenote

The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Project Management 78 social mentions
Skiff Landing Page
2

Skiff

Simple & secure privacy-first notes and collaboration
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web App #Productivity #Writing Tools 47 social mentions
TakeNote Landing Page
3

TakeNote

A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors
Joplin Landing Page
4

Joplin

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
Boostnote Landing Page
5

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
Super Productivity Landing Page
6

Super Productivity

The simple free flexible ToDo List / Time Tracker / personal Jira and Github Task Manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #File Management #Project Management 25 social mentions
Taskwarrior Landing Page
7

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is an ambitious project bringing sophisticated capabilities to a simple and elegant...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Project Management #Task Management #Todos 53 social mentions
Trello Landing Page
8

Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $12.5 / Monthly (Per user - Business Class)
#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions
jstmstudio.tk
9

JstMStudio

Official website of JstMStudio. A multipurpose studio that focuses on many things, from web development to story writing. These websites include a multipurpose web app that could do many things, like note-taking and much more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Notes #Note Taking #Task Management
Turtl Landing Page
10

Turtl

The secure, collaborative notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly
#Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions
Mem Landing Page
11

Mem

Capture and access information from anywhere
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Task Management #Note 6 social mentions
Zim Wiki Landing Page
12

Zim Wiki

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions