Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to ColorNote

Product categories

Development IDE Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Personal Notes Task Management Text Editors Todos Tool

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to ColorNote are Simplenote, Notepad3, and Onivim 2. 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
Notepad3 Landing Page
2

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Onivim 2 Landing Page
3

Onivim 2

Onivim 2 is an advanced code editor that allows developers to make changes or rewrite the code text with comprehensive functionality and easy-to-use commands.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Text Editors #Tool 6 social mentions
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
Obsidian.md Landing Page

5

Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions
SubEthaEdit Landing Page
6

SubEthaEdit

SubEthaEdit Homepage
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Tool #Security & Privacy #Text Editors 2 social mentions
OnlineNotepad.org Landing Page
7

OnlineNotepad.org

Free browser-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Notes
GitJournal Landing Page
8

GitJournal

Manage your Notes from any Git Repo.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Personal Notes #Notes 23 social mentions
Notesnook Landing Page
9

Notesnook

Notesnook is a simple and private note taking app that keeps your notes organized and synced on your phone, tablet and computer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $4.49 / Monthly (UI Themes & accents)
#Notes #Personal Notes #Note Taking 84 social mentions
Trilium Notes Landing Page
10

Trilium Notes

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions
Zim Wiki Landing Page
11

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
Notable App Landing Page
12

Notable App

The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions