Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Drafts

Product categories

Analytics Data Dashboard DevOps Tools Developer Tools Knowledge Management Note Taking Notes Personal Notes Project Management Task Management Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Drafts are Simplenote, Joplin, and Smart Text Editor. 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
Joplin Landing Page
2

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
stedit.app
3

Smart Text Editor

The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web App #Open Source #Developer Tools
FSNotes Landing Page
4

FSNotes

File system notes manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions
Typora Landing Page
5

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
Logseq Landing Page
6

Logseq

Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions
Org mode Landing Page
7

Org mode

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions
Taskwarrior Landing Page
8

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
Todo.txt Landing Page
9

Todo.txt

Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Todos #Project Management 37 social mentions
nvALT Landing Page
10

nvALT

A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Personal Notes 10 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
Reflect Landing Page
12

Reflect

Reflect is a note-taking tool designed to mirror the way your brain works.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Analytics #DevOps Tools 1 social mentions