Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Notability

Notability

Combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring your projects to life. Use a wide range of note-taking and sketching tools to capture every detail. You can even add and annotate PDFs in Notability.

Product categories

Classroom Management Cloud Storage Collaboration Documents Note Taking Notes Productivity Project Management Task Management Text Editors Todos Writing Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Notability are Simplenote, Skiff, and Curvenote. 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
Curvenote Landing Page
3

Curvenote

Write, share & remix ideas from Jupyter Notebooks
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Writing Tools #Education 18 social mentions
TakeNote Landing Page
4

TakeNote

A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors
Notion Landing Page
5

Notion

All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 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
#File Management #Task 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
Joplin Landing Page
8

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
wikidPad Landing Page
9

wikidPad

wikidPad is an application for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else that user can think of to write down.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Task Management 17 social mentions
Zim Wiki Landing Page
10

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
Turtl Landing Page
11

Turtl

The secure, collaborative notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly
#Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions
Cryptee Landing Page
12

Cryptee

Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €3.0 / Monthly (10GB)
#Photos #Note Taking #Cloud Storage 79 social mentions