Top 9 Open-Source Alternatives to Notes Taking

Product categories

Collaboration Databases Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Personal Notes Productivity Project Management Task Management Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Notes Taking are Orgzly, Joplin, and Simplenote. 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.

Orgzly Landing Page
1

Orgzly

Outliner for notes, tasks and to-dos
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Office & Productivity 14 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
Simplenote Landing Page
3

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
Zim Wiki Landing Page
4

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
Notesnook Landing Page
5

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
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
Dendron Landing Page
7

Dendron

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Office & Productivity 21 social mentions
Hive Landing Page
8

Hive

Seamless project management and collaboration for your team.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- $12.0 / Monthly (Per user)
#Productivity #Project Management #Task Management 9 social mentions
Notion Landing Page
9

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