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nvALT

A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to nvALT

Standard Notes Joplin Simplenote Zim Wiki FSNotes Zettlr Trilium Notes wikidPad Logseq Cryptee

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to nvALT are Standard Notes, 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.
  1. A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions

  2. 2
    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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions

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    Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions

  7. Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions

  8. 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

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    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

  10. 10
    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

  11. A smart notebook that grows and collaborates with you
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Writing #Writing Tools 8 social mentions

  12. QOwnNotes is a free plain-text notepad with markdown support for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with ownCloud Notes.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos

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