Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to OneNote Online

Product categories

Cloud Storage Content Collaboration Documents Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Note Taking Notepad Notes Personal Notes Task Management Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to OneNote Online are Joplin, Simplenote, and OnlineNotepad.org. 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.

Joplin Landing Page
1

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
2

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
OnlineNotepad.org Landing Page
3

OnlineNotepad.org

Free browser-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Notes
wikidPad Landing Page
4

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
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
5

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
Zim Wiki Landing Page
6

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
Cryptee Landing Page
7

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
Notesnook Landing Page
8

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
Elephant Landing Page
9

Elephant

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Task Management
MindForger Landing Page
10

MindForger

Thinking notebook and Markdown IDE web site home page
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Todos
Foam Landing Page
11

Foam

Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions
GitJournal Landing Page
12

GitJournal

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