Software Alternatives & Reviews

Penzu

Keep all of your thoughts in one place using Penzu. The app is similar to a journal that you might write in but with a few modern touches that allow you to do everything from sending messages to decorating the pages.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Penzu

Simplenote Zim Wiki TakeNote Joplin wikidPad Leanote Journal Open Live Writer nvALT Flow

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Penzu are Simplenote, Zim Wiki, and TakeNote. 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. 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

  2. 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

  3. A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors

  4. 4
    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

  5. 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

  6. Leanote provides services for note and blog.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Journal

  7. Organize all your ideas
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Journal #Note Taking #Journaling

  8. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Journal

  9. 9
    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

  10. 10
    Stop managing projects from your inbox.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Work Collaboration 1 social mentions

  11. 11
    Outliner for notes, tasks and to-dos
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Office & Productivity 14 social mentions

  12. a non-linear personal web notebook
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions

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