Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Recollectr

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Recollectr

Minimally disruptive, maximally efficient note-taking — record and recall without breaking your flow.

Product categories

Bookmarks Clipboard Manager Free Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Note Taking Notes Personal Notes Project Management Task Management Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Recollectr are Joplin, Typora, 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.

Joplin Landing Page
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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
Typora Landing Page
2

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 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
QuickJots Landing Page
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QuickJots

Jot down quick notes and auto-save them with QuickJots. Use GitHub Flavoured Markdown to easily embed images, or even task-lists to track to-dos. It's private — all notes stay local; no login or downloads are needed. There's a dark mode too!
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Task Management #Markdown Editor
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
Zim Wiki Landing Page
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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
FSNotes Landing Page
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FSNotes

File system notes manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions
iA Writer Landing Page
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iA Writer

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $29.99 / One-off
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing 6 social mentions
Logseq Landing Page
9

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
Clipy Landing Page
10

Clipy

Clipy is a clipboard extension for macOS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Clipboard Manager #Bookmarks #Note Taking 10 social mentions
Boostnote Landing Page
11

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
Tasks.org Landing Page
12

Tasks.org

Open-source, privacy-friendly to-do lists & reminders for Android. Supports Google Tasks, DAVx⁵, CalDAV, EteSync, and DecSync CC
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Todos #Reminders #Task Management 75 social mentions