Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Roam Research

Product categories

AI Content Collaboration Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Note Taking Notes Personal Knowledge Base Personal Notes Productivity Task Management Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Roam Research are Notion, Logseq, and Joplin. 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.

Notion Landing Page
1

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
Logseq Landing Page
2

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
Joplin Landing Page
3

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
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
4

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
Zettlr Landing Page
5

Zettlr

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
Foam Landing Page
6

Foam

Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions
Standard Notes Landing Page
7

Standard Notes

A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions
Typora Landing Page
8

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
Org mode Landing Page
9

Org mode

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions
Mem Landing Page
10

Mem

Capture and access information from anywhere
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Task Management #Note 6 social mentions
Notabase.io Landing Page
11

Notabase.io

Notabase is a powerful and easy-to-use note-taking app for networked thinking. Connect your ideas together and write more effortlessly.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Knowledge Base 8 social mentions
QuickJots Landing Page
12

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