Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Standard Notes

Product categories

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Standard Notes are Joplin, Boostnote, and Trilium Notes. 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
Boostnote Landing Page
2

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
Trilium Notes Landing Page
3

Trilium Notes

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions
Logseq Landing Page
4

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
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
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
6

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
wikidPad Landing Page
7

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
FSNotes Landing Page
8

FSNotes

File system notes manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions
Notable App Landing Page
9

Notable App

The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions
nvALT Landing Page
10

nvALT

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
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
Elephant Landing Page
12

Elephant

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