Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Workflowy

Product categories

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Workflowy are Simplenote, Notion, and Wekan. 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.

Simplenote Landing Page
1

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
Notion Landing Page
2

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
Wekan Landing Page
3

Wekan

The open-source Trello-like kanban (built with Meteor)
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Project Management #Task Management #Todos 28 social mentions
Org mode Landing Page
4

Org mode

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
5

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
Standard Notes Landing Page
6

Standard Notes

A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions
Logseq Landing Page
7

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
Redmine Landing Page
8

Redmine

Flexible project management web application
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Project Management #Task Management #Work Management 7 social mentions
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
9

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
Boostnote Landing Page
10

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
Turtl Landing Page
11

Turtl

The secure, collaborative notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly
#Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions
Zettlr Landing Page
12

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