Apps with 'Text formatting' feature
- 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, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Termux
- Firefox
- Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
- With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Microsoft OneNote, part of the Microsoft Office Suite, is a digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
- Kindle Fire
- Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
- Kindle Fire
- Pebble
- Google Docs is an online word processor, part of Google Drive, that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type.
- LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to create a document in LaTeX, a .
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- RemNote is the note-taking tool that gives you memory superpowers. It automatically generates flashcards from your notes and figures out the optimal time to practice each flashcard so you don't forget what you've learned.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Google Chrome
- Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last update was in Dec 2004. The original app is no longer developed but the Markdown language continues in use and support through many other projects.
- Notezilla is the leading sticky notes app for Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad and the web. Set reminders to sticky notes, Pin sticky notes, attach them to websites, docs & folders, sync between PCs and other devices, organize using folders and tags.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.
- An online word processor that lets you create and edit documents in your web browser and save them in the cloud, so that you can share them with anyone. Zoho can allow multiple users to work on a document simultaneously.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- KeyNote NF is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application.
- Spaced-repetition app, the best for scientists and coders. With rich formatting, with images, with code formatting, with formulas, with multiple flashcard types. Entirely free, open-source.
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted