A beautifully designed, native plaintext note-taking app for macOS 13+. No rich text errors, no distractions—just fast, lightweight notes that stay private.
United States
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Curiota Alternatives
Curiota is described as 'Free, fast, always available, easy to use macOS app for taking quick notes and collecting files. Instead of a proprietary database, Curiota uses standard file formats, a completely open file hierarchy, and Spotlight' and is a Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Curiota for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Android, Windows, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Curiota alternative is Joplin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Curiota are Standard Notes, Notesnook, Zettlr and Google Keep.
Alternatives list
159 ColorNote alternativesColorNote is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, email, message, shopping lists and todo lists. ColorNote makes taking a note easier than any other notepad apps.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
+5
Privacy oriented, without vendor lock in note organizer, todo list desktop application. Work offline with text, markdown and pdf files.
+2
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
+3
Quillpad is a fork of an original app called Quillnote. The development stopped on the original app and PR backlogs were not cleared up. The community showed much interest in the app for continued development and so this fork was created.
+1
63 Noto alternativesNoto is an opensource minimal Note-Taking app that meets customer expectations with privacy in mind.
+5
Prism is for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free — unlimited notes, AI tags, and sync.
+6
NoteGlow is a beautiful and elegant Mac Sticky Note app. Making the notes always visible on desktop or in menubar.
PrivateNotes (formerly Exocortex) is an encrypted note-taking app designed for networked thought. It allows you to link ideas together, creating a web of interconnected notes that mimic how your mind works.
Iotas is a simple but elegant solution for notes especially but not only for GNOME users. Through Nextcloud integration, all notes can be kept in sync and accessed on different devices.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Linux Mobile
+3
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Alerts
- Warning
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
+3
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