Notepad App Alternatives

Notepad App is described as 'A markdown-based notes app for macOS, with simplicity and moderation' and is a Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Notepad App for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Notepad App alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like Notepad App are Joplin, Google Keep, Notesnook and Zettlr.

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  1. Marknote icon
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    Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips.

    104 Marknote alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. StackEdit icon
     90 likes

    Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.

    82 StackEdit alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  3. iA Writer icon
     96 likes

    The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.

    122 iA Writer alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Ulysses icon
     70 likes

    Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.

    134 Ulysses alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Quoll Writer icon
     41 likes

    Focus on your words not the interface. Quoll Writer is a writing application that helps you focus on your words. Clean and uncluttered. Feature rich. Features are where you would expect them to be.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. novelWriter icon
     28 likes

    novelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.

    70 novelWriter alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Python
     
  7. Roam Research icon
     58 likes

    As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

    170 Roam Research alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  8. VNote icon
     40 likes

    A Vim-inspired note-taking application that knows programmers and Markdown better.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  9. Daino Notes icon
     9 likes

    Offers fast, distraction-free note-taking via a high-performance editor with real-time Markdown, local-first storage, image support, Kanban task boards, intuitive drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts, configurable themes, fast search, and cross-platform access.

    83 Daino Notes alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Tenno icon
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    A live editable Markdown editor that lets you add cells like Excel. You can think of Tenno as a mix of Word and Excel with a touch of Obsidian, Markdown and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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