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nvALT is described as 'Fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads' and is a popular Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to nvALT for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Android, Linux and iPhone apps. The best nvALT alternative is Notesnook, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nvALT are Zettlr, Typora, CherryTree and Cryptee.
Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.




Note taking open-source application aimed to have both a simple interface but keeping smart behavior.







Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes.







Lightweight, fast, and can selectively use either Simplenote, local database or plaintext file storage for storing notes.
Just as lightweight as nvALT, supports saving notes to simple .txt files.


Almost everyone thinks ResophNotes is a great nvALT alternative.



GitJournal is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to nvALT.
Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.




Privacy oriented, without vendor lock in note organizer, todo list desktop application. Work offline with text, markdown and pdf files.




KeepNote: note-taking and organization. KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and

WizNote is a Note software, which is especially designed for Internet users and mobile Internet users. WizNote focuses more on notes of rapid collection, management, reading and sharing. WizNote is smaller, more stable, and more suitable for computers, phones and mobile devices.




Noteful is your one-stop note-taking app to experience the new paperless revolution on iPad.




Similar search and markdown capabilities. Supports SimpleNote and saving notes as individual .txt files. My main downside is that [[x]] search links are not supported.