Obsidian Alternatives
The most popular alternative is Joplin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 49 alternatives to Obsidian so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Obsidian alternatives are Evernote (Freemium), Notion (Freemium), Typora (Free) and Standard Notes (Freemium, Open Source).
- An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities.anJoplin has a fracture of the features of Obsidian which is no wonder since Obsidian aims to become a powerful desktop knowledge base, unlike Joplin. For one thing, Joplin focuses on mobile<->desktop syncing and not on effective internal linking. They're similar at first glance only.
Joplin is taking shots at Evernote, not Obsidian. - Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
Obsidian claims to keep your data as .md plain files, locally. - With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all.
- A markdown editor, markdown reader.
- Standard Notes is a simple and private notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser.
- A desktop personal wiki with inline preview as-you-type and lots of plugins.
- Zettlr is a supercharged markdown editor that combines many writing editor features and collect them in one application.
Offers back-linking just like Obsidian does but it is Open-Source. Obsidian is proprietary software.GuGood alternative to Obsidian but backlinks are not as magic as in Obsidian. If you rename a file it will not modify links. You cannot link to a specific header. You need to use some ID which is a bit troublesome at first. Also you don't have a graph showing you all the links. But as this is Opensource, this is the best alternative to Obsidian which is closed source. - A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.
- Plain text notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with the notes application of ownCloud.Pretty similar concept, both deal with plain .md files, both render in real time, both have automatically-generated TOCs, etc., but QOwnNotes is Free Software, no EULA non-sense, you have a tool without restrictions.
- Bear is a beautiful and flexible writing app for note-taking and prose, both on the go for iOS devices and for the Mac OS desktop.KEY FEATURESBi-directional linking and tags might be the only thing that relate these two, but it's more relation that every other entry on this list.