Obsidian Alternatives

The top-rated alternative to Obsidian is Logseq, which is free and open source. People also recommend Zettlr, sNotes – Students Notes, Anytype and Joplin. There's no shortage of Note-taking Tools like Obsidian, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, the web, Windows, Linux and Android.

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  1. Dark Note icon
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    Dark Note offers a wide range of features for taking notes, creating checklists, and keeping track of your budget. Its simple and elegant user interface makes it easy to use and navigate, allowing you to quickly and easily create and manage your notes + checklists.

    59 Dark Note alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  2. Quillpane icon
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    Quillpane, formerly Markpad, is a native desktop Markdown notepad for individual local files. Write in the editor, read the rendered preview, or use Split view to keep both visible. Notes remain ordinary files on your device, with recovery drafts, session restore, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Kraa.io icon
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    Kraa is for writing., It's a note-taking app, a text editor, a messaging app, a story book, a community hub, a shared document, a blogging platform, a family board, ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. PANACHES icon
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    PANACHES is a local-first desktop workspace for makers, writers, developers and multidisciplinary creators.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Anotalos icon
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    Advanced and fully featured notes app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. Built with the latest technologies to handle almost anything.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  6. OB Lite icon
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    OB Lite is a browser-based editor for Obsidian vaults that are synced through a GitHub repository. It connects to your repo with a GitHub App scoped to the single repository you choose, and lets you read, edit, create and organise your Markdown notes from a phone — without...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  7. Poznote icon
     1 like

    A free, open-source alternative to Notion, Obsidian, Evernote or OneNote. Your notes stay yours, whether you run it yourself or let a host run it for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  8. Asterive icon
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    A browser-first note-taking app with rich-text and Markdown editing, files, recordings, search, portable exports, and reviewable AI.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Intessika icon
     1 like

    Local full featured notes (text, md, rich, spreadsheet, draw) that sit next to the PDFs and Office files you already have, without rewriting them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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  10. Note Shuttle icon
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    Write Markdown, publish with one click. Time-limited burn-after-reading or permanently accessible links, with optional encryption — lightweight, secure, controllable.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. Native macOS Markdown editor that also renders Markdown files in the Finder and inside Xcode.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. ScribeDog icon
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    ScribeDog is a native desktop Markdown editor that renders your writing as a polished, WYSIWYG document — no raw # or * syntax in sight — while keeping every file a plain, portable .md file on disk.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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