Polar Alternatives

Polar is described as 'Powerful desktop app for managing all your web content, books, and notes. Polar keeps all your content in one place, supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress' and is a popular Read It Later tool in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Polar for a variety of platforms, including Mac, iPad, iPhone, Windows and Web-based apps. The best Polar alternative is calibre, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polar are Zotero, wallabag, TagSpaces and Instapaper.

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

    234 Noteful alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. Stagsi icon
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    Hackable SQLite-based tagging, any file format, with scripts and C# plugins, powerful search query language, 100k+ files managed with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. WebCrate icon
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    Group, organize and share links from around the web with WebCrate. It's more than just a bookmarking tool.

    134 WebCrate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Deta
     
  4. GoodLinks icon
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    Save links effortlessly. View them later, from anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. TakeNote icon
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    TakeNote was made by developers for developers - a simple, plain-text note-taking app for the web with Markdown support. What you see is what you paste. No WYSIWIG, no formatting pasted from the web, and no features you don't need or want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Reflect Notes icon
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    Give your brain superpowers. Mirror the way your mind works by associating notes through backlinks. Reflect builds you a second brain that you can reference anytime. Frictionless thought capture, instant sync, end-to-end encryption and seamless recall make using Reflect natural.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
     
  7. Notebook PEA icon
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    Protects your private notes with a password. Notebook PEA is a self-decrypting archive, that will never store unencrypted text on your disk.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Comments about Notebook PEA as an Alternative to Polar
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    Lacks most of the functions

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Notebook PEA is Free and Open SourcePolar is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Notebook PEA is Privacy focusedPolar is not according to our users
  8. Docspell icon
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    Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Tot icon
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    Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It’s your tiny text companion!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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