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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    SuperMemo is a great tool for every serious student of medical sciences, languages, chemistry, biology, engineering, and all imaginable fields where durable long-term memory plays a significant role. SuperMemo's power is limited only by the size of your hard disk, available...

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    One platform to organize all your highlights - import Kindle highlights and annotate the web with the built-in highlighter.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
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    DoMarks is the to-do app for bookmarks. Add bookmarks. Categorize them. Check them off. Done!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Use Readit to save and manage your articles at a click of a button. Keep growing with your own library from everywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    This is a dead simple bookmarks app that lets you save the links on your device on the go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Neat Reader icon
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    If you’re looking for a free and easy-to-use online EPub reader that works seamlessly on all your devices, consider Neat Reader. You can use it for free across all devices. To use it on your browser, simply Open Web App.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    Lokinotes is a beautifully designed notes application that is created to be easy and simple to use. No bloat, it's just you and your notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Cardfile icon
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    Cardfile is a personal information manager, based on index cards, that was distributed with Microsoft Windows starting from the original version 1.01 until Windows NT 4.0 Server. Cardfile is also included with Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, but has to be installed...

    303 Cardfile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. WebBites icon
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    WebBites is a tool to keep all your favourite websites, tools and articles in one place, currently in beta. With a strong focus on accessibility and aesthetics.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Unit icon
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    Unit is a modern note-taking app that provides a completely new experience of creating, organizing and managing all your notes.

    258 Unit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    "SimpleNotes" lets you create, edit and organize all your notes anytime, anywhere. Easy switching between Desktop and Mobile. You can share your notes with everyone you want. The Website is free to use and a Desktop and Mobile APP is also available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
     
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