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QOwnNotes Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to QOwnNotes for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, iPhone and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to QOwnNotes.

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 If your looking for more info about QOwnNotes like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 10/8/2018 4:48:00 PM

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Custom Language Definitions Autocompletion Block edit ... Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature

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- Despite its name, it's not a note taking app at all. Guest • Jan 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Evernote

Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving. The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Blackberry Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear Kindle Fire Pebble
Cloud sync Works Offline Sync between devices Text formatting ... Export to iCalendar Google Drive integration IFTTT integration MarkDown support Nested Notebooks Works Offline Owncloud integration Sync with Owncloud PDF annotation Tag based Web clipper Add a feature

2289 Like
Google Keep

Google Keep is a service provided by Google which integrates note-taking and web surfing. Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or take a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is available instantly on all your devices – desktop and mobile.

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome Android Wear
Share notes Sync on many devices Google Chrome extension Sync with Google Calendar ... Handwriting recognition Html parsing Integrated Search Location-based reminders Works Offline Periodic reminders Photo notes Real time collaboration Real-Time Synchronization To-Do management Voice Notes Add a feature

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Simplenote

Made by the company behind WordPress , Simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas, and more. Your notes stay updated across all your devices. No buttons to press. It just works. Your notes are synced across your devices when you create, add to or change them. Registration is required but the app and service are free.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Kindle Fire
Cloud sync Protected by Password Search by tags Sync with Simplenote ... Electron based File Versioning Integrated Search MarkDown support Notes synchronisation Rewind the changes Sync between devices Tag based Text Based Format Version and Source control Web Access Add a feature

387 Like
Zim

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note" button, by linking to a non-existing page or by writing a CamelCase name in any note.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
File Versioning Sync with Dropbox Git integration Hierarchical structure ... Lightweight Nested Notes Plain text file Portable Save as txt Text formatting Wiki-like interface WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

361 Like
Standard Notes

Love Notes. Love Encryption. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work. It's simple. Standard Notes is the easiest notes app you'll ever use. That means a more reliable, long-term experience. Encrypted writing is your best writing. You never really know the power of your words until you experience total-privacy for the first time.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted
End-to-end encryption Encrypted Notes AES encryption MarkDown support ... Cloud sync Privacy focused Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Security focused Clean design Tag based Ad-free Android Sync Both window and android format Client side encryption Content Filtering Decentralized Sync with Dropbox Linux Client Local Storage Nested Folders Works Offline Password encryption Plain text authoring Plugin support Privacy Protected Real-time sync Search by tags Sync between devices Add a feature

268 Like
CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Hierarchical structure Infinite hierarchical depth Data portability Export to HTML ... Integrated Search Multiple languages Password encryption Portable Export to PDF Syntax Highlighting Tablet support Add a feature

166 Like
TagSpaces

TagSpaces is an open source personal data manager. It helps you organize and browse your files on every platform. Cross-platform file tagging and file finding Organize your photos, ebooks, music, recipes or invoices in the same way on almost every platform. We currently support Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, Firefox and Chrome With the help of tags you can do research better or you can manage projects using the GTD methodology.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet Self-Hosted Chrome Firefox
File Tagging File-organization Works Offline Tag based ... Automatic file renaming Support for Batch Mode Built-in editor Built-in Note Taker Chromecast support Color coding Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File preview File Searching Hierarchical structure Indexed search Information aggregator Local Storage MarkDown support Visual Tagging Support for WebDAV Add a feature

113 Like
Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome Firefox
End-to-end encryption MarkDown support Cloud sync Built-in Terminal ... Google Chrome extension E2e encryption Embedded media Encrypted Notes Evernote import File Tagging Firefox extension Full text search Local Storage Nextcloud integration Works Offline Protected by Password Periodic reminders Support for NodeJS Sync with OneDrive Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based To-Do management Add a feature

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Tomboy

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems? Time for Tomboy. We bet you'll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Automatic link generation Local Storage Symbolic links Add a feature

226 Like
Notezilla

Take quick notes on Post-It(r) like sticky notes on Windows desktop, stick those notes to websites, documents & folders. Set reminder alarm to each sticky note. To avoid desktop clutter, you can organize those sticky notes inside folders. Send sticky notes to another computer over local network (LAN) or Internet, Sync sticky notes between computers using the Notezilla.

Commercial Windows Web Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Android Sync Auto-saving Clean design Cloud sync ... Compatible with touchscreen Drag n drop Encrypted Notes Goal Tracking Hierarchical structure Sync with iCloud iPhone/iPod sync Kanban boards Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Lightweight List management Works Offline Optimized for Windows Password encryption Protected by Password Periodic reminders Photo notes Real time collaboration Recurring tasks Search by tags Share notes Skinnable Sync across Devices Sync between devices Sync on many devices Sits in the System Tray Tag based Task assignments Text formatting Timer for tasks Add a feature

393 Like
NixNote

NixNote, formerly Nevernote, is an open source client for Evernote . It is written in Java so it will also run on Windows & OS-X, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable environment for Linux. Features Synchronizes with Evernote servers Local data caching Cross platform Local-only and synchronized notebooks supported Database may be encrypted locally

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

96 Like
nvALT

nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads.

Free Open Source Mac
Integrated Search MarkDown support Sync with Simplenote Add a feature

53 Like
Leanote

Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog. The code of Leanote can be found on Github but you have to pay to get the app from the official website, hence this freemium license.

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted
MarkDown support Sequence Diagrams Export to HTML Full text search ... Latex Math Nested Notebooks Portable Export to PDF Add a feature

39 Like
ResophNotes

Quick Notes on Windows Features •Simple and fast notes on Windows •Sync online with Simplenote •Support proxy (require HTTPS protocol) •Optional Proxy username and password •Access notes on iPhone and iPad through Simplenote app •Portable version suitable for flash drive •Support relative path from ResophNotes.exe (no modification on host computer)

Free Windows
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Lightweight MarkDown support Plain text authoring ... Portable Progressive search Proxy support Sync with Simplenote Add a feature

73 Like
KeyNote NF

KeyNote NF is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application. The basic idea in KeyNote NF is that you can include many separate notes within a single file. This means that you do not need to open several files - for most purposes it is enough to create only one file and hold all your notes inside it.

Free Open Source Windows
Tree view Encrypted Notes Multiple languages Tabbed interface ... Text formatting Add a feature

79 Like
Zoho Notebook

Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more. Online Collaboration: You can share a single image or selection of text from a page rather than the whole document, giving the author absolute control over what information is shared with others. Notebook also provides real-time collaborative editing. Firefox plug-ins for instant web clipping; Skype integration for instant chat and IP telephony.

Free Personal Mac Web Android iPhone Apple Watch
Audio with notes Cloud sync Handwriting recognition Web clipper Add a feature

40 Like
Alternote

Gorgeous note-taking app for Mac with Evernote integration. Alternote has pixel-perfect interface, robust search, distraction-free mode and lots more. It is designed to be the most convenient and natural way to make notes, collect information, write down your ideas, feelings and memories

Commercial Mac
Distraction free writing Evernote integration Night mode/Dark Theme Distraction-free UI ... WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes. With Notational Velocity, searching for notes is not a separate action; rather, it is the primary interface. Searching encompasses all notes content and occurs instantly with each key pressed. All content created with Notational Velocity is compressed and encrypted (enabled optionally) before it is recorded to disk. Additionally, there is no manual "saving"; all modifications take effect immediately.

Free Open Source Mac
Minimalistic Add a feature

73 Like
Elephant

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know. Keep your notes to yourself. No accounts or clouds. For syncing use Dropbox, Github, rsync, ... No feature bloat or redesigns, ever. Elephant stores notes in plain files and folders. No databases and no migration. Cross-platform for Mac, Windows and Linux. Built for longevity with a classic interface. New versions will never offer weird functionality.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
MarkDown support Works Offline Portable Save as txt Add a feature

20 Like
NimbleNotes

NimbleNotes is an online note taking and study platform, designed to help students learn more efficiently. Our digital notebook improves your learning workflow with instantly generated flashcard decks, study session analytics, and advanced filtering capabilities. NimbleNotes features three key elements to improve a student’s learning workflow.

Freemium Web
Web-Based Add a feature

17 Like
nvPY

nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes. It syncs with simplenote, and runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Sync with Simplenote Add a feature

29 Like
Notepad3

Although the Windows operating system was updated significantly over the past years. However, the default Windows Notepad has not been updated in 20 years. If you need a text editor for simple programming tasks, using the vanilla Windows Notepad just does not cut it. Enter Notepad3! Therefore, we created Notepad3 with all the features that the default Windows Notepad currently lacks. Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.

Free Open Source Windows
Lightweight Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace ... Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature

9 Like
BasKet

A note taking application for KDE. Lots of features. This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to: * Easily take all sort of notes * Collect research results and share them * Centralize your project data and reuse it * Quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes * Keep track of your information in a smart way * Make intelligent To Do lists

Free Open Source Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

73 Like
- Discontinued Last release 8 years ago. Current github status says there are still bugs moving from KDE 3 to 4 (KDE is at version 5 now)
MemPad

MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages. Unicode. The program offers standard editing functions including cut, copy, paste, undo, date/time insert, drag&drop, and supports Web links as well as network and local file or folder links (full path not required) and internal page links. Environment variables can be used in file links to run programs, for example.

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

11 Like