Turtl Alternatives and Similar Software

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.

• Google Keep is part of Google's range of services that enable Google to make money through harvesting your private information, including your notes, location, search... Turtl is encrypted and cannot do this. They cannot harvest, lose or give away readable versions of your notes. Stay away from Keep. JohnFastman • Apr 2018 • 6 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome Android Wear

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.

• Unlike Turtl, Evernote is 1) unencrypted/not very secure privacy-respecting 2) has lost user data in the past, both by software and security errors, 3) closed source (less trustworthy than Turtl), 3) doesn't support linux, 4) feels different on each platform, 5) feels bloated and slow after you put in a sufficient number of notes, 6) The company have and can again make privacy-violating changes to their privacy policy. Turtl is in beta, but aleady infinitely preferable. JohnFastman • Mar 2017 • 17 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Blackberry Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear Kindle Fire Pebble

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote, part of the Microsoft Office Suite , is a digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. It also offers shared notebooks, syncing between multiple computers and devices via Windows Live online storage, and optical character recognition (OCR) for getting text from pictures, business cards, etc. An online version, https://alternativeto .

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows S ... Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear Kindle Fire

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

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

Standard Notes

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. Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes. Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work.

• Standard Notes has everything that Turtl has, except support for images. But they have constant support and updates, sync across all devices, and it's ENCRYPTED. Guest • Sep 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted

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

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

NoteLedge

NoteLedge provides a workspace for collecting information from multiple sources, connecting thoughts, and quickly tracing references. Organize notes, annotations, and excerpts from PDF documents and web pages all in one place. This digital notepad provides powerful multimedia and creative tools for creating interactive notes and presenting works straight from a smart device. This is an essential app for project planning, creative thinking, writing research papers, and documentation.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows S ... Android Tablet iPad

Firefox Sync

Firefox Sync is a Mozilla Labs project to integrate web services into Firefox by allowing users to securely share their data with other instances of their own software, other users and 3rd parties. Firefox Sync includes a Firefox add-on, a server component, and data sharing APIs.

• Firefox Sync ONLY syncs a subset of Turtl's capabilities Natterjack565 • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted ... Firefox

Paperwork

OpenSource note-taking & archiving Paperwork is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Evernote , Microsoft OneNote or Google Keep . This branch contains the second iteration of Paperwork, which is a complete rewrite. Not only is it based on another framework - it is based on a completely different technology stack. It is in its very early development phase and not yet usable.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted PHP Cloudron

Tomboy

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. FEATURES - Highlighting text - Spell checking - Auto-linking web & email addresses - Font styling & sizing - Bulleted lists - Note synchronization across several computers - Backup and Recovery

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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

Google Bookmarks

Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders. It allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes. Users can access their bookmarks from any computer by signing in to their Gmail account. The bookmarks are searchable, and searches are performed on the full text of the bookmarked pages, not just the labels and notes.

Free Web

CintaNotes

CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

Freemium Windows PortableApps.com

Omni Notes

Note taking open-source application aimed to have both a simple interface but keeping smart behavior.

Free Open Source Android

Nimbus Note

Beautiful note-taker and organizer. Use Nimbus Note for storing your ideas, lectures, web pages, food recipes, and any other information. Quick synchronization will allow you to have access to your information anytime from anywhere in the world. Functional web clipper will help you save any information from the Internet: interesting articles to be read later, material for lectures, food recipes to please yourself and your loved ones, website screenshots, and many other things.

• Nimbus note is an Evernote rip-off and it does nothing to protect your privacy: it stores your data in every bit as unsecure and unprivate way as does Evernote. Turtl, on the other hand, is open source and uses end-to-end encryption, so cannot lose readable versions of your notes to hackers, govt, etc. JohnFastman • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Web Android iPhone Android Tablet ... Windows Phone iPad Chrome Opera

TheBrain

TheBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, emails and files in a context-driven visual map. Items are linked in a visual network that is designed to mimic the way you think. PersonalBrain's interface is a graphic map, similar to a mind map, but enabling any item to become the central topic. The product allows organization of information in a network, overcoming the limitations of hierarchical storage and thinking.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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

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

• Only a front-end for Evernote, offers none of the server-side capabilities. Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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

(Un)colored

Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible.

• Discontinued Last Github commit on 2017. See https://github.com/n457/Uncolored

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Notes

Use Notes to capture a quick thought, create checklists, sketch ideas, and more. And with iCloud, you can keep your notes up to date across all your devices. With Notes in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan and later, you can turn a list into an interactive checklist with a single tap. Or easily add a photo, map, or URL to a note. You can even draw a sketch with your finger on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. And thanks to iCloud, everything in your Notes are kept up to date across all your devices.

Free Mac Web iPhone iPad

Inkdrop

Inkdrop enables hackers to keep track of their daily progress when it comes to hacking in one convenient spot without having to rely on traditional word processors. Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighting as well as built-in syncing capabilities. Users can organize their progress in a clean, uniform way that's focused on ensuring that the information is easy to work through and can be read uniformly.

• Inkdrop isn't open source like Turtl, but it does support Markdown, image attachments, labels and end-to-end encrypted sync. That's much better for your privacy and security than most other services. JohnFastman • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone

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