Zim Alternatives
Zim is described as 'A desktop personal wiki with inline preview as-you-type and lots of plugins' and is a well-known app in the Education & Reference category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Zim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, the Web and Android. The best alternative is NoteLedge. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Joplin or Google Keep. Other great apps like Zim are Standard Notes (Freemium, Open Source), Notion (Freemium), Microsoft OneNote (Freemium) and Obsidian (Free Personal).
- NoteLedge Cloud is the world's most versatile multimedia note-taking app that allows you to take notes, sketch your ideas, record audio and video, organize multimedia content, share and present your work. View 338 alternatives to NoteLedge
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NoteLedge vs Zim
soulrain Zim is a wiki; noteledge, while complex, is unsuited for a wiki.durhambell As soulrain already said, Zim is a wiki/PIM. Noteledge is a notebook/PIM. They are not the same thing at all. - An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities. View 546 alternatives to Joplin
- Free • Open Source
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- Google Chrome
- Termux
- Firefox
Joplin vs Zim
andgregorik Joplin caters to a somewhat different user base: more simplistic, quicker, requires way less IT/wiki savvy just to operate daily. It also has pitch perfect syncing which is not Zim's cup of tea. Still, the moving parts are similar, and it can work as an alternative.LordMax IT's not so similar to Zim Desktop, it's really near to evernote/nixnote It can be a good replacement too - Google Keep has several features including color coding notes, inserting images, creating lists, geo-fencing, shareable notes, and search by color. View 281 alternatives to Google Keep
- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
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- Google Chrome
- Android Wear
Google Keep vs Zim
Not really an alternative. Zim is both a note taking appa AND note organizer - 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. View 413 alternatives to Standard Notes
- Freemium • Open Source
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- Chrome OS
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- Self-Hosted
- With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all. View 319 alternatives to Notion
- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Notion vs Zim
Android Client, Markdown, Built-in trello-like boarddimaneiaglov Notion is also a wiki and also cross-platform in the sense that it is a web application. It has some features that Zim doesn't, e.g. multi-column layouts. - A digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. View 412 alternatives to Microsoft OneNote
- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
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- Chrome OS
- Windows S
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- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
- Kindle Fire
Microsoft OneNote vs Zim
It supports both internal and external links and has good structure. It's also WYSIWYG.LesterCovax Sync'd across OneDrive, has web, desktop, and mobile clients. There are certainly alternatives, but it gets the job done while enabling a good degree of logical organization. - Powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. View 67 alternatives to Obsidian
- Free Personal • Proprietary
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- Made by the company behind WordPress, Simplenote enables users to take notes, lists, and ideas. View 356 alternatives to Simplenote
- Free • Open Source
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Simplenote vs Zim
JohnFastman Simplenote is much less functional than Zim (no rich-text, no attachment to notes) and although it does work on mobile, it syncs your data via web-facing servers on which your info is held unencrypted. In that respect your information is much more vulnerable to hackers and govt agencies than if you used Zim, stored the data locally and maybe - if you need - sync it with an end-to-end encrypted service like Spideroak, Tresorit or Seafile (Seafile encrypts file content, not metadata).Free and free of problems. Just simple. - A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. View 469 alternatives to CherryTree
- Free • Open Source
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CherryTree vs Zim
JohnFastman If Zim isn't to your liking, CherryTree might be: open-source, stores data locally, supports instant search, interprets code blocks, and has more text editing features. The only thing it's not good at (yet) is attaching things by drag-n-drop. But that is in development, I hear.bekircelik wysiwyg , bug free, easy-to use and versatile interface, encrypted and un-encrypted mode, can import/export data from/to zim keynote html etc . Code box with syntax highlighting feature is nice. Also can import files image etc . Strictly hierarchical. More likely an outlining software. - Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving. View 506 alternatives to Evernote
- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Pebble
Evernote vs Zim
Evernote does not provide capability to organize data for outlining/collection data. Evernote is based on tags (so it is rather "chaotic") and people looking for a more structured way to organize information, benefit from ZIM.JohnFastman Evernote is proprietary, closed source and stores user data in unencrypted format on web-facing US servers, which is terrible for privacy and security. They have been hacked in the past and are subject to US laws that force them to disclose data with authorities. They also refuse to support Linux operating systems. Their clients on Mac and Windows are very different and both lag significantly after about 500 notes are in the database. Evernote are the past.fih10golts Complicated, non-free. Zim is just OpenSource notes.Basically these have little in common...Evernote is not really a replacement or an alternative to zim desktop.