Bear
Bear is a Markdown writing and note-taking app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, designed for everyday notes, longer drafts and personal knowledge.
Craft
Craft is a workspace for notes, documents and tasks that emphasizes readable, well-designed pages. It suits personal writing, project plans and shared knowledge.
Defter Notes
Defter Notes is a spatial handwriting app that turns an open canvas into a desk for reading, thinking and developing ideas. It is designed for visual researchers, students, writers and designers who want notes and source documents side by side.
Reflect
Reflect is a linked note-taking app built around daily notes, backlinks and quick capture. Reflect Open stores local Markdown files; the older hosted Reflect Classic remains separately maintained.
Noto
Elegant notes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich text, handwriting and folders.
Apple Notes
Apple's built-in notes app across iPhone, iPad and Mac, with checklists, scans, drawing and iCloud sync.
SideNotes
Notes and tasks in a panel that slides out from the edge of the Mac screen.
Inkdrop
Markdown note-taking app for developers, with sync across devices and plugins.
Standard Notes
Private, end-to-end encrypted notes app with optional Markdown, code and spreadsheet editors.
Amplenote
Notes, tasks and calendar in one app, with end-to-end encryption options.
Arkive
Arkive is a native iPhone notes app for collecting ideas, reminders, images and references in a simple personal library. It is aimed at individual capture and retrieval rather than a shared team workspace.
Cleft Notes
Cleft is a voice-first notes app for capturing ideas before they disappear. Built for Apple devices, it turns spoken thoughts into readable notes that can move into an existing notes or task system rather than replacing it.
DeepNotes
DeepNotes is an encrypted visual notebook for people who prefer arranging ideas spatially to writing everything in a linear document. Its infinite canvases and nested pages suit research maps, connected notes and collaborative planning.
Eden
Eden is a workspace for creators and marketers that connects saved ideas, content research, AI-assisted writing, publishing and digital-product sales.
Evernote
Evernote is your second brain — the place to keep everything that matters and find it again the moment you need it.
Google Keep
Google Keep is a lightweight notebook for catching ideas, checklists and reference material before they disappear. It suits quick capture and shared everyday lists more than long-form documents or structured project databases.
Lognote
Quick notes for everyday life. Clear records for work.
Mem
Mem combines an AI note-taking workspace with a proactive personal agent. It is designed for people whose useful context is scattered across meetings, research, projects and everyday conversations.
Memo
Simple note-taking app for quick memos and lists.
Microsoft OneNote
Supercharge your productivity with OneNote. Organize thoughts and ideas, and simplify planning important moments with your digital note-taking.
Napkin
Napkin is an iPhone app for collecting meaningful quotes and ideas, then revisiting them in short, connected flows. This is Napkin Ideas at napkin.one, not the similarly named Napkin AI diagram-making service.
Noor
Noor is a team-chat app organized around nested conversations, with tools for switching between focused asynchronous work and quick live collaboration.
Notebook
Notebook : Simple note-taking app and notepad. We start from the simple and efficient design concept to create a convenient note for you.
NotePlan
NotePlan combines notes, tasks and a calendar in one planning workspace, with native Mac, iPhone and iPad apps plus web access.
Opennote
Opennote was an AI notebook for understanding, organizing and practicing from notes and learning materials. It is no longer an active app: the official site confirms that the product was sunset following its acquisition by Reducto.
Proton
Proton is a privacy-focused suite for email, calendars, file storage, collaboration, VPN access and password management.
Recall
Daily notes app for iPhone that brings back past notes so they don't get lost.
Simple Notes
Simple Notes is an easy-to-use notes app that leaves out the extras, so writing, organizing, and finding notes stay simple.
Simple Notes.
Simple Notes. is exactly what the name says, a simple note taking app.
Stickies
Sticky notes on your Mac desktop.
Tangent Notes
Markdown notes app for Mac with linked notes and a local file vault.
UpNote
UpNote is a clean and beautiful app for writing and organizing.
Year Note
Marks each day of the year with symbols, so the whole year fits on one timeline.
Zine
Zine is a well-designed powerful notes and writing app.