The tables below compare features of notable note-taking software. These comparisons highlight differences in platform availability, synchronization capabilities, formatting options, storage limits, and integration with other applications. While some applications like Microsoft OneNote and Evernote offer robust features with cloud syncing across devices, others such as Simplenote prioritize minimalism and speed. Open-source tools like Joplin provide privacy-focused alternatives, allowing users to host their own notes and use end-to-end encryption. These tables aim to help users choose a note-taking tool that best fits their workflow, whether for academic, personal, or professional use.

The tables below compare features of notable note-taking software.

General information

Name Developer(s) License Platforms AllMyNotes Organizer Vladonai Software Microsoft Windows Bear Shiny Frog macOS, iOS CintaNotes Cinta Software Microsoft Windows ConnectedText Eduardo Mauro Microsoft Windows Day One Bloom Built (Automattic) macOS, iOS, Android Dropbox Paper Dropbox Android, iOS, web-based Evernote Evernote Corporation Android, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, Microsoft Windows Phone, and web-based Gnote Aurimas Černius Linux Google Keep Google Android, iOS, ChromeOS, browser based Joplin laurent22 et al. Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android KeyNote Marek Jedliński, Tranglos Software Microsoft Windows Logseq Logseq Inc Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, iOS, BSD Memonic Nektoon AG Free users limited to 100 notes. Android (not released yet), iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web-based Microsoft OneNote Microsoft Depends on platform and version. Android, macOS, iOS, Microsoft Windows (desktop and mobile), PWA MyInfo Milenix Software Microsoft Windows MyNotex Massimo Nardello Linux Notational Velocity Zachary Schneirov macOS Notes Apple macOS, iOS, web-based Notion Notion Labs Inc. Android, macOS, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Microsoft Windows, web-based Obsidian Dynalist Inc. Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android Open-Sankoré Sankoré Linux, macOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows Org-mode (Emacs) Carsten Dominik, et al. Linux, macOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows PDF Studio Qoppa Software Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, web-based Personal Knowbase Bitsmith Software Microsoft Windows QOwnNotes Patrizio Bekerle it Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows Qiqqa Quantisle Ltd. Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Web-based, Android Roam Roam Research macOS, Linux, Microsoft WindowsSamsung NotesSamsung Electronics Android, Microsoft Windows Simplenote Automattic inc. Web app TagSpaces TagSpaces UG Web app TiddlyWiki Jeremy Ruston Cross-platform (single HTML file, runs in browser, on a nodeJS server, on Android and IOS) Tomboy Alex Graveley Cross-platform (Mono/GTK+) Ulysses The Soulmen macOS, iOS Whizfolders AvniTech Solutions Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Journal Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista through Windows 10 v1511 Zettlr Hendrik Erz macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux Zim Jaap Karssenberg Cross-platform (Python, GTK+) ZOHO Notebook ZOHO Corporation Web app

Basic features

Organizing principle(s) Sync Printing File save/export/import formats Tree , encrypted; import: plain text, RTF, CSV, images, HTML; exports: plain text, HTML, RTF, images tags , encrypted; export: plain text, markdown, textbundle, RTF, HTML, DOCX, PDF, JPG, ePub Notebooks, sections, tags ; export to Unicode text, XML and HTML Wiki, Tree and Categories (SQL); Export to text, XML, CHM and HTML. Import from text, HTML, XML and RTF Chronological, tags Data is synced between devices by Dropbox or iCloud. Printable via exported pdf files. Markdown (in GUI), XML (data file); Export as: pdf, txt, md tags, Notebooks, Stacks No support for ink notes in Mac version. Cannot mix ink with text Imports and exports in Evernote XML. Notebooks NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF tags, colors Clips URLs and titles only. Web page content is not clipped On Android and ChromeOS uses platform's spell checker. ; export to Google Doc and thence to PDF, Word, ODT etc. Nested notebooks, tree, tags Import/Export: JEX (Proprietary), RAW (Proprietary, directory), Markdown (optionally with front matter); Export: HTML, PDF; Import: Evernote ENEX Notebooks, notes and tree Internal: combination of TXT and RTF; import/export: TXT, RTF, HTML, Treepad Notebooks, journal pages, blocks and pages Internal: There are two versions of the software: a markdown version and a database version; export: PDF, HTML. Notes stored as XML; can attach any filetype Notebooks, notebook sections, section groups, tags (could be applied to content blocks) All versions can sync with OneDrive and SharePoint. Versions later than Office 2016 can only use online notebooks and cannot use local notebooks. OneNote 2010 and OneNote 2007 Service Pack 2 and beyond have it built in. A Save As PDF add-in is available for earlier versions of OneNote 2007. Can save to PDF with add-in. Imports: Evernote XML. Exports: OneNote binary format. Notebooks, sections, notes, tree, tags, custom attributes , encrypted; import: plain text, RTF, CSV, MS Word, TreePad, images, web pages; exports: plain text, HTML, RTF, CSV, MS Word, TreePad Sqlite based, zipped attachments; export to HTML; copying as LaTeX; import text files, OpenOffice.org documents notes, tree, tags Sqlite based; export to PDF Notebooks, notebook sections, section Saved in separate file. ; export to PDF, HTML, Markdown, CSV Wiki, Tree and Categories Markdown, PDF PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, others; export PDF+notes for sending to other Okular users tree, notebooks Save/export: PDF, IWB, UBZ; Import: PDF, IWB, UBZ, images, image directories tree, tags LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar PDF tags Export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV tags, brainstorm , PDF, Brainstorm; export to RTF and Word tags Export to XML tags, files, directories PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, ICO, WEBP, SVG, PDF, HTML, MHT, MHTML, MARKDOWN, TXT, XML, JSON, OGG, OGV, WEBM, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, EPUB, ZIP tags (wikiwords) (via browser) HTML, json, txt, csv NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats Notebooks, sections, tags Rich text; export as HTML; import text files; markdown editing. Handwritten notes are searchable. Tree, Tags, Wiki Sync of files and folders using external services. Internal spell check or LanguageTool integration. Markdown, Export and Import of Pandoc supported formats. tags (wikiwords) , using installed web browser Stored in modified DokuWiki Markdown; export: HTML, LaTeX, Pandoc Markdown, Sphinx RST (reStructuredText) Name Organizing principle(s) Sync Printing File save/export/import formats

Advanced formatting and content

Other objects Remarks / other features Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links, autosaving; last cursor position memory, passwords on tree folders, failure-resistant self-healing DB engine check-boxes, bullets, link to notes, encryption, document scanning, OCR search ? Links to notes Tagging and searching for tags, tag hierarchy ? Scripting of pages with Python and other scripting languages. LaTeX, Scripts, RSS Feeds, Transclusion, Directed Graphs and Flowcharts by GraphViz, many other features. ? tags, bullets, numbering, line, programming code snippets editable note metadata (date/time, location, weather, motion activity, music playing, step count) At least Microsoft Windows version (06/2016) Check-box, line, tags Business and personal notes integrated in same client; businesses have control over business notes, but cannot see personal notes Port of Tomboy to C++; wiki-style linked notes ? Lists only, with check-box facility. Google Calendar reminders Notes can be shared with other Google Keep users. ? Part of IPython shell; allows for programming code, output and annotation to be combined in single interactive environment Resize large images Links to other notes Configurable editor layout with live preview of Markdown; Command pallette; Notes <--> Todo conversion; Plug-ins; Cloud sync available with various services, including a separate server self-hosted server; Configurable note history; Optional client side encryption; Custom CSS (imported from local or remote source) for rendered Markdown as well as app interface; As the RTF format stores pictures internally as bitmaps (.bmp), this leads to large notebook files. Tables must be created in another program. After pasting the table into Keynote NF, one can edit the cells and add new rows, but changing the size of the columns and adding or removing columns is not possible. These operations can be done by pasting the table into another program (for example, MS Word). OLE objects; "virtual nodes" which integrate and edit the content of external plain-text or rich-text files; internal links; mirror nodes. Text processing; tree numbering and sorting; custom tree icons; node checkboxes; checkbox filtering; search filtering; reminder alarms; compressed or encrypted notebooks; auto-minimize and/or auto-lock when idle; quick access key for fast notes; additional scratchpad; autosave of up to 9 previous file versions; automatic clipboard capturing; read-only notebooks or notes; macros; templates; text shortcuts; plug-ins; bookmarks; custom keyboard shortcuts; program can be made portable through "Options" setting Schedule/Deadline, TODO, LaTeX, arbitrary extensions ? Can also search in audio. OLE, bullets, line, flags, formulas No local storage of notebooks on Mac or versions past Office 2016 OLE, bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links Tags; filters; calendar; reminders ? Activity lists; tags; notes management by subject; encryption with AES or GPG; multilingual ? Instant open and searching Bullets, numbering, checkboxes, reminders, calendars Bullets, numbering, checkboxes, canvases, HTML, LaTeX, internal links plug-ins, web pages, applications Annotate live desktop applications and web pages; autosave; plug-in system; audio recording depending what you mean, it can be: M-x artist-mode M-x picture-mode el-easydraw (setq org-image-actual-width nil) Advanced linking, bullets, tags, checkboxes, full spreadsheet, embedding of programming code, formulas, markup Major mode of Emacs; uses plain-text; includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar Passwords; portable PDF, brainstorm, citations PDF ? Tags, plugins Plugins, you can present your local images, videos and music to your TV via ChromeCast. You can create a personal "wiki" for tracking of your projects, ideas or memories. (with plugin) HTML, LaTeX, markdown plugins Plugins; user scripts Note Links, highlighting, fixed-width Reminders; to do-lists; formulas in LaTeX Resize upon initial insertion. Bullets, numbering, checkboxes, HTML, LaTeX, internal links, citations Using plugins Plugins; Versioning; LaTeX integration (formulas, export); HTML export (including slideshow); GNOME's Zeitgeist integration; Lilypond music sheet integration ASCII diagram drawing; Tags; Tasks; Table of Content navigation; SQLite3 search indexing; Autosaving; Last cursor position memory; Tabbed multi-documents Other objects Remarks / other features

See also Comparison of text editors Comparison of web annotation systems Comparison of wiki software Comparison of word processor programs List of personal information managers List of text editors List of wiki software Outliner Personal information manager Personal knowledge base Personal wiki

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