Comparison of notetaking software

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

## Contents

* 1 General information
* 2 Basic features
* 3 Advanced formatting and content
* 4 See also
* 5 Notes
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## General information

Name  | Developer(s)  | License | Platforms

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AllMyNotes Organizer | Vladonai Software  | Proprietary, Freemium | Microsoft Windows
BasKet Note Pads | KDE | Open source (GPL)  | Unix-like (KDE)
CintaNotes | Cinta Software  | Proprietary, Freemium | Microsoft Windows
ConnectedText | Eduardo Mauro  | Proprietary, Commercial | Microsoft Windows
Day One | Bloom Built  | Proprietary, Commercial | macOS, iOS
DéjàClick | AlertSite  | Proprietary, Commercial | Linux, macOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows (Mozilla add-on)
Dropbox Paper | Dropbox  | Proprietary, Freemium | Android, IOS, web-based
Evernote | Evernote Corporation  | Proprietary, Freemium for personal use, per-seat licensing for business  | Android, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, Microsoft Windows Phone, and web-based
Gnote | Aurimas Černius  | Open source (GPL v3)  | Linux
Google Keep | Google | Proprietary, no-cost  | Android, iOS, Chrome OS, browser based
KeyNote NF | Marek Jedliński, Tranglos Software  | Open source (MPL)  | Microsoft Windows
Memonic | Nektoon AG  | Proprietary, Freemium[Notes 1] | Android (not released yet), iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web-based
Microsoft OneNote | Microsoft | Proprietary, Shareware/Freeware/Freemium[Notes 2] | Android, macOS, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2/2012R2/2016, Microsoft Windows Phone 8/8.1/10, web-based, mobile web
MyInfo | Milenix Software  | Proprietary, Shareware | Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
MyNotex | Massimo Nardello  | Open source (GPL)  | Linux
Notational Velocity | Zachary Schneirov  | Open source (GPL v3)  | macOS
Notes | Apple  | Proprietary | macOS, iOS, web-based
Notizen .NET | ?  | No-cost, unknown license  | Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
Okular | Okular Team (KDE)  | Open source (GPL)  | KDE-enabled Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, macOS, *BSD[1]
Open-Sankoré | Sankoré  | Open source (GPL)  | Linux, macOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows
Org-mode (Emacs)  | Carsten Dominik, et al.  | Open source (GPL)  | Linux, macOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows (Emacs mode)
Outline | Gorillized Corporation  | Proprietary, Commercial | macOS, iOS
PDF Studio | Qoppa Software  | Proprietary, Shareware | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, web-based
Personal Knowbase | Bitsmith Software  | Proprietary, Commercial | Microsoft Windows
QOwnNotes | Patrizio Bekerle  | Open source (GPL)  | GNU/Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Qiqqa | Quantisle Ltd.  | Proprietary, Freemium | Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Web-based, Android
Simplenote | Automattic inc.  | Open source  | Cross-platform
TagSpaces | TagSpaces UG  | Open source (AGPL)  | Cross-platform (browser, web-based)
TiddlyWiki | Jeremy Ruston  | Open source (BSD)  | Cross-platform (single html file, runs in browser, on a nodeJS server, on Android and IOS)
Tomboy | Alex Graveley  | Open source (LGPL)  | Cross-platform (Mono/GTK+)
TreeDBNotes | ?  | Proprietary, Freemium | Microsoft Windows
Ulysses | The Soulmen  | SaaS  | macOS, iOS
Whizfolders | AvniTech Solutions  | Proprietary, Commercial | Microsoft Windows
WikidPad | Michael Butscher  | Open source (BSD)  | Cross-platform (Python)
Microsoft Windows Journal  | Microsoft | Proprietary, Commercial | Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 (included with OS)
Zim | Jaap Karssenberg  | Open source (GPL)  | Cross-platform (Python, GTK+)
ZOHO Notebook | ZOHO Corporation  | Proprietary, Commercial, Freemium | Self-hosted. SaaS.

## Basic features

Name  | Organizing principle(s)  | Outline bulleting with indent  | Tabbed sections  | Sync | PDF annotate and save
[unclear] | White­board | Ink-pen input  | Handwriting recognition | Spell check  | Search  | Replace  | Printing  | File save/export/import formats

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AllMyNotes Organizer | Tree  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary, encrypted; import: plain text, RTF, CSV, images, HTML; exports: plain text, HTML, RTF, images
BasKet Note Pads | Tree, tags  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Rich text; export as HTML; import text files
CintaNotes | Notebooks, sections, tags | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary; export to Unicode text, XML and HTML
ConnectedText | Wiki, Tree and Categories | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary (SQL); Export to text, XML, CHM and HTML. Import from text, HTML, XML and RTF
Day One | Chronological, tags | Yes  | No  | Yes[Notes 3] | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes[Notes 4] | Markdown (in GUI), XML (data file); Export as: pdf, txt, md
DéjàClick | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes[Notes 5] | XML; notes may include rich text or HTML
Org-mode (Emacs)  | tree, tags | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar
Evernote | tags, Notebooks, Stacks  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Partial[Notes 6] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Notes stored as XML; both free and paid versions allow notes of any file type
Gnote | Notebooks  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF
Google Keep | tags, colors  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Partial[Notes 7] | Yes  | ?  | No  | Proprietary; export to Google Doc and thence to PDF, Word, ODT etc.
KeyNote NF | Notebooks, notes and tree | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Internal: combination of TXT and RTF; import/export: TXT, RTF, HTML, Treepad
Memonic | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Notes stored as XML; can attach any filetype
Microsoft OneNote | Notebooks, sections, pages  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[Notes 8] | Yes[Notes 9] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Open, XML,[2] import from web pages and other applications[clarification needed]
MyInfo | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary, encrypted; import: plain text, RTF, CSV, MS Word, images, web pages; exports: plain text, HTML, RTF, CSV, MS Word
MyNotex | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Sqlite based, zipped attachments; export to HTML; copying as LaTeX; import text files, OpenOffice.org documents
Notizen .NET | tree | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | TXT (ANSI/Unicode), RTF, ALX
Okular | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes[Notes 10] | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, others; export PDF+notes for sending to other Okular users
Open-Sankoré | tree, notebooks  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Save/export: PDF, IWB, UBZ; Import: PDF, IWB, UBZ, images, image directories
Outline | Tree-structured notebooks, sections, pages  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[Notes 11] | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | MS OneNote format, export/import as PDF
PDF Studio | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | PDF
Personal Knowbase | tags | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV
Qiqqa | tags, brainstorm | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary, PDF, Brainstorm; export to RTF and Word
Simplenote | tags | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Export to XML
TagSpaces | tags, files, directories  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, ICO, WEBP, SVG, PDF, HTML, MHT, MHTML, MARKDOWN, TXT, XML, JSON, OGG, OGV, WEBM, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, EPUB, ZIP
TiddlyWiki | tags (wikiwords)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Via plugin  | No  | ?  | No  | Yes(via browser)  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | HTML, json, txt,csv
Tomboy | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats
TreeDBNotes | tree | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | RTF, HTML, txt
Ulysses | Notebooks, sections, tags | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Rich text; export as HTML; import text files; markdown editing.
WikidPad | tags (wikiwords)  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | HTML
Microsoft Windows Journal  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes[Notes 12] | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Proprietary
Zim | tags (wikiwords)  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, using installed web browser  | Stored in modified DokuWiki Markdown; export: HTML, LaTeX, Pandoc Markdown, Sphinx RST (reStructuredText)
Name  | Organizing principle(s)  | Outline bulleting with indent  | Tabbed sections  | Sync | PDF annotate and save  | White­board | Ink-pen input  | Handwriting recognition | Spell check  | Search  | Replace  | Printing  | File save/export/import formats

## Advanced formatting and content

Name  | Drawing atop text
[unclear] | Text box, flow diagram
[unclear] | Text and paragraph formatting  | Insert hyperlink
[unclear] | Insert image | Resize image | Insert table | Insert audio | Insert video | Insert SWF | Attachment
[unclear] | Other objects  | Remarks / other features

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AllMyNotes Organizer | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links, autosaving; last cursor position memory,passwords on tree folders,failure-resistant self-healing DB engine  |
BasKet Note Pads | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | tags (check boxes, etc.)  | Adding, managing notes by category, autosave
Cherrytree  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  |
CintaNotes | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Links to notes  | Tagging and searching for tags, tag hierarchy
ConnectedText | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Scripting of pages with Python and other scripting languages.  | LaTex, Scripts, RSS Feeds, Transclusion, Directed Graphs and Flowcharts by GraphViz, many other features.
Day One | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | tags, bullets, numbering, line, programming code snippets  | editable note metadata (date/time, location, weather, motion activity, music playing, step count)
DéjàClick | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Annotate live web pages via DéjàNotes and share scripts
Org-mode (Emacs)  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Advanced linking,[clarification needed] 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
Evernote | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (at least Microsoft Windows version (06/2016))  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Check-box, line, tags  | Business and personal notes integrated in same client; businesses have control over business notes, but cannot see personal notes
Gnote | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Port of Tomboy to C++; wiki-style linked notes
Google Keep | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Partial[Notes 13] | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Google Calendar reminders  | Notes can be shared with other Google Keep users.
IPython Notebook | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Part of IPython shell; allows for programming code, output and annotation to be combined in single interactive environment
KeyNote NF | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[Notes 14] | Yes  | Yes[Notes 15] | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | 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
Memonic | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
Microsoft OneNote | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[Notes 16] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | OLE, bullets, line, flags, formulas  | No local storage of notebooks on Mac
MyInfo | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | OLE, bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links  | Tags; filters; calendar; reminders
MyNotex | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Activity lists; tags; notes management by subject; encryption with AES or GPG; multilingual
Notational Velocity | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Instant open and searching
Okular | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
Open-Sankoré | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | plug-ins, web pages, applications  | Annotate live desktop applications and web pages; autosave; plug-in system; audio recording
Outline | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Tags  | Password protection, insert web pages, local storage, MS OneNote compatibility, text highlighting, bulleted and numbered lists, free placement of notes on a page
PDF Studio | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
Personal Knowbase | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Passwords; portable[clarification needed]
Qiqqa | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | PDF, brainstorm, citations  |
TagSpaces | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | 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.
Simplenote | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  |  |
TiddlyWiki | ?  | Yes(with plugin)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | HTML, LaTeX, markdown plugins  | Plugins; user scripts
Tomboy | Partial  | No  | Partial  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Note Links, highlighting, fixed-width  | Reminders; to do-lists; formulas in LaTeX
TreeDBNotes | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  |
WikidPad | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | personal wiki software
Microsoft Windows Journal  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
Zim | No  | Yes[3] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | 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
Name  | Drawing atop text  | Text box, flow diagram  | Text and paragraph formatting  | Insert hyperlink | Insert image | Resize image | Insert table | Insert audio | Insert video | Insert SWF | Attachment  | Other objects  | Remarks / other features

## See also

* Comparison of text editors
* Comparison of web annotation systems
* Comparison of wiki software
* Comparison of word processors
* List of personal information managers
* List of text editors
* List of wiki software
* Outliner
* Personal information manager
* Personal knowledge base

## Notes

1. ↑ Free users limited to 100 notes.
2. ↑ Depends on platform and version.
3. ↑ Data is synced between devices by Dropbox or iCloud.
4. ↑ Printable via exported pdf files.
5. ↑ Note may be printed and saved as web pages via the Firefox browser.
6. ↑ No support for ink notes in Mac version. Cannot mix ink with text
7. ↑ On android and Chrome OS uses platform's spell checker.
8. ↑ Can sync with OneDrive and SharePoint.
9. ↑ 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.[1]
10. ↑ Saved in separate file.
11. ↑ Notes can be synced between devices via Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint and iCloud.
12. ↑ Handwritten notes are searchable.
13. ↑ Lists only, with check-box facility.
14. ↑ As the RTF format stores pictures internally as bitmaps (.bmp), this leads to large notebook files.
15. ↑ 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).
16. ↑ Can also search in audio.

## References

1. ↑ "Okular home page". http://okular.kde.org/. Retrieved 19 June 2013. "... Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X [macOS], *BSD, etc."
2. ↑ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12).aspx
3. ↑ Using plugins

## External links

* Sauve, Jean-Paul (Jan 9, 2014). "Taking Notes in Linux for Students". http://dotcadot.ca/articles/note-taking-linux-students. "Linux software comparison"

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