The 8 best Google Keep alternatives
Google Keep scores 7.1 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: no folders, so a few hundred notes becomes a mess. These are the apps that fix that, ranked by overall score.
Grape
Take the note. The AI does the filing, the studying and the searching.
Mac / Win / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: speaker identification, meeting recording, quick capture. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$3/mo
Obsidian
Plain markdown files on your disk, with a plugin ecosystem bolted on top.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Linux
Gains you: meeting recording, quick capture, pdf & documents. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$4/mo
Apple Notes
Already on your phone, and better than it has any right to be.
Mac / iOS / Web
Gains you: meeting recording, quick capture, pdf & documents. Same territory: genuinely free.
Free
Craft
Documents that look designed before you touch anything.
Mac / iOS / Win / Android / Web
Gains you: quick capture, pdf & documents, document scanning. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
Microsoft OneNote
An infinite paper notebook that has quietly been free for twenty years.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Web
Gains you: speaker identification, meeting recording, quick capture. Same territory: genuinely free.
Free
Day One
A journal that has been quietly perfecting one job since 2011.
iOS / Mac / Android / Win / Web
Gains you: quick capture, pdf & documents, document scanning. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$49.99/yr
Joplin
Open source, end-to-end encrypted, and it syncs wherever you tell it to.
Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android / Web ยท Open source
Gains you: pdf & documents, folders / notebooks, multi-level folders. Same territory: genuinely free.
$3/mo
Supernotes
Every note is a card, and cards were built to be shared.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: quick capture, pdf & documents, folders / notebooks. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
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