The 8 best NotePlan alternatives
NotePlan scores 7.2 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: no windows, linux or android app, so the web app carries everyone else. These are the apps that fix that, ranked by overall score.
Notion
The all-in-one workspace that swallowed the note app category.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Web
Gains you: speaker identification, meeting recording, web clipper. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$12/mo
Obsidian
Plain markdown files on your disk, with a plugin ecosystem bolted on top.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Linux
Gains you: meeting recording, drawing canvas, ocr / handwriting search. Same territory: linked thinking / pkm.
$4/mo
Craft
Documents that look designed before you touch anything.
Mac / iOS / Win / Android / Web
Gains you: drawing canvas, web clipper, document scanning. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$10/mo
RemNote
Take notes and generate the flashcards in the same keystroke.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: drawing canvas, web clipper, graph view. Same territory: linked thinking / pkm.
$8/mo
Heptabase
Notes on whiteboards, for when the outline is not the shape of the idea.
Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android / Web
Gains you: drawing canvas, web clipper, graph view. Same territory: linked thinking / pkm.
$11.99/mo
Capacities
A studio for your mind, organised by object type instead of folders.
Web / Mac / Win / iOS / Android
Gains you: meeting recording, web clipper, graph view. Same territory: linked thinking / pkm.
$12.99/mo
Tana
Supertags turn loose bullets into a structured database as you type.
Web / Mac / Win / iOS / Android
Gains you: speaker identification, meeting recording, web clipper. Same territory: linked thinking / pkm.
$10/mo
AFFiNE
Docs and an infinite whiteboard that are the same document.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android ยท Open source
Gains you: meeting recording, drawing canvas, ai web search. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$8.90/mo
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