The 8 best Ulysses alternatives
Ulysses scores 6.7 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: apple only, and icloud is the only sync worth using. 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: voice recording, audio transcription, speaker identification. 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: voice recording, audio transcription, meeting recording. 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: voice recording, audio transcription, meeting recording. Same territory: minimal & fast.
Free
Craft
Documents that look designed before you touch anything.
Mac / iOS / Win / Android / Web
Gains you: voice recording, handwriting / stylus, drawing canvas. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
Day One
A journal that has been quietly perfecting one job since 2011.
iOS / Mac / Android / Win / Web
Gains you: voice recording, audio transcription, handwriting / stylus. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$49.99/yr
Supernotes
Every note is a card, and cards were built to be shared.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: web clipper, backlinks, graph view. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
UpNote
What Evernote used to be, for a one-time forty dollars.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android
Gains you: web clipper, backlinks, math / latex. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$2.99/mo
Bear
The best-looking markdown editor on Apple platforms.
iOS / Mac
Gains you: ocr / handwriting search, web clipper, document scanning. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$2.99/mo
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