The 8 best Zoho Notebook alternatives
Zoho Notebook scores 7.2 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: search and organisation get weak at scale. 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: audio transcription, speaker identification, internal links. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$12/mo
Apple Notes
Already on your phone, and better than it has any right to be.
Mac / iOS / Web
Gains you: audio transcription, internal links, ai image generation. Same territory: genuinely free.
Free
Craft
Documents that look designed before you touch anything.
Mac / iOS / Win / Android / Web
Gains you: internal links, backlinks, databases / boards. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$10/mo
Microsoft OneNote
An infinite paper notebook that has quietly been free for twenty years.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Web
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, internal links. Same territory: genuinely free.
Free
Tana
Supertags turn loose bullets into a structured database as you type.
Web / Mac / Win / iOS / Android
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, internal links. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$10/mo
AFFiNE
Docs and an infinite whiteboard that are the same document.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android · Open source
Gains you: internal links, backlinks, databases / boards. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$8.90/mo
Amplenote
Notes and tasks that argue with each other until your day is planned.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: internal links, backlinks, daily notes / journal. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$7.99/mo
Joplin
Open source, end-to-end encrypted, and it syncs wherever you tell it to.
Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android / Web · Open source
Gains you: internal links, backlinks, graph view. Same territory: genuinely free.
$3/mo
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