Notability!

The best note taking APP on the entire iTunes store. I have downloaded 3 this past week, but nothing even comes close to this brilliant piece of software. I've only had it on my iPad for two days but already used for so much. Essential for any student such as myself, never really enjoyed taking notes, but this makes its so much fun. I have taken more notes using this app for university studies over the past two days than I have all year! It's easy to switch between styles, such as text and handwritten tools which makes the productivity and functionality of using the app a seamless and efficient experience. You don't have to keep going in and out of menus to change tools or adjust settings, it's all at the top of the screen if you want it. Overall, I can't praise this app enough. Anyone loo

Notability alternatives

  • Laverna

  • Laverna is a JavaScript note-taking web application with a Markdown editor and encryption support. It's built to be an open source alternative to Evernote.

    tags: aes-encryption cloud-sync desktop-client diary dropbox-integration
  • Microsoft OneNote

  • Microsoft OneNote, part of the Microsoft Office Suite , is a digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. It also offers shared notebooks, syncing between multiple computers and devices via Windows Live online storage, and optical character recognition (OCR) for getting text from pictures, business cards, etc.

    tags: auto-saving cloud-sync embedded-media getting-things-done handwritten-notes
  • Evince

  • Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, cbr, cbz, etc.

    tags: Portable djvu dvi handwriting-recognition lightweight
  • CherryTree

  • A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

    tags: Portable fast-search german multi-language note-taking
  • Standard Notes

  • Love Notes. Love Encryption.

    tags: aes-encryption android-sync cloud-sync content-filtering decentralized
  • Notezilla

  • Take quick notes on Post-It(r) like sticky notes on Windows desktop, stick those notes to websites, documents & folders. Set reminder alarm to each sticky note. To avoid desktop clutter, you can organize those sticky notes inside folders. Send sticky notes to another computer over local network (LAN) or Internet, Sync sticky notes between computers using the Notezilla.Net cloud service, access your sticky notes on any smart-device such as iOS(iPhone/iPad), Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc. »

    tags: checklists getting-things-done note-organizer note-taking notes-manager
  • NixNote

  • NixNote, formerly Nevernote, is an open source client for Evernote . It is written in Java so it will also run on Windows & OS-X, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable environment for Linux.

    tags: evernote-client note-taking
  • WizNote

  • WizNote is a Note software, which is especially designed for Internet users and mobile Internet users. WizNote focuses more on notes of rapid collection, management, reading and sharing. WizNote is smaller, more stable, and more suitable for computers, phones and mobile devices. It has a more abundant notes organization and rapid fulltext retrieval. Using associated online service, you can synchronise the notes between your computer and your cell phone.

    tags: Portable journal markdown note-taking notepad
  • Leanote

  • Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

    tags: Portable blog-publishing export-to-html full-text-search latex-math
  • Alternote

  • Gorgeous note-taking app for Mac with Evernote integration. Alternote has pixel-perfect interface, robust search, distraction-free mode and lots more. It is designed to be the most convenient and natural way to make notes, collect information, write down your ideas, feelings and memories

    tags: distraction-free-writing evernote evernote-integration night-mode no-distraction
  • Zoho Notebook

  • Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more. Online Collaboration: You can share a single image or selection of text from a page rather than the whole document, giving the author absolute control over what information is shared with others. Notebook also provides real-time collaborative editing. Firefox plug-ins for instant web clipping; Skype integration for instant chat and IP telephony.

    tags: audio-transcription audio-with-notes cloud-sync getting-things-done handwriting-recognition
  • Ciphernote

  • Ciphernote was born out of frustration with one aspect of existing cloud-based note taking applications: Privacy. While there's a multitude of solutions that offer decent note-taking features combined with cloud-synchronization accross devices, none of these existing solutions provide the security and peace of mind offered by zero-knowledge client-side encryption. In light of rampant privacy violations of governments and state-sponsored actors accross the globe, there's a need for a journaling application that makes security and privacy protection its number one priority »

    tags: aes256 client-side-encryption cloud-sync cross-platform office-and-productivity
  • NimbleNotes

  • NimbleNotes is an online note taking and study platform, designed to help students learn more efficiently. Our digital notebook improves your learning workflow with instantly generated flashcard decks, study session analytics, and advanced filtering capabilities.

    tags: educational note-taking school students study