choose for a current cross-platform Flutter Markdown notes app if you need Android/Windows alongside mobile.
A cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian, made with Flutter
- 163
- Dart
- GPL-3.0
local Markdown note-taking apps
FSNotes is a native macOS/iOS Markdown note-taking app that stores notes as portable plain-text/Markdown files, with fast search, folders, tags, optional encryption, and iCloud/Dropbox/Git sync.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
choose for a current cross-platform Flutter Markdown notes app if you need Android/Windows alongside mobile.
A cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian, made with Flutter
choose for a maintained mobile-first Markdown notes app that stores and syncs via Git repositories.
Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git
choose for a maintained local-first Markdown notebook storing plain files with optional in-browser Git sync.
📝 Local-first markdown notebook - notes live in your browser or local folders as plain markdown files, synced with in-browser git. No server, no account, works offline.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
choose if you want a self-hosted web/quick-capture notes service rather than an Apple-native local-file app.
Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.
choose if you want AI-assisted capture/organization of scattered records instead of manually managing plain markdown files.
Capture first. Organize later. A local-first Markdown app that turns scattered records into clear notes with AI.
choose if you need real-time collaborative Markdown notes on a shared web instance.
CodiMD - Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.
choose if you want hierarchical Markdown PKM inside VS Code rather than a standalone Apple app.
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
choose for end-to-end encrypted notes with cross-platform clients and a managed sync service.
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
choose if you want a local-first Markdown workspace designed for AI agents rather than a conventional plain-folder manager.
Open-source Reflect rewrite: A local-first AI agent-friendly Markdown note-taking app
choose for a browser-based Markdown notes UI that needs no native Apple client.
Note Mark is a lighting fast, web-based Markdown notes app.
choose for a self-hosted database-less web app serving a flat folder of Markdown files.
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
choose if you want a desktop Markdown workspace with built-in AI tools rather than a pure notes manager.
📝 Glyph is a private desktop workspace for notes, documents, and ideas, with Markdown editing and built-in AI tools.
choose for a terminal/local-web plain-text notes workflow instead of a GUI Apple app.
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
choose if you want to manage Markdown notebooks from Neovim rather than in a standalone app.
Fluent navigation and management of markdown notebooks
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
choose for a lightweight macOS Markdown editor if you want less notetaking/management machinery than FSNotes.
⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
previous-generation Electron Markdown note manager; no longer actively updated but still a local-file UI.
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
choose for a minimalist offline Markdown note tool rather than FSNotes' file-management and search features.
A minimalist, offline-first markdown note-taking app
cross-platform Markdown sticky-note scratchpad, narrower than FSNotes' full notebook setup.
花笺,轻量优雅的跨平台桌面便签工具,支持 Markdown 编辑与预览
previous-generation Markdown PKM with selective sync; not actively maintained.
小书匠是一款本地优先,去中心化,分布式,支持选择性同步的全平台覆盖知识管理笔记软件。
These projects were analysed and named fsnotes among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how fsnotes rates them is a separate judgement, made when fsnotes is analysed in its own right.
calls fsnotes “Choose when you want an actively maintained native Mac markdown note-taker with iOS/iCloud sync and similar wiki-link/preview capabilities.”
⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
calls fsnotes “Choose it when you live in the Apple ecosystem and want a native Markdown note app with iCloud/Spotlight integration rather than an Electron app.”
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
calls fsnotes “Pick FSNotes when you are Apple-only and want native Markdown notes with iCloud sync on Mac and iPhone.”
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
calls fsnotes “choose when you are on macOS/iOS and want a native Markdown note app with iCloud/Spotlight integration rather than a cross-platform Qt app.”
A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.
calls fsnotes “choose when you want a native, fast Markdown notes app on Mac/iOS without self-hosting.”
An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .
calls fsnotes “Choose on Apple platforms when you want a native Swift Markdown note app with iCloud sync instead of an Electron editor.”
A highly extensible Markdown editor. Version control, AI Copilot, mind map, documents encryption, code snippet running, integrated terminal, chart embedding, HTML applets, Reveal.js, plug-in, and macro replacement.
calls fsnotes “Choose FSNotes if you are on Mac/iPhone and want a fast, native Markdown note app that syncs via iCloud, with no cross-platform support.”
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
calls fsnotes “Choose for a lightweight Apple-only Markdown notepad, not for large structured knowledge.”
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
calls fsnotes “choose when you are on Apple platforms and want a fast native Markdown app with iCloud sync.”
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
calls fsnotes “Choose if you want a fast native Mac/iOS Markdown app with local storage, not a self-hosted server.”
Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.
calls fsnotes “Native macOS/iOS Markdown notes app; choose it when you want an Apple-native GUI rather than a browser-based app.”
Laverna is a JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote.