flxzt/rnote
A direct alternative: Rust-native handwriting note app with PDF support and vector strokes, lighter than the GTK stack.
Sketch and take handwritten notes.
- 11.6k
- Rust
- GPL-3.0
active7d ago
xournalpp/xournalpp alternatives
handwriting note-taking / PDF annotation
Xournal++ is a cross-platform handwriting note-taking application with PDF annotation support, written in C++ with GTK3.
Drop-in peers
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
LinwoodDev/Butterfly
A direct alternative: Flutter-based handwriting note app with PDF annotation, more modern UI and strong cross-platform consistency.
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
- 2.0k
- Dart
- AGPL-3.0
active1d ago
Listed as an alternative to
These projects were analysed and named xournalpp among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how xournalpp rates them is a separate judgement, made when xournalpp is analysed in its own right.
SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF
calls xournalpp “Handwritten note-taking app with PDF annotation, lacks page organization/OCR.”
Free and open-source PDF editor for Windows. View, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, draw, sign, fill forms, print, flatten, and open password-protected PDFs without a subscription. Install or run portable. GPLv3
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