Compare the Top Free Note-Taking Apps as of December 2025

What are Free Note-Taking Apps?

Note-taking apps are software solutions that allow users to capture, organize, and manage notes, ideas, and information in a digital format. These apps typically include features like text formatting, tagging, multimedia support (images, audio, and video), cloud synchronization for cross-device access, and search functionality. Some note-taking apps also offer collaboration features, allowing multiple users to work on the same notes in real-time. These tools are widely used for personal note-taking, meeting minutes, research, and project management. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Note-Taking apps currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Evernote

    Evernote

    Evernote

    Your notes. Organized. Effortless. Take notes anywhere. Find information faster. Share ideas with anyone. Meeting notes, web pages, projects, to-do lists—with Evernote as your note taking app, nothing falls through the cracks. Manage everything from big projects to personal moments. Capture ideas and inspiration in notes, voice, and pictures. Never lose track of your tasks and deadlines. At work, at home, and everywhere in between. Evernote’s plans and pricing are designed to fit your needs. Plan, keep records, and manage projects from any device–even offline. Manage projects, deadlines, clients, and meetings with ease. Create your free account and choose the plan that fits your needs. Type notes, add attachments, clip web pages, or record memos. All in one place. Organize your notes, your way. Use notebooks, tags, or our powerful search to find everything you need quickly. Manage projects, take meeting notes, set reminders, and edit documents.
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    Starting Price: $2.70 per user per month
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    Microsoft OneNote
    Microsoft OneNote is your all-in-one digital notebook for capturing ideas, organizing thoughts, and collaborating seamlessly. With Copilot in OneNote, you can draft plans, generate ideas, and structure your notes using simple natural-language prompts. Sketch, annotate, and highlight freely using digital ink that feels as natural as pen on paper. Share notebooks in real time to brainstorm, plan, or learn together with teammates, classmates, or family. Built-in voice transcription ensures you never miss key details from meetings or lectures. Whether at home, school, or work, OneNote helps you stay organized and creative across all your devices.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Notion

    Notion

    Notion Labs

    Notion is a highly versatile and collaborative workspace designed to help individuals and teams manage documents, wikis, projects, and tasks efficiently. It offers a wide array of features like customizable views for workflows, project tracking, and document creation, all within a single platform. Notion allows users to create a shared knowledge base, organize notes, and collaborate seamlessly on content creation. Additionally, its built-in AI assistance features help users summarize, write, and instantly search for relevant content, significantly enhancing productivity. The platform integrates effortlessly with other popular apps such as Slack, Google Drive, and Trello, providing a seamless experience for teams looking for an all-in-one platform to manage their projects, goals, and knowledge in an organized, collaborative environment.
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    Starting Price: $12/user/month
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    FuseBase

    FuseBase

    FuseBase

    FuseBase - The AI-Powered Workspaces & Agent Platform for Modern Teams Workspaces that Work, Agents that Do. In FuseBase, you can automate work, unlock productivity, and deliver standout experiences to clients, partners, and employees. Create branded, secure workspaces—embed custom AI Agents to automate onboarding, support, project tracking, compliance, and more. KEY USE CASES & OUTCOMES: - Sales & Deal Rooms: Accelerate deal cycles with AI-powered workspaces, proposal generation, and instant engagement analytics. - Client & Partner Workspaces: Deliver 24/7 support, automate onboarding, and centralize resources. - Internal Collaboration: Secure workspaces and always-available departmental AI assistants. Spin up AI Agents for Sales, Support, HR, or Finance in under a minute—deploy them inside workspaces, your browser, or via workflow automations.
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    Starting Price: $32
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    Obsidian

    Obsidian

    Obsidian

    Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following "connections" is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph. Note-taking is incredibly personal. Tried every app, but there's always something not quite right? You deserve better. Obsidian is built to be extensible. With 22 core plugins and 149 community plugins, set up your own toolkit and get running in minutes. You'll even be able to install third party plugins or build your own once Obsidian reaches v1.0. Sky's the limit. In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in. With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder.
    Starting Price: $25 one-time payment
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    Joplin

    Joplin

    Joplin

    Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported. The notes can be synchronized with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or the file system (for example with a network directory). When synchronising the notes, notebooks, tags and other metadata are saved to plain text files which can be easily inspected, backed up and moved around. The application is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.
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    Boost Note

    Boost Note

    Boost Note

    Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams. Built to empower developers productivity with the most solid note taking experience for developers. Not just a GitHub flavored markdown. Put diagrams with Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML in documents to maximize visibility. Choose from keymaps like Vim, over 150 themes, and more to create your own Markdown editor. Manage your documents programmatically. Grab an authentication token and access Boost Note's APIs via simple HTTP requests. Automate your documentation work with over 2,000 external tool integrations via Zapier. Collaborate with your colleagues and share information your way. Have all your teams in one shared workspace. Write documents as a team with Boost Note's realtime editing. Check revision history of a doc. You can easily roll back to one of the previous versions in one click. Keep your important data safe through granula access control based on workspace.
    Starting Price: $3 per member per month
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    MadNotes

    MadNotes

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    MadNotes PRO is a lightning-fast, easy-to-use solution that helps you stay in the zone while working. It’s an ideal tool for professionals who frequently switch between browser tabs – marketers, programmers, journalists, and students alike – MadNotes PRO transforms every new browser tab into a productive space for note-taking, content storing, and on-the-fly editing. This tool transforms every browser tab into a powerhouse workspace. Main Features: ✔️Rich text formatting ✔️Synchronization ✔️Unlimited docs ✔️Security by default ✔️Dark & Light Mode ✔️ Privacy Settings Download the MadNotes browser extension from the Chrome, Edge, and Firefox browser stores, or try it on the web.
    Starting Price: $3
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    WizNote

    WizNote

    WizNote

    Leave brain for thinking, let WizNote to remember. Webpage collected, full text search, folders and markdown. Get the Docker image of WizNote Server, for free! Clip webpage, and blog, import variable files, conquer the fragmentation. Checklist, handwriting, photos, voices, attachments, more than just text. Light editing tool, markdown supported, upload data to the server. Historical version, once saved, permanently saved. Groups, folders and tags. Get data organized, full-text search, shortcut of notes. Locate folders and notes, create and collaborate, boost your work. Create shared workplace, connect people with comments. Improve work by jointly editing, and move work forward. Keep work organized, stay in same version, same pace. Get rid of repetition and work better together. Hosted on your own infrastructure, scaled to your needs. Get WizNote on mobile, tablet and computer.
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