What are the best indie alternatives to Evernote?

5 curated indie and bootstrapped alternatives to Evernote: Joplin, Bear, Standard Notes, Obsidian, Notesnook. All are smaller, founder-led tools that compete with Evernote on price, openness or developer experience.

What category does Evernote fall under?

Evernote is listed in Notes & Knowledge. See all notes & knowledge tools in our directory.

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Alternatives to Evernote

Evernote was once the default note app. Indie alternatives focus on plain text, local storage and longevity.

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Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Evernote.

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Joplin

Open-source note taking and to-do.

End-to-end encrypted, plain text, fully open source.

OSSOSS

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Bear

Beautiful writing app for Apple.

Tiny team, Markdown-first, premium native feel.

$2.99/moBootstrapped

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Standard Notes

Encrypted, long-term notes app.

Designed for longevity and end-to-end encryption.

$2.99/moOSS

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Obsidian

Local-first Markdown knowledge base.

Tiny team, files on your disk, huge plugin ecosystem.

$50 commercial licenseBootstrapped

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Notesnook

Open-source, encrypted notes.

End-to-end encrypted, by a small open-source team.

$5/moOSS

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