What are the best indie alternatives to Google Keep?

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

What category does Google Keep fall under?

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

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Alternatives to Google Keep

Google Keep is the basic notes-and-checklists app from Google. Indie alternatives offer encryption or richer features.

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Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Google Keep.

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Standard Notes

Encrypted notes app.

End-to-end encrypted, indie team.

$2.99/moOSS

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Joplin

Open-source note-taking.

Free OSS, encrypted, plain text.

OSSOSS

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Notesnook

Encrypted notes.

Small OSS team, encrypted.

$5/moOSS

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Bear

Apple-only writing app.

Beautiful Markdown notes.

$2.99/moBootstrapped

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Obsidian

Local-first Markdown notes.

Plain files, tiny team.

$50 commercial licenseBootstrapped

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