Evernote is one of the most popular note-taking platforms at the moment. In case you are looking for other options, here are our picks for the best Evernote alternatives.

Evernote is an application designed for note taking, organizing, task lists, and archiving. It allows its users to create notes, which can be text, web pages or web page excerpts, photographs, voice memos, or handwritten “ink” notes.

Notes can also have file attachments. Evernote was launched in June 2008 and since then has been one of the most popular and feature packed note-taking software. It was estimated to have 220 million users worldwide in 2017.

Though it is feature packed, all of its features sometimes make the user experience clunky and unintuitive. Moreover, it charges approximately 5 USD every month to use some of its features.

If you are someone who is trying to avoid the heavy user interface or the premium price tag or some other reason, here is the list of best Evernote alternatives that you can try out.

Keep Notes

Keep Notes is a note-taking service developed by Google. Launched on March 20, 2013, Keep Notes was earlier known as Google keep and is available on the web and has mobile apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.

Keep Notes is often praised for features including universal device access, native integration with other Google services, and the option to turn photos into text through optical character recognition.

Support for audio notes, automatic transcription, checklists, images, reminders; ability to search for text in photos, such as images of receipts; categorization of notes by topic, color, labels are some noteworthy features of Keep Notes. Though it is not as feature packed as Evernote, it will get the job done for most.

For more info, click here.

Apple Notes

Apple Notes is hands down one of the best Note taking software out there. Yes, I know what you are thinking – Apple Notes app is only available for Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, or Mac. I agree.

But if you are an Apple user, then there is simply no other Note taking app that even comes close to the convenience that Apple Notes app offers.

You can organize notes in folders. If you use a mac, you can take quick notes by simply moving your cursor to the bottom right corner of your machine. Above everything, the one thing that I love about Apple Notes is that you can easily hide sensitive information on specific notes with a passcode or biometric.

For more info, check here.

OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries.

OneNote was available as a part of Microsoft Office; this version is abandoned and only a feature-reduced and touch-optimized Windows 10 App is available. OneNote is available on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Web, Apple Watch, Wear OS, Chrome OS.

OneNote is a great alternative to Evernote as it has almost all the features of OneNote and most importantly, it does not have a price tag.

For more info, click here.

Simplenote

Simplenote is a note-taking application with markdown support. In addition to cross-platform apps, it can be accessed via most web browsers. If ease of use is your priority, then Simplenote is the best alternative to Evernote.

It is available on Windows, macOS, Linux(.deb), Linux(.tar.gz), Android and iOS. And you can easily sync notes across your devices of different platforms. Moreover, the app is very lightweight and will not affect your device’s performance as well.

The only downside of Simplenote is the fact that you cannot attach pictures to your notes.

For more info, click here.

Dropbox Paper

Dropbox Paper, or simply Paper, is a collaborative document-editing service developed by Dropbox. Dropbox Paper was officially announced in October 2015 and launched in January 2017.

It offers a web application, as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS. It is available on all popular platforms such as Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux and Web. It has a minimalistic interface which is very easy to use.

It is still very young so one can expect many new features in the upcoming updates.

For more info, click here.

Box Notes

Box Notes is a note-taking app built for teams working together and sharing ideas. It’s simple and easy to create meeting notes, share status updates and plan projects together and have it instantly available on every device.

It is more of a workplace than a notetaking app. It is a very useful application for students, writers and similar people who work as a team and need to share ideas, notes, and similar stuff.

A point to be noted is that it offers 10 GB of cloud storage for every user. It is available across various platforms such as Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Web.

For more info, click here.