Beautiful, focused notes for Apple devices
Bear is a Markdown-based note-taking app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad with tag-based organization and an AI writing assistant. It focuses on a clean writing experience.
Classic note-taking and web clipping
Evernote popularised digital note-taking with web clipping, notebooks and powerful search. Many users have drifted away as pricing rose and the app slowed.
All-in-one workspace for notes and docs
Notion combines documents, databases and wikis in a single flexible workspace used by millions of teams.
Self-organising AI notes
Mem captures notes and automatically links, tags and surfaces them, removing the manual database upkeep that workspaces like Notion require.
Free-form digital notebook from Microsoft
OneNote is Microsoft's free-form note-taking app, organizing notes into notebooks, sections, and pages with handwriting, audio, and web clipping support. It integrates deeply with Microsoft 365.
A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
Obsidian stores notes as local Markdown files and lets users build a linked 'second brain' with backlinks and graph view. Plugins extend it with AI and other capabilities.
Quick notes and lists, synced everywhere
Google Keep is a lightweight note-taking app for quick text, checklist, and voice notes, integrated with Google Workspace and Gemini AI suggestions. It's aimed at simple capture rather than deep organization.