General Features
| Name | Software license | Cost | Platforms | Organizing principle(s) | Tabbed sections | Synchronizing | PDF annotate, save | Whiteboarding | Keyboard text entry | Write notes via pen-ink | Handwriting Recognition | Printing | Formats | Remarks |
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| AllMyNotes Organizer | Proprietary | Freemium | Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 | tree | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, HTML, RTF, EverNote, KeyNote, CSV, images. Exports to plain text, html, rtf. | Access restriction by password, alarms, tasks, icons, rich text, file attachments, outlining, portable, skins, multilingual, autobackup, capture text via tray icon, spell checker, auto-backups (history). |
| AudioNote - Notepad and Voice Recorder | Proprietary | Freemium | Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7 | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Proprietary. Imports from plain text, images, PDF, audio. Exports to plain text, PDF, audio. | Synchronized note-taking and audio recording. |
| BasKet Note Pads | GPL | Free | Linux | ? | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Rich text (export as HTML) | Features adding, managing notes by category, importing text files, images, sounds, autosave. |
| Catch Notes | Proprietary | Freemium | Android, iOS, and web-based | Hashtags | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Text, photo and voice notes, export to CSV or HTML | Passcode protection, reminders, spaces to share notes |
| CintaNotes | Proprietary | Freemium | Windows | Notebooks, sections, tags | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | Proprietary, export to Unicode text, XML and HTML | Tagging and searching for tags, tag hierarchy |
| Circus Ponies NoteBook | Proprietary | Commercial software | Mac OS X, iOS | indexing | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary, export: html, opml, rtf, txt, doc, pdf | Features adding, managing note entries, outlining, tabs, tagging, automatic indexing, sketching, diagramming, PDF markup, advanced search features, voice annotated notes, screen clipping, importing files (text, audio, video), link or embed files, etc. |
| DéjàClick | Proprietary | Commercial software | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows | ? | ? | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | XML | Features ability to annotate live web pages via DéjàNotes and share scripts. Notes may include rich text or HTML and can be printed and saved as a normal web page via the Firefox browser. |
| Emacs' org-mode | GPL | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows | tree, tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar | |
| Evernote | Proprietary | Freemium for personal use, Per seat licensing for business | Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Windows Phone, Blackberry, HP WebOS and web-based | tags, Notebooks, Stacks | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Notes stored as XML. Both Free and Paid version allows notes in any file type. | There is a Free/Premium model for personal use, and a Business version for companies. Business and Personal are integrated in the same client, but segregated within the client. Businesses have administrative control over business notes, but cannot see personal notes. |
| Gnote | GPL v3 | Free | Linux | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF | Port of Tomboy to C++, wiki-style linked notes |
| Jarnal | GPL | Free | Any Java enabled platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | ad-hoc (zip compatible archive containing an SVG per page, a config file, optional background PDFs/images). Can export to txt, html, jpg, pdf. | |
| Keeppy | Proprietary | Free | web-based | ? | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | HTML/JSON. | Allows compiling notes into stories and share them |
| KeepNote | GPL | Free | Cross platform (Python + GTK): Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | tree | ? | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | HTML/XML. Export to HTML. | Notes are saves as HTML files. Organization is done via a file tree and XML. |
| KeyNote | MPL | Free | Windows | tree | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ||
| KNote | Creative commons | Freeware | Windows | tags | No | Yes, with external tools | Yes, with external tools | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | xml, can attach any files/folders. Support import from tiddlywiki and copy/paste with formats from browsers and Microsoft Word | bank-grade encryption/password protection, one-click blogging, wiki links, WYSIWYG editor, portable, no installations are required. |
| m> notes notepad | Proprietary | Freemium | Android | Notebooks, sub-notes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Text, photo, colors, icons, marks. Export via sharing Android function. | Organize notes and sub-notes into colored notebooks. Add photos to notes from camera or gallery |
| Memonic | Proprietary | Freemium | Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web-based | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Notes stored as XML. Can attach any filetype. | Integrates into a number of different platforms.for free user only 100 notes supported. |
| Microsoft OneNote | Proprietary | Commercial software | Android, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Symbian, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, web-based, mobile web | Notebooks, sections, pages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Supports inserting images, audio and video-recording, screen clipping and drawings. Supports importing from web pages or any Windows application by means of a virtual printer. Supports attaching files of any types to the note, similar to email attachments. Can search text, audio, pictures and handwritten input in Microsoft Tablet PCs. Files can by synchronized to multiple desktop PCs, laptops, mobile phone, a Windows Live SkyDrive account or to a SharePoint site. |
| MyInfo | Proprietary | Commercial software | Windows XP/Vista/7 | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, RTF, CSV, Ms Word, images. Exports to plain text, HTML, RTF, CSV, Ms Word. | Spell-checking, text styles, search in multiple files, import web pages, tags, filters, calendar, reminders, attachments. |
| MyNotex | GPL | Free | Linux | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Sqlite based, zipped attachments, export to HTML, copying as LaTeX | Features text formatting, file attachments, tagging, searching, notes management by subject, encryption with AES algorithm, text files and OpenOffice.org documents import. Multilingual. |
| Notational Velocity | GPL v3 | Free | Mac OS X | ? | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | TXT, RTF | Instant open and searching. Plain and RTF text only. Sync via dropbox, etc. or via SimpleNote service |
| Notee | LGPL | Free | Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7, web-based | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | HTML | Simple and easy to use |
| Notizen .NET | Free | Windows XP/Vista/7 | tree | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | TXT (ansi/unicode), RTF, ALX | Tree Notes can stick on the desktop, Encryption, FTP-Updoad | |
| Okular | GPL | Free | Linux, Unix | ? | ? | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, various others | Can export PDF + notes, for sending to other Okular users |
| PDF Studio | Proprietary | Commercial software | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Review and markup PDF documents. | |
| Personal Knowbase | Proprietary | Commercial software | Windows | tags | ? | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV | Supports tags, hypertext, attachments, passwords. Portable. |
| Qiqqa | Proprietary | Freemium | Windows XP/Vista/7 | tags, brainstorm | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Proprietary, PDF, Brainstorm | Export all notes and annotations to RTF, Word or Brainstorm. |
| SilverNote | Proprietary | Freemium | Windows XP/Vista/7 | tags | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | HTML, SVG | Drawing/sketching, web clipping, screen capturing, file attachments, encryption |
| TiddlyWiki | BSD | Free | Cross-platform (browser, web-based) | tags (wikiwords) | Via plugin | Yes | Via plugin | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | HTML | extensible via plugins and user scripts |
| Tomboy | LGPL | Free | Cross-platform | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats | Reminders, to do-lists, formulae in LaTeX |
| TreeDBNotes | Proprietary | Freemium | Microsoft Windows | tree | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | RTF, HTML, txt | tree-structured organizer |
| WikidPad | BSD | Free | Cross-platform | tags (wikiwords) | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | HTML | personal wiki software |
| Windows Journal | Proprietary | Commercial software | Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7 | ? | No | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | |
| XLnotes | Proprietary | Commercial software | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 | free form | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Stores notes inside Microsoft Excel workbook | Microsoft Excel add-in that allows to create notes which contain Word documents, web pages and attachmens |
| Xournal | GPL | Free | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | ? | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | XML, export to PDF | |
| Zim | GPL | Free | Cross-platform | tags (wikiwords) | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes, using installed web browser | stored in modified DocuWiki markdown, export to HTML, LaTeX, Pandoc markdown, Sphinx RST (reStructuredText) | sqlite3 indexes |
| Name | Software license | Cost | Platforms | Organizing principle(s) | Tabbed sections | Synchronizing | PDF annotate, save | Whiteboarding | Keyboard text entry | Write notes via pen-ink | Handwriting Recognition | Printing | Formats | Remarks |
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