Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps for Windows as of September 2025 - Page 2

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    NoteLedge

    NoteLedge

    Kdan Mobile

    NoteLedge is a digital notebook for designers and content creators to capture inspiration, make mood boards, and accelerate your creative process. Capture ideas and get creative in your unique style. Watch this video and learn how to bring ideas to life with NoteLedge. NoteLedge comes with powerful multimedia tools for you to capture inspiration anywhere. Discover and save ideas from Pinterest and websites. Take notes and add annotations to highlight what matters most. Organize everything and create mood boards to visualize your thoughts. NoteLedge's flexible workspace allows you to arrange content with layers get creative with your projects. Follow your thoughts and start your own creation! Make beautiful sketches and drawing with a variety of brushes made for designers. Play around photos and stickers to create collages or artworks. Export notes to PDFs with multimedia content embedded. Present your work to clients in slideshow or share ideas with teammates.
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    WizNote

    WizNote

    WizNote

    Leave brain for thinking, let WizNote to remember. Webpage collected, full text search, folders and markdown. Get the Docker image of WizNote Server, for free! Clip webpage, and blog, import variable files, conquer the fragmentation. Checklist, handwriting, photos, voices, attachments, more than just text. Light editing tool, markdown supported, upload data to the server. Historical version, once saved, permanently saved. Groups, folders and tags. Get data organized, full-text search, shortcut of notes. Locate folders and notes, create and collaborate, boost your work. Create shared workplace, connect people with comments. Improve work by jointly editing, and move work forward. Keep work organized, stay in same version, same pace. Get rid of repetition and work better together. Hosted on your own infrastructure, scaled to your needs. Get WizNote on mobile, tablet and computer.
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    Cling

    Cling

    Cling

    Simplify your teamwork - Content, organization, and teamwork in one app. Work together and don't stress yourself. Cling offers a new approach to teamwork. Instead of using various tools, complex workflows, and hustling communication, Cling allows you to work stress-free and harmonically together. An appealing content and task structure and a consistent version history ensure that every team member stays informed and integrated at all times. At Cling, the focus is on the team, but not on the technology. Instead of many tools, complex workflows and rushed communication, Cling is about trouble-free work. Task planning, processing and coordination can all be done in Cling. Now, teamwork is really fun.
    Starting Price: €5 per user per month
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    Stashpad

    Stashpad

    Stashpad

    Stashpad is a note-taking app crafted specifically for technically-minded individuals. But, it’s also suitable for 'brain-dumpers' too. That's anyone in need of a seamless way to store their unfiltered, ad-hoc, stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Drawing inspiration from the experience of DMing yourself in Slack, Stashpad is here to replace Apple Notes, sticky notes, and other makeshift solutions, all while keeping you impeccably organized. Features: - Easily compartmentalise 'raw' thoughts - Clean, intuitive, DM-style interface - Markdown support - Intuitive keybindings (all customizable) - Syntax highlighting.
    Starting Price: $10/month
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    Anytype

    Anytype

    Any Association

    Anytype is a no-code, all-in-one app that respects user privacy and data ownership. Anyone can use Anytype to build a space - a safe place for your notes, documents, tasks, project planners, databases, and more. Anytype uses an object-oriented approach towards data management, wherein any unit of data can be linked to any other unit in a graph format. Our community loves us for the elegant interface and focus on data sovereignty. The software ensures full encryption of data and does not rely on a central server. It provides an option for peer-to-peer direct data transfer, helping users exchange data without exposing it to intermediaries. The software uses local memory to store data so the users can use it without any upload limits.
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    TheBrain

    TheBrain

    TheBrain Technologies

    Where can you really go on your computer today to hash out a new idea, current event, or expand your plans in a meaningful way? TheBrain lets you digitize your mind so you can literally see your thinking and refine your ideas. Each of your Thoughts comes to life on-screen with connections to other related Thoughts, creating a context for thinking and action. Your Brain can store an unlimited amount of all kinds of information. Write notes for all your ideas. Save files, web pages, images and even emails into TheBrain for instant access. Adding things is as simple as drag and drop. Activate any idea or file in seconds. TheBrain not only brings up the right idea but lets you see how it relates to everything else… so you are prepared for anything. This means you can shift contexts quickly and get an immediate visual briefing by viewing connected topics.
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    Simplenote

    Simplenote

    Simplenote

    Notes stay updated across all your devices, automatically and in real time. There’s no “sync” button: It just works. Add tags to find notes quickly with instant searching. Share a to-do list, post some instructions, or publish your notes online. Notes are backed up with every change, so you can see what you noted last week or last month. Write, preview, and publish your notes in markdown format. Apps, backups, syncing, sharing – it’s all completely free. You can browse the notes you want to import or drag and drop a file into the import window. The app takes care of the rest. If you’re importing notes with markdown formatting and you’d like to keep them that way, check the enable markdown on all notes box and they’ll be automatically configured as markdown notes in simplenote.
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    KeepNote

    KeepNote

    KeepNote

    With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, todo lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference. KeepNote is designed to be cross-platform (implemented in Python and PyGTK) and stores your notes in simple and easy to manipulate file formats (HTML and XML). Archiving and transferring your notes is as easy as zipping or copying a folder. In KeepNote, you can customize the icons that appear next to your notes. To change a note's icon, right-click on the note and locate the Change Icon menu. You will then see a list of icons to choose from (see left screenshot below). You can use this feature to mark notes that are your favorite (heart), important (start, exclamation mark) or done (check mark).
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    Org Mode

    Org Mode

    Org Mode

    Org is implemented on top of Outline mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in table editor. Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. Org develops organizational tasks around notes files that contain lists or information about projects as plain text. Project planning and task management make use of metadata which is part of an outline node. Based on this data, specific entries can be extracted in queries and create dynamic agenda views that also integrate the Emacs calendar and diary. Org can be used to implement many different project planning schemes, such as David Allen’s GTD system. Org files can serve as a single source authoring system with export to many different formats such as HTML, LaTeX, Open Document, and Markdown.
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    Laverna

    Laverna

    Laverna

    Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview. The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes. Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account. Keep simple to do lists organized in notes and notebooks. You can manage your notes without ever lifting your hands from your keyboard. Keep snippets of code to have access to them anytime and anywhere. Do you prefer to stay anonymous? You do not need to go through registration process to start using Laverna. You can export your notes from Laverna and import them back anytime. You are not tied to using it forever. Every line of code can be reviewed on GitHub and is available under MPL-2.0 license. Available anytime and anywhere, keep your notes private.
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    cherrytree

    cherrytree

    cherrytree

    A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe). The user manual online html and downloadable ctb written by Ellie Borden. Syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages. Embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk. Hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders). Cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables. Copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text.
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    MindForger

    MindForger

    MindForger

    Where do you keep your private remarks like ideas, personal plans, exam preparation notes, gift tips, how-tos, dreams, business visions, finance strategies, meeting minutes and auto coaching notes? Loads of documents, sketches and remarks spread around the file system, cloud, web and Post-it notes? Are you affraid of your knowledge privacy? Are you able to find particular remarks once you create them? Do you know how are the remarks mutually related when you browse, read or write them? MindForger aims to mimic human mind, learning, recalling, recognition, associations, forgetting, in order to achieve synergy with your mind to make your searching, reading and writing more productive. MindForger ensures that you own your personal data. It respects privacy and enables security of your knowledge. MindForger seeks knowledge hidden in your remarks to enable its mining. MindForger starts where editors and search engines end. It thinks as you search, browse, read and write.
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    noteee

    noteee

    noteee

    noteee is a Windows application that lets you add notes and reminders on your windows desktop. Ever wanted a reliable and easy-to-use applications to remember your daily tasks at work. This is the application for you.
    Starting Price: $5 per month
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    Hurd.ai

    Hurd.ai

    Hurd.ai

    Capture every word of lectures, meetings, and conversations with Hurd.ai. Focus on what’s being said while Hurd.ai takes notes, tags, and summarizes transcripts for you. Focus on being in the moment with Hurd.ai, stay present and attentive to what’s being said without worrying about taking notes or missing key points. Other popular services charge by the minute or have usage limits. Hurd.ai allows unlimited recordings without restriction. Harness the power of AI machine learning technology to convert audio files into searchable text you can highlight, filter, and group. Save time and energy while Hurd.ai automatically titles, tags, and summarizes transcripts for you. Use the inline editing tool to add to your transcript.
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    WhizFolders

    WhizFolders

    AvniTech Solutions

    Make all your Notes, Ideas and Writing Snippets extremely useful by Outlining them with this Innovative Tool. Go beyond common note apps that merely collect information because the real work starts afterward. Get a quick idea of this concept below. Use WhizFolders trial and in a few sessions, you will get the idea of using the tool for your own purpose. Add a few notes and child notes and you will get the idea. In fact, how you use WhizFolders is limited only by your imagination. Please see a Presentation on the Whizfolders website. The real work begins only after that. WhizFolders helps you "Outline" your Notes in order to Reorganize, Review and Understand them better. WhizFolders is the perfect note taking software to learn "Outlining," a skill that helps you brainstorm your ideas and understand new concepts better by learning to break them into smaller thoughts in a hierarchical list.
    Starting Price: $24.95