Instead of Standard Notes, try one of these 11.
Every alternative is lined up against Standard Notes on what people actually switch for: price, open source, self-hosting, offline use and platforms. Standard Notes sits in the first row, so you can see what you give up.
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Standard Notes alternatives at a glance
Standard Notes is a freemium productivity app (from $7/mo). We compared 11 alternatives: 7 are open source, 6 are completely free, 3 can be self-hosted and 6 work fully offline. The most popular is Obsidian, with 3.9k likes.
Private, local-first knowledge base built on plain Markdown files.
Freemium · Works offlineOutliner for networked thought, with backlinks and daily journals.
Free · Open source · Works offlineOpen-source Notion alternative you can fully own and self-host.
Freemium · Open source · Self‑hostable · Works offlineOpen-source note taking with end-to-end encrypted sync.
Free · Open source · Self‑hostable · Works offline