Self-hosted alternatives
Open source alternatives to Evernote
Evernote is a hosted note-taking app for capturing and finding personal and team notes.
Published by Bending Spoons. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 5 of 5 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.
1Joplin
laurent22/joplin
Docs and wikis. Licence: AGPL-3.0-or-later. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0-or-later
- GitHub stars
- 56,741
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
2Siyuan
siyuan-note/siyuan
Docs and wikis. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 46,775
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
Repository on GitHubProject site
Also listed as an alternative to Notion.
3Logseq
logseq/logseq
Docs and wikis. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 45,234
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
4Trilium
TriliumNext/Trilium
Docs and wikis. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 38,333
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
5Notesnook
streetwriters/notesnook
Docs and wikis. Licence: GPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 14,760
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.