Awesome Free Apps
Section: Note Taking · Beautiful and powerful tool for creating and organizing documents and notes. 🪟 🍎
FreshScore 89
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Craft
Appears in 4 awesome lists
Beautiful native document editor for Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, and Windows with real-time collaboration.
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Awesome Mac
Section: Note-taking · Notetaking and writing made beautiful.
FreshScore 94
Best MacOS Apps (2026) — Fast, Lightweight, No Electron (2026)
Section: Note-Taking & Writing · Native document editor with sharing. Freemium
FreshScore 85
Awesome Note Taking
Section: Proprietary · Beautiful native document editor for Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, and Windows with real-time collaboration.
ActiveScore 68
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write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool.
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Logseq
Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden.
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OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration.
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Inkdrop
An app for organizing Markdown notes with E2EE sync. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
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Evernote
(Cloud,Mac,Win,Android,iOS,Win Store): Not so lightweight but still very good for managing life especially since it has got a lot of integrations from a lot of other services.
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Anytype
is an app where you can do everything: Protect your thoughts & data with end-to-end encryption. Local, on-device encryption. Only you have encryption keys. Offline account creation: control your keys, own your data. No server, no gatekeeper: peer-to-peer sync on local networks. Locally store your…
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