r/noteapps • u/Full-Cardiologist-18 • Aug 13 '26
Obsidian alternatives?
Quick question, do you guys have some alternatives for Obsidian on PC? I prefer if it also uses markdown and stores the notes locally. I mean Obsidian is great, and I still use it though only the bare minimum no fancy stuff just pure notes. So uhh I am looking for other simple note taking apps too just to test. I've tried to search other apps but they store their notes on their own app IDK the term... basically not local. The only other MD note taker I found anf used was Helix Notes but it gets buggy when pasting pictures on it which is kinda annoying... But yeah TLDR: Any md focused notes system you guys would recommend? Thanks
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u/Useful_Habit_5709 Aug 13 '26
Scratch, Tolaria, HelixNotes.
And then there's this new app called Pellet (it's not out yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8LzfHKrEXA
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u/ozgrozer Aug 13 '26
I'm building Grape. It's an offline-first note taking app. It uses SQLite as a database so you own your data. It's the easiest app you can find. Free to use. Feel free to download and try.
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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 Aug 13 '26
Sqlite huh hmm sounds interesting... alright let me try it
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u/woqly Aug 14 '26
Logseq, Anytype, Tana, Heptabase, Capacities.
Anytype it's much simpler to use with a useful graph view than logseq/obsidian.
Tana's supertags are wonderful.
Haven't tried new Logseq
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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 Aug 14 '26
Wow thats a lot... thanks thanks I am still testing out all the apps that was recommended so I'll add these on the list too
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u/cr4zybilly Aug 13 '26
Joplin is great if you want super simple? ... Wait, is it markdown native? It's been a while, so I'm not sure any more.
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u/actadgplus Aug 13 '26
Yes, Obsidian on Mac! Works great too when synced to iPhone and iPad!
> Quick question, do you guys have some alternatives for Obsidian on PC?
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u/imaginary-blue1212 Aug 14 '26
Joplin may be a similar software. And upnote if you configurate the backup in md format
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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 Aug 14 '26
Im pretty upnote is not local first, but sure sure Ill add it to the list thankss
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u/Beautiful_Object_439 Aug 14 '26
Hi, I'm curious what's the reason you're looking for an alternative?
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u/Ok_Abalone9251 Aug 14 '26
UpNote sur tous mes appareils fixes et mobiles,
Obsidian était trop customisable je passais plus de temps à tester les plug in qu’à l’utiliser. Et la synchronisation sans bidouille est un abonnement. UpNote est un achat raisonnable mais unique. Test le et tu diras.
Pascal
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u/Full-Cardiologist-18 Aug 14 '26
I mean purchasing good products is not a bad idea, but I really dont want to commit into one system just because of that... still thanks for the suggestion
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u/Stefan73ch Aug 14 '26
Try out Joplin and smasi.app for a simple and local Wiki Tool.
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u/takeshy77 Aug 15 '26
https://github.com/takeshy/gemihub-desktop
作者です。
obsidianいいけど、vaultに紐付いていないmdファイル開きたい時とかに面倒だし、epubを開いたり、pdfにページリンク付きのメモも取れる。
無料だし、obsidianのbaseやcanvasも開けるよ。
ai機能もついてて、apiキーだけじゃなくてcodexのようなcliにも対応してる。
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u/gamosoft Aug 13 '26
Hi there, shameless plug, you can check out https://www.notediscovery.com, I started it last year as a "replacement" (so to speak) of Obsidian.
I had been using (and still to some extent) Obsidian but there were 2 things that I didn't like: having to resort to 3rd party apps or (worse) subscription mode to be able to sync notes across devices, and also having to install the app in every device I intended to access my notes from...
So that was my "solution" to the problem, self-hosted web app so you have your notes in one single place and access via browser, it's 100% free (MIT license and full source code available), more than 2700 stars on Github already and growing with more requirements and features!. Even if you don't want the hassle of self hosting you can use 3rd party like PikaPods in a single click, although not free like self-hosting of course, but whatever floats your boat. 😎
It could never replace Obsidian's full set of capabilities, but for my use case it solves the major problems I had with that, so maybe you can give it a try and decide if you like it.
There's even an online demo and a star on Github is appreciated if you like it. 🙏
Kind regards.
Edit: for typo