Best LocalNotes Alternatives in 2026
Taken from Secure Notes Apps, where LocalNotes is listed too, in the same order.
- 1
8.8 Club scoreCryptee
Cryptee combines encrypted cloud storage for photos and videos with an editor for documents, journals and notes.
- Free plan
- Open source
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 2
8.6 Club scorePrivacyNotes
PrivacyNotes is an end-to-end encrypted personal workspace for notes, tasks, files, a vault, journals, and bookmarks.
- Free plan
- Open source
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 3 8.4 Club score
Turtl
Turtl is a collaborative notebook for keeping bookmarks, passwords, files, shopping lists, and other notes organized.
- Free plan
- Open source
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Android
- 4
8.4 Club scoreJoplin
Joplin is an open-source note-taking app for keeping notes across devices, with offline access, sharing, and synchronization options.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 5 8.4 Club score
Notesnook
Notesnook is a note-taking app for web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 6
8.3 Club scoreQOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a free, GPL-licensed Markdown note-taking application for people who want notes stored as local files.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 7
7.9 Club scoreAnytype
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · iPhone and iPad
- 8
7.9 Club scoreDash
Dash is a notes app for Mac and iPhone, with a web PWA for other supported platforms, including Android.
- Free plan
- macOS · Web · iPhone and iPad · Android
- 9 7.8 Club score
SecNotes
SecNotes is an Android note-taking app for personal data, with text notes, spreadsheets, and checklists.
- Free plan
- Web · Android
- 10
7.7 Club scoreStandard Notes
Standard Notes is a note-taking app with offline access across Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 11 7.7 Club score
Nolio
Nolio is a free, open-source notes app that keeps encrypted notes on the device, without cloud storage, third-party servers or telemetry.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
- 12 7.6 Club score
OpenVLT
OpenVLT is a self-hosted notes app that stores note content as plain Markdown files on your server.
- Free plan
- macOS · Linux · Web · Self-hosted
- 13 7.5 Club score
Lockpad
- Free plan
- Web · Self-hosted
- 14 7.5 Club score
SilentNotes
SilentNotes is a free, open-source note-taking app for Android and Windows.
- Free plan
- Windows · Android
- 15
7.4 Club scoreBinderus
Binderus is a free, local-first note-taking app for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Free plan
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- 16 7.4 Club score
NULVEX
NULVEX is described on its supplied site as AndroidIRCx, an IRCv3-compliant client for Android.
- Free plan
- Android
- 17 7.4 Club score
NoteSR
NoteSR is an offline-first Android note-taking app that keeps notes in encrypted storage on the device.
- Free plan
- Android
- 18 7.3 Club score
Safe Notes
- Free plan
- Windows · Linux
- 19 7.3 Club score
Snoq
- Free plan
- Windows
- 20 7.2 Club score
MadNotes
- Free plan
- Web