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Logseq
Logseq — a privacy-first platform for knowledge management: an outliner over your local Markdown files, with a graph, journals and spaced repetition built in
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View guide →Joplin — the privacy-focused note-taking app: Markdown notes and to-dos on every platform, offline-first, with end-to-end encrypted sync you control
Joplin is an open-source productivity project by laurent22 (laurent22/joplin on GitHub). It has 56,771 GitHub stars and 6,347 forks, is released under the Custom (check repo) license, and was last updated on GitHub on 17 October 2026.
Download Joplin for your desktop and phone from joplinapp.org — notes are stored locally and work fully offline.
Pick a sync target in settings — Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Joplin Cloud or a self-hosted Joplin Server — and enable end-to-end encryption if you want the server to store only ciphertext.
Add the Joplin Web Clipper to your browser to save pages and screenshots straight into notebooks, and extend the app with community plugins and themes.
Full native apps on desktop and mobile; your complete notebook is on-device, internet or not.
Sync via Nextcloud, file sync, Joplin Cloud or your own Joplin Server — with end-to-end encryption available.
Notes are Markdown with full-text search, tags, to-dos and attachments; Evernote imports are handled natively.
A browser web clipper for research, and a plugin ecosystem that reshapes the app around your workflow.
Desktop and mobile installers from the official site.
https://joplinapp.org/downloadJoplin Server ships as a Docker image for those who want sync on their own hardware.
docker run -d --name joplin-server -p 22300:22300 joplin/server:latestIn any Joplin app: Settings → Encryption → enable, set a password, and let each device unlock once.
Laurent Cozic and a large open-source community (laurent22/joplin on GitHub); Joplin Cloud is the optional paid service that helps fund it.
The apps are free and open source — check the repository for licence terms. Joplin Cloud, the hosted sync option, is a paid subscription; self-hosting sync is free.
Notes live on your devices; with end-to-end encryption enabled, sync servers only hold encrypted data. Without E2EE, privacy depends on the sync provider you chose.
Against Evernote, Joplin is open source, offline-first and free with your own sync, at the cost of Evernote polish in areas like OCR search. Against Obsidian, Joplin is fully open source with built-in sync targets and to-dos; Obsidian counters with its graph and plugin depth — and a commercial core.
Install the desktop and mobile apps from joplinapp.org, create notebooks, then turn on the sync target of your choice.
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