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Alternatives to Oatpad
Oatpad: A light Mac notes app with slash commands and rich formatting, stored locally and bought once. Here are 21 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 16 have a free plan, 4 sell for a one-off price, 4 carry proof such as verified revenue, update history or uptime.
- Bear
A Markdown notes and writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that organises notes with tags and syncs through iCloud.
Since 2016Updated 6 days ago
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- ZettelkastenNote
A card based notes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac where you link small ideas together and see them as a graph.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- AI Exporter Hub
Chrome extension that saves your ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other chatbot chats as Markdown, PDF, Notion pages or Obsidian notes.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Anarlog
Mac app that records meetings without a bot and writes editable AI summaries, keeping notes and data on your own machine.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Atomic
A notes app that auto-tags your notes, links related ideas, searches by meaning and writes summaries from them.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Jørnal
A private journal that gives you one blank page per visit and locks each entry once you finish writing.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Minutes
Transcribes meetings, calls and voice memos on your own machine into markdown files that your AI assistant can search.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Notanic
A note app on an endless canvas with nested pages, Markdown, sketching and live collaboration, for people who think visually.
Since 2025
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- OCR Buddy
Free Chrome extension that pulls text, code, math and tables from part of a page offline and saves pages as Markdown for LLMs.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Theorem
An open source reader for EPUB, PDF, comics and RSS that saves your highlights to an Obsidian or Logseq vault as Markdown.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- UpNote
A tidy note app with notebooks, tags and offline sync across phone and computer, plus a web clipper.
One-off payment · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- AI Gist
An app for saving AI prompts as templates, filling in their variables and copying the result, with data kept on your device.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- NormalNotes
Quick Markdown note app for Apple devices that starts on a daily page and works directly with Obsidian vault files.
Since 2026Updated 3 months ago
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Notepad
A paper-style notes app for iPhone and iPad with checklists, handwriting, folders and iCloud sync.
Since 2013Updated 3 days ago
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Notes Plus
A notes app for Mac and Windows modelled on Apple Notes that saves every note as a plain Markdown file in your folders.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Show Speech
Transcribes conversations live on iPhone, iPad and Mac, separating speakers and saving recordings to iCloud.
Since 2024Updated 3 months ago
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Starrise Contacts
Adds dated notes, birthday and contact reminders, and gift ideas to your existing address book on iPhone, iPad and Mac, synced by iCloud.
Since 2025Updated 19 days ago
Free plan · CRM and sales · Individuals and families
- ThinkScribe
Records meetings and calls on Apple devices, transcribes them offline, writes summaries and lets you dictate into any app.
Since 2026Updated 19 days ago
One-off payment · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- Yesterdays
Private iPhone journal for saving memories, sayings and moments with photos and audio, synced through iCloud.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Korvo
Desktop workspace that pulls your files and notes into structured plans and records the reasons behind each decision.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Starcat
Mac app for developers that indexes their starred GitHub repos, tags and summarises them with AI, and tracks new releases.
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers