Joplin

Joplin is the Evernote replacement that actually respects your data. Markdown-native note-taking with notebooks, tags, to-dos, and a web clipper that grabs full pages from Chrome and Firefox. Your notes sync via Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Joplin's own cloud service. End-to-end encryption is built in.

Desktop and mobile apps cover every platform: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android. The desktop experience is solid, with a split editor/preview, rich plugins, and custom themes. Importing from Evernote is a first-class feature, preserving formatted content, attachments, and metadata in one shot.

Solo users who left Evernote (or want to) get everything they need for free. Self-hosters running Joplin Server get team sync without paying for cloud. Casual users just point it at Dropbox and never think about infrastructure.

The catch: no real-time collaboration. The sync model is file-based, not operational transforms, so conflict resolution is basic. Mobile apps have historically lagged the desktop. And if you need Notion-style databases and kanban boards alongside your notes, Joplin doesn't do that.