Anytype is a Swiss cross-platform, privacy-focused app for organizing notes, projects, and personal knowledge bases, designed with an emphasis on local data storage and user control. The software enables users to structure information within a flexible, object-oriented system, allowing the creation and management of complex templates. These templates can optionally be published to a gallery provided by Anytype, supporting knowledge sharing within the user community. Anytype is an open-source project, making its source code publicly accessible and modifiable. The app is available for desktop and mobile devices.
European alternatives to Notion
Notion combines note-taking with project management tools, enabling personalized workspaces for individuals and teams. Due to its flexibility and feature richness, it has become one of the dominant players in the digital workspace market. The service is widely regarded as a benchmark in modern note and knowledge management platforms.
This pages lists European Notion alternatives from companies based in a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
Joplin is an open-source note-taking application with end-to-end encryption, with its associated cloud service operated by a company based in France. The application enables users to create, organize, and synchronize notes across multiple devices, while also supporting local storage and third-party cloud services. User data remains fully under individual control at all times. Joplin is cross-platform and suitable for both personal and professional use.
Supernotes is a cross-platform note-taking app with dedicated apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, as well as having a web app. It's available in multiple european languages, including English, German, French, Italian and Spanish – with the developers encouraging community-driven translations. It's built by a team of two, with the company based in London, UK.
Supernotes encourages to be thoughtful about note-taking, you write short-form notecards. Every notecard is taggable, nestable, linkable, and shareable — so you can connect your knowledge in flexible ways. There are plenty of ways to view your cards too: as a list, a grid, in columns, as a graph, on a map, as flashcards with spaced repetition, or in a table layout.
Craft is a note-taking app from the United Kingdom.
Capacities is a note-taking app from Germany built for thinking, writing, and organizing knowledge around connected objects instead of folders. It helps users build personal knowledge systems by linking notes, people, ideas, and projects in a flexible structure, with templates and rich media support to capture information in context. Capacities is available on desktop and mobile, with synchronization that keeps your workspace accessible across devices.
smasi is a note-taking app from Switzerland. Instead of using Markdown syntax to structure content, this personal note-taking app relies on predefined and specialized section types. This makes it much easier to present and organize information in a visually appealing way. In particular, combining images and text for notes and instructions is effortless. The software is available for Android, iOS (iPhones and iPads), macOS, and Windows. Collections can be synced across different devices via iCloud or WebDAV as needed.
Notefox is a simple note-taking web extension for Firefox. It is a free and open-source project. The main features of Notefox are: take notes, manage notes, search notes, export notes, import notes, sticky notes, text formatting, and more. Notefox is designed to be fast and lightweight, and it is designed to be compatible with all desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux. With a Notefox Account it is possible to synchronize notes between devices.