Alternatives to Supernotes
Card-based networked notes
Supernotes ranks #10 of 22 in Personal knowledge management, with an Alt Score of 78. It is proprietary, freemium from £6/month and available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and Web. 13 of 14 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Students, researchers, and professionals (writers, developers, lawyers, educators) who capture a lot of small ideas, notes, and tasks and want them organized without heavy folder structures.
Notes live as individual cards that can hold text, checklists, tables, images, and math, rather than long linear documents. Cards can be linked to each other and explored visually in a graph view, and organized into tags, collections, and separate spaces for personal, family, or work use. Sharing lets others view a card without needing an account, while registered collaborators can co-edit and comment in real time. Built-in AI helps with tasks like catching typos and reorganizing content.
You capture a thought as a new card via a keyboard shortcut or quick-add, then link it to related cards and file it under tags or collections instead of a rigid folder tree. Cards sync across devices and can be shared or opened for collaborative editing as needed.
Where Supernotes stands out
Verified capabilities most alternatives don't have.
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Feature comparison
Rows come from the Personal knowledge management checklist (18 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for Supernotes is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-12
Unlimited
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Pricing model Freemium verified 2026-07-12
100 cards
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Starts at £6/month verified 2026-07-12
£6/month
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Platforms Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web verified 2026-07-12
Download for Mac
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Status active verified 2026-07-12
What's New?
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Markdown support Yes verified 2026-07-12
Markdown helps you style text quickly, so you can think about what you are writing rather than how to format it.
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Block-based editing Yes verified 2026-07-12
Notecards collaborative, linkable, nestable and so much more.
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Backlinks / graph view Yes verified 2026-07-12
Visualize your knowledge in 2D and 3D with our Graph View.
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Databases & tables Partial verified 2026-07-12
Jump into Table Layout to organise your notes in a table. You can also use it to create new notes, or to edit existing ones.
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Templates Yes verified 2026-07-12
The Supernotes editor has a very simplistic templating system that allows you to easily save 'templates' that can be then easily pasted into another card.
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Real-time collaboration Yes verified 2026-07-12
Share, edit & publish a note in realtime
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Web clipper No verified 2026-07-12
Building a web clipper has been on the horizon for a while, along with lots of other open feature requests.
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Sync between devices (native) Yes verified 2026-07-12
Fast Sync
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Local-first storage Partial verified 2026-07-12
Supernotes works offline, so you can keep taking notes without any interruptions.
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Plugins / extensions Partial verified 2026-07-12
Use the Supernotes API to build your own integration with your favorite app or service.
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Daily notes Yes verified 2026-07-12
We have a dedicated view for all of the notecards you interact with throughout each day.
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Task management built in Yes verified 2026-07-12
Every notecard that has an open tasks will automatically appear in the Tasks Collection.
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Publish to web Yes verified 2026-07-12
You can edit the notecard together or publish to it the web via a secret link.
https://supernotes.app/features
FAQ
Yes. Craft, Trilium Notes and Logseq have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
AppFlowy, Trilium Notes and Logseq — every license claim links its source.