Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hiro – Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search
Hiro is a notetaking application that combines fast, responsive note creation with semantic search capabilities. Launched in 2013, it allows users to quickly capture and organize notes while using intelligent search to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hiro – Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey! I made Heynote entirely for my own use case. For many years, I always had an Emacs instance running with the scratch buffer open, even long after I had abandoned Emacs as my programming editor in favor of more recent IDE:s. The simplicity of having just one big scratch buffer appeals to me, but I still want to separate the different things I jot down somehow (without using tabs or similar). Previously, my solution was to insert a bunch of blank lines between the notes, but hitting C-A would still select the entire buffer. That's why I came up with the concept of "blocks", which turned…
2023 · heynote.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN – we first launched Supernotes[1] to HN in April 2020, and since then Tobias and I (it's just the two of us) have put in the work to make what we hope is an amazing note-taking app. Although the note-taking / personal knowledge management landscape is incredibly competitive at the moment (with lots of great apps adding great new features every day), we think that with the newly released Supernotes 2 we're keeping pace and delivering a unique and satisfying knowledge management experience. Here's the combination of features that make us stand out: - a powerful markdown-based…
2022 · supernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Hypernotes▲313Create, share, and understand knowledge in a new way
2021 · zenkit.com · its alternatives →
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Better Notes▲357Simple notes app that ties notes together with #hashtags
2016 · betternotesapp.com · its alternatives →
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Kraa 1.0▲359Hi HN! Excited to share the public beta of Kraa – a web-based markdown editor. It's aiming to be distraction-free and has strong separation of the document's styling from the experience of writing it — while still alowing for rich customization. Example of a leaf with custom styles: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary Curious about your feedback in hopes of improving Kraa before the planned launch later this year.
Dec 2025 · kraa.io · its alternatives →
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NotePlan 3▲264Native (Mac & iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files
2020 · noteplan.co · its alternatives →
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PeekNote▲176Lightweight always-on-top notes for devs & multitaskers
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal-based, hyper-fast, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking tool - Sambigeara/fuzzynote
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NotesHub 3.3▲135Fully cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app
2024 · about.noteshub.app · its alternatives →
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A simple collaborative note-taking app
2020 · kvak.io · its alternatives →
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NoteThisDown▲162Your handwritten notes straight to Notion. In seconds.
2024 · note-this-down.com · its alternatives →
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A Markdown-based note-taking app for mobile devices. - redsolver/noteless
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wellnote▲15Browser based minimal, fast and feature rich note taker.
2024 · dolph-69334.web.app · its alternatives →
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Dumbnote▲141Offline-first Markdown note app. No lock-in. Just write.
2025 · dumbnote.app · its alternatives →
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