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Products that do what Material Notes does

Simple no hassle notes app in a beautiful material design

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Dumbnote▲141
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2
UpNote▲161
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3
Better Notes▲359
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4
NerdyNotes▲176
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5
Standard Notes▲164
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6
SideNotes 1.3▲259
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Notea▲288
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8
Browser Notes▲128
Your ideas, organized - not uploaded
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Serenity Notes▲151
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2021
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Pasteline▲142
Add your notes, links, and ideas in seconds
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Notrix▲150
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2022
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Element Note▲128
Your digital notebook, reimagined
2022
14
KristNotes▲86
Open-source shared notes with Markdown & Mermaid support
Sep 2025
15
StickyNoted▲71
Sticky Note with Markdown flavour
2020
16
Smarkup Notes▲191
Extremely simple, productivity-focused, collaboration notes
2022
17
Paper▲111
🚀 An offline note taking app with "networkless" sharing
2019
18
Writer▲134
Beautiful, fast, native notes app with Markdown
2021
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Notebook▲251
The beautifully simple note-taking app
2016
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Simple Note▲84
Simplest Note app from your web browser.
2020
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Umbrella Note – Simple app for notes and journals▲71
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Grid Note▲130
A smart way to note with structured layouts 📝
2018
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PeekNote▲176
Lightweight always-on-top notes for devs & multitaskers
2025
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NotesHub▲95
Fully cross-platform, markdown based note-taking app
2021

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