Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Samata
Hi HN, I’ve been working solo on Samata — a small web app for personal work. I built it because my own notes, tasks, and project context were always scattered across different tools. Notes lived in one app, tasks in another, and projects somewhere else. I wasn’t missing features — I was losing context. Samata is based on a simple idea: everything is a page. A task, a note, a project, an idea — all the same thing at different stages. You start with an empty page, write a thought, link it to other pages, and optionally add a due date or status. When something becomes relevant (for example, due…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1
Notion 2.0▲2,156The all-in-one workspace - notes, tasks, wikis, & databases
2018 · notion.so · its alternatives →
- 2
The all-in-one workspace - notes, tasks, wikis, & databases
2018 · notion.so · its alternatives →
- 3
- 4
- 5
Notion 1.0 Web + Mac App▲1,015Docs, wikis, tasks – a minimal & unified workspace for teams
2016 · notion.so · its alternatives →
- 6
We're building an app that helps people manage their schedule, tasks and notes all in one place. The goal is to create a workspace, where people can manage their various priorities, both personal and professional, see a single schedule combined of all their calendars and manage their days without switching between multiple apps. At the moment we've implemented Google calendar synchronisation, basic tasks and notes. Also Emery has some things we really wanted to see in other apps – private notes for meetings, categories that can be used to group tasks/notes/meetings together, weekly…
2022 · emery.to · its alternatives →
- 7
Routine▲545Hey there! We've been working hard to bring Routine to iOS, allowing busy people to have a single app to manage their calendars, tasks, notes & contacts. Let me know what you think :)
2021 · routine.co · its alternatives →
- 8
Clover▲519A creative workspace with notes, whiteboards, tasks, & more
2021 · cloverapp.com · its alternatives →
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Notea▲288Free self-hosted open source note taking app, like Notion
2021 · cinwell.com · its alternatives →
- 13
Smarkup Notes▲191Extremely simple, productivity-focused, collaboration notes
2022 · smarkup.com · its alternatives →
- 14
Free management app for tasks, notes, projects and cooperation suitable for both professional and personal life.
2015 · notello.com · its alternatives →
- 15IO
Look, every journaling app out there wants you to organize things into folders and tags and templates. I just wanted to write something down every day. So I built this. One note per day. That's the whole deal. - Can't edit yesterday. What's done is done. Keeps you from fussing over old entries instead of writing today's. - Year view with dots showing which days you actually wrote. It's a streak chart. Works better than it should. - No signup required. Opens right up, stores everything locally in your browser. Optional cloud sync if you want it - E2E encrypted with AES-GCM, zero-knowledge,…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
- 16FD
Hey Everyone, been working on a note-taking app called janta (Just Another Note Taking App) the past few months. You can try it out at app.janta.dev (you will be redirected to app.janta.dev/canvas/temporary, which is the locally-stored whiteboard you can access) I felt limited with OneNote, Excalidraw, and other infinite-canvas style apps, so I built an alternative. You have access to code-editors, Desmos graphs, and rich text editors (SlateJS). This is because the canvas is designed in a way that allows web components to exist on the same layer as pen-strokes, so you can annotate…
2025 · app.janta.dev · its alternatives →
- 17
Littlelogs▲145A social journal of progress on your projects
2015 · littlelogs.co · its alternatives →
- 18
- 19
It's dead simple. There's no fancy interface. Basic features are gone. That's all on purpose. If you're like me, you're always writing down ideas on pieces of paper. My webapp is like that, but for the internet. Let me know if you find it useful.
2012 · ideab.in · its alternatives →
- 20
Keeps chains of notes for free
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 21SY
2020 · sheethub.io · its alternatives →
- 22
Launch and grow a Notion membership site however you want
2021 · memberspace.com · its alternatives →
- 23
- 24
notaru is an AI-native productivity app. Write one line of plain language and notaru files it into Tasks, People, Events, Projects and a Journal — tagging people, projects and dates automatically, and linking it all together.
Jun 2026 · notaru.ai · its alternatives →
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →