Best Note-taking Tools
Discover and compare the top-rated Note-taking solutions in 2026.
All Note-taking Tools
AudioPen
Freemium
AudioPen turns rambling voice recordings into clean, structured text written in a style you choose.
Speech to polished text rather than word-for-word transcriptionUp to 15 minutes per recordingUnlimited note storage
Pricing
View $99 /yr
Audionotes
Freemium
Audionotes is an AI note-taker that turns voice, audio, video and text into structured summaries, transcripts and a searchable knowledge base.
Voice, audio and video to structured text summariesNotes from images and from YouTube videosChat with your notes across a personal knowledge base
Pricing
View $129.99 /yr
Cluing (formerly Collabwriting)
Freemium
Collaborative research workspace that captures highlights from web pages, PDFs, YouTube, Kindle and newsletters into a shared knowledge base any AI model can use.
Browser extension to highlight and save snippets from any source with source linksCollaboration with comments, mentions, tags and clusters, shareable with non-usersAI organisation: chat-based sorting, suggestions and knowledge triggers
Pricing
View $12 (2 options)
Granola
Freemium
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings that captures audio without bots.
Bot-free audio capture (system-level audio)AI-enhanced meeting notes based on transcript contextAsk Granola AI chat for follow-ups and summaries
Pricing
View $14 (2 options)
Obsidian
Freemium
A local-first, highly extensible knowledge management app that stores notes in plain text Markdown.
Local-first storage using plain text MarkdownInteractive Graph View to visualize note connectionsBacklinking and Wiki-links for networked thinking
Pricing
View $5 (3 options)
AFFiNE
Freemium
A privacy-first KnowledgeOS that merges documents, whiteboards, and databases into a single hyper-fused workspace.
Hyper-Fused Workspace with Page and Edgeless modesLocal-first architecture for data ownership and offline accessMultimodal AI for content generation and mind mapping
Pricing
View $7.99 (3 options)