Best Note-taking Tools

Discover and compare the top-rated Note-taking solutions in 2026.

All Note-taking Tools

Fabric

Paid

Fabric is an AI workspace that stores notes, files, links and meeting recordings in one place and lets an AI assistant search, summarise and act on them.

Notes, docs, canvas, bookmarks and file storage in one workspaceAI assistant that searches and summarises everything you have savedAI notetaker for voice and meeting recordings with transcription

Pricing

$10 (2 options)

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Workflowy

Freemium

Minimalist infinite outliner for organizing notes, tasks and ideas as nested bullet lists.

Infinitely nested bullet lists with zoom into any itemTags, search and filtering across the whole outlineKanban board and checklist views

Pricing

$8.99 (2 options)

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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

$99 /yr

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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

$129.99 /yr

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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

$12 (2 options)

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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

$14 (2 options)

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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

$5 (3 options)

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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

$7.99 (3 options)

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