Literally none of those are Google Keep alternatives. They’re all trying to be much more, and as a result they’re much worse at the very simple job Keep does.
I’ve said this many times. Everyone is trying to make a digital notebook. All I want are digital Post-Its.
Thank you!!! It’s crazy how I feel like no one is talking about it, but there isn’t a FOSS alternative to Google Keep. I tried Joplin, Standard Notes, Logseq, Anytype, etc., but none of them are pleasant to use on mobile. (On the other hand, they are good alternatives to Notion, but that’s not what I’m looking for)
I use Notesnook which I find is complete and not bad at all on pc, but the mobile interface is as unintuitive as the other ones mentioned before…
Beaver Notes seems to be a plausible alternative for now, but is today too unstable and too early in its state (as far as the iOS app is concerned anyway).
All of these seem like heavy weight note-taking apps.
Huh those all kinda suck, I switched to Joplin but it’s limited for collaboration.
Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I’m less familiar with that, and assume it’s the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.
Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there’s still a lot you can do.
The thing that kept me using Google Keep for a long time, and that there still is no good replacement for, was live collaborative notes editor with a mobile UI and a repository of owned/shared notes.
Joplin not mentioned. It’s like Standard Notes, but FREE, including cloud sync (many targets available). I used Standard Notes but their business model changed which drove me to look for alternatives and I landed with Joplin. Highly recommended!
I tried a bunch of alternatives and also landed on Joplin. Been using it for a couple years and it works great!
