Best Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial of 2025

Plottr

Plottr lets you easily arrange (and rearrange) your scenes, plots, and character arcs so you can quickly find your way to the end of your tale — no corkboard required. Plottr automatically generates a clean outline of your story for you to review, edit, and export as the basis of your manuscript. You don’t have to start from scratch. Plottr comes with over a dozen templates (and counting) based on proven storytelling structures to help move your story from idea to execution. The fun is just beginning. Once you've finished outlining your story, Plottr makes it easy to start writing — just export your files and let your creative muscles get to work!

103 Ratings

Starting Price: $15

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ShixxNOTE

Mavel

ShixxNOTE is a desktop sticky notes (post-it) program, that allows you to keep desktop sticky notes, and also send them across the network (or Internet) to friends or colleagues. The program runs in client/server mode and transmits messages or notes to selected ShixxNOTE clients on the network. However, you can also send messages to machines that do not have ShixxNOTE installed, in which case the program will automatically use the standard Windows Messenger service to deliver the message. It also includes alarm options that allow you to be reminded of selected notes, and support full formatting of font, color and appearance of the notes. Other features include a reply option, emailing of notes, note export, printing and more.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $24.99

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Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft

Microsoft OneNote is your all-in-one digital notebook for capturing ideas, organizing thoughts, and collaborating seamlessly. With Copilot in OneNote, you can draft plans, generate ideas, and structure your notes using simple natural-language prompts. Sketch, annotate, and highlight freely using digital ink that feels as natural as pen on paper. Share notebooks in real time to brainstorm, plan, or learn together with teammates, classmates, or family. Built-in voice transcription ensures you never miss key details from meetings or lectures. Whether at home, school, or work, OneNote helps you stay organized and creative across all your devices.

32 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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Notion

Notion Labs

Notion is a highly versatile and collaborative workspace designed to help individuals and teams manage documents, wikis, projects, and tasks efficiently. It offers a wide array of features like customizable views for workflows, project tracking, and document creation, all within a single platform. Notion allows users to create a shared knowledge base, organize notes, and collaborate seamlessly on content creation. Additionally, its built-in AI assistance features help users summarize, write, and instantly search for relevant content, significantly enhancing productivity. The platform integrates effortlessly with other popular apps such as Slack, Google Drive, and Trello, providing a seamless experience for teams looking for an all-in-one platform to manage their projects, goals, and knowledge in an organized, collaborative environment.

24 Ratings

Starting Price: $12/user/month

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FuseBase

FuseBase - The AI-Powered Workspaces & Agent Platform for Modern Teams Workspaces that Work, Agents that Do. In FuseBase, you can automate work, unlock productivity, and deliver standout experiences to clients, partners, and employees. Create branded, secure workspaces—embed custom AI Agents to automate onboarding, support, project tracking, compliance, and more. KEY USE CASES & OUTCOMES: - Sales & Deal Rooms: Accelerate deal cycles with AI-powered workspaces, proposal generation, and instant engagement analytics. - Client & Partner Workspaces: Deliver 24/7 support, automate onboarding, and centralize resources. - Internal Collaboration: Secure workspaces and always-available departmental AI assistants. Spin up AI Agents for Sales, Support, HR, or Finance in under a minute—deploy them inside workspaces, your browser, or via workflow automations.

13 Ratings

Starting Price: $32

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Notezilla

Conceptworld Corporation

Notezilla is a sticky notes app for Windows & Phones designed to keep you well-equipped & well-organized. It lets you take quick notes on sticky notes (that look like 3M Post-It® Notes), right on your Windows desktop & gives you the best sticky notes experience. With the optional cloud synchronization feature, you can sync sticky notes between computers, access them from any smartphone using our free apps for iPhone/iPad, Android, etc or send sticky notes to any contact across the globe. Notezilla is a professionally designed, simple & elegant sticky notes software. Over the last 15 years, it has gained an excellent reputation (read customer reviews) from all over the world.

5 Ratings

Starting Price: $29.95/year/user

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Outline

Gorillized Corporation

Outline is the ultimate productivity-boosting note-taking app for your Mac, iPad and iPhone. It allows you to effortlessly capture, organize, and sync your notes across devices. With 100% compatibility with OneNote, you can import and export seamlessly. Annotate PDFs, add images, and stay organized with folders and tags. Whether you prefer cloud storage or local storage, Outline offers flexible options. Upgrade your note-taking skills and gain full control over your digital workspace with this powerful app!

4 Ratings

Starting Price: $4.99

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MeisterNote

Meister

Write here. Write Now. MeisterNote is a beautiful, intuitive documentation software that helps teams write and organize written information collaboratively. Use MeisterNote’s impressive content creation and editing capabilities, alongside intuitive collaborative functionality, to revolutionize online documentation and improve the way your team processes information. This beautiful documentation tool is the perfect solution for team knowledge bases, meeting management, internal communication, project documentation and much, much more. Use file embeds to integrate your existing documentation sleekly into MeisterNote, and choose from over 15 content block styles to help your notes stand out from the crowd! Part of the Meister Suite, MeisterNote uses clever integrations with MindMeister, an online mind mapping tool and MeisterTask, an online task management software, to ensure flawless workflows and keep your team working together.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $5.99

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NotePlan

Your tasks, notes, and calendar all linked in one place. Use the flexibility of Markdown to quickly create tasks. Add options for repeating to-dos, easily move tasks into the future, and add tags and mentions. Speed up your workflow with natural language input and autocompletion of tags, mentions, and links. Meeting minutes, reference material, or quick notes: store everything in NotePlan. Organize your notes any way you like. From simple folders or a digital Bullet Journal to a fully linked Zettelkasten system. All stored locally and available on every device. A note for each day keeps you in control of your schedule, today and tomorrow. Outline your tasks, write down and link your notes, even block time right in your calendar. See exactly what’s on your calendar, plan ahead, or look back. Everything you put into NotePlan is stored in plaintext Markdown files, easily opened in any text editor. That means you’re never locked in and always in control of your files.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $6.99 per month

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Transkriptor

Automatically transcribe audio, and turn your audio or video to text. Upload your file and convert your audio to text with Transkriptor. Transkriptor’s powerful artificial intelligence generates online transcriptions within few minutes. Transkriptor is used by many professionals or students. Transkriptor is the best assistant for interview transcription, lecture transcription and video transcription. Transkriptor creates editable TXT, word or SRT files. You can download your transcriptions within seconds or you can use Transkriptor’s online editor for easy and quick editing. Sign up today and be more productive in school, work, and life. Even though Transkriptor is one of the most powerful artificial intelligence solutions, it is extremely easy to use. Transkriptor is an online speech-to-text converter and no installation required. Simply upload your file and start.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $9.99 per month

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Bear

Shiny Frog

Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose. Bear works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can write wherever inspiration strikes. Use todos to stay on task across every device. Link notes to each other to build a body of work. Add hashtags to organize the way you think. Use Face/Touch ID to protect sensitive notes. Bear is perfect for everything from quick notes to in-depth essays. A focus mode helps you concentrate, and advanced markup options are an online writer's best friend. Full in-line image support brings your writing to life.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $1.49 per month

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Boost Note

Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams. Built to empower developers productivity with the most solid note taking experience for developers. Not just a GitHub flavored markdown. Put diagrams with Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML in documents to maximize visibility. Choose from keymaps like Vim, over 150 themes, and more to create your own Markdown editor. Manage your documents programmatically. Grab an authentication token and access Boost Note's APIs via simple HTTP requests. Automate your documentation work with over 2,000 external tool integrations via Zapier. Collaborate with your colleagues and share information your way. Have all your teams in one shared workspace. Write documents as a team with Boost Note's realtime editing. Check revision history of a doc. You can easily roll back to one of the previous versions in one click. Keep your important data safe through granula access control based on workspace.

Starting Price: $3 per member per month

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Pear Note

Useful Fruit

Record everything. By integrating traditional text notes with audio, video, and slides, Pear Note ensures that you never miss a thing. Pear Note can jump straight to the point in the recording where you typed that note, so you can listen to what was going on at the time and use the recording to interpret your notes. Pear Note lets you navigate to the end of the notes you did take, so you can listen to or watch what was going on when you zoned out and fill in the gaps. Pear Note records audio, video, and what you do, including typing notes and changing slides, on a timeline. Since keystrokes and slide changes are kept on this timeline, you can easily find what was being said during typing or a particular slide. Pear Note supports Auto Save and Versions when running on Mac OS X Lion or later, which means you never have to worry about saving or losing data again. If you find that you lost something, easily browse through history to find what's missing.

Starting Price: $39.99 one-time payment

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Tetra

Tetra dials into your calls and automatically takes notes for you, so you can focus on the conversation now and remember everything later. Simply invite bot@asktetra.com to an upcoming call on your calendar and we'll dial you just before it starts. Or, create a call whenever in our web app. Accept and merge Tetra's call as soon as your meeting starts. We'll start transcribing right away. Read, listen to, and search your notes in our web app once Tetra is done transcribing. Share with your team and export to your favorite productivity tool. Type any phrase or concept you remember talking about, and we'll jump you right back into the conversation. Keep your team in sync by sending a link to your notes to team members who didn't participate in the call. Export your notes to Evernote, Dropbox Paper, Slack, Email, and Google Docs, or email us and we'll add your favorite tool. Unlike other transcription services, we'll get you your notes by the end of the day or the call's on us.

Starting Price: $100 per month

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Sonocent Audio Notetaker

Sonocent

Sonocent Audio Notetaker is a note taking software designed to be used by anyone. We're helping our customers get the most out of audio note taking. Capture audio, text and slides in a single note-taking workspace. Organize and categorize note sets so you can easily return to them. Turn your notes into a variety of formats to suit your learning style. Improve audio quality and extract only what's useful. Enrich notes with drawings, scribbles and photos, perfect for graphs, equations and diagrams. Upload your notes to the software to review and then engage with the new information. Gain access to an intuitive admin portal when you purchase an institutional plan. This makes implementing Sonocent and managing your users a breeze. For 14 years, Sonocent Audio Notetaker has helped students get more out of their lectures and classes. Glean is the next generation of audio note taking software.

Starting Price: $156 per year

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Tinderbox

Eastgate

Tinderbox helps you visualize, analyze, and share your ideas. Download and try it. Taggers help your agents keep everything organized. Highlighters scan for key names and phrases. A gallery of saved views, more AI, smarter actions, and lots more! Whether you’re plotting your next thriller or writing your dissertation, designing a course, managing a legal practice, coordinating a campaign or planning a season of orchestral concerts, Tinderbox 9 will be your personal information assistant. Tinderbox is a workbench for your ideas and plans, ands ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them today, and it will adapt to your changing needs and growing knowledge. Your Tinderbox documents can help organize themselves, keeping your data clean. We believe in information gardening, as your understanding grows, Tinderbox grows with you. Tinderbox maps your notes as you make them. Tinderbox gives you maps, timelines, charts, outlines, and more.

Starting Price: $83 per year

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Airstory

Keep a project-based and running library of your research and notes. Use a kanban board to organize your notes into sections. Export each section to its own document. Turn your research into writing by dropping notes into a document or outline. All great writing begins with inspiration. The writing process, however, begins with an unyielding blank page. You could keep battling it. Or you could organize your research snippets on it. So you fill the page with your ideas, data and inspiration. And write a world-class piece that's supported by cited research. Save cards to a specific project and your whole library. Click the checkmark on a card to merge it into your doc. Add new tabs to your doc (like you can do in spreadsheets) to create multiple sections of a document in an organized way.

Starting Price: $25 per month

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Inkdrop

Organizing your Markdown notes made simple. With 100+ plugins, cross-platform and encrypted data sync support. Get a low-friction personal note-taking workflow and accomplish more. With your notes well-organized effortlessly, you can stay focused on doing your best work. It comes with multi-language code highlighting, multi-cursors, line numbers, scrolling beyond the last line, showing invisible characters and more. An intuitive and clean user interface and 'Distraction free mode' don't distract you from the text. With nestable notebooks, pin-to-top, tags and workspace view, it allows you to flexibly organize your notes. Track your work progress with note status and task progress view in the note list. Your notes can be shared on the web with a public link. It also supports exporting as HTML, PDF and Markdown file format. Whenever, even while in offline, you can read and write notes.

Starting Price: $4.16 per month

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MWeb

Make by native macOS technology, the pursuit of the perfect combination with the system. In principle, the first is to pursue a simple interface and high performance, and then it is powerful, easy to use, and full-featured. Use Github Flavored Markdown syntax (GFM). Supports Table, TOC, LaTeX, Fenced code block, Task lists, Footnote, etc. The Markdown graphics supports mermaid, viz, echarts, plantuml, sequence, flow. Exporting as Image, HTML, Epub, PDF, RTF, Docx. Publishing to Wordrpess, Metaweblog API, Wordpress.com, Evernote, Blogger, Medium, Tumblr. Support screenshots and paste, copy and paste, drag and drop Insert images and display them directly in the editor. Support for setting the image width when compatible with Markdown syntax. A powerful document library supports category trees and tag management documents. Documents can be categorized into multiple categories. You can export a category to Epub, PDF, and generate static websites.

Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment

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Daybook

The next-generation Journal safeguards your memories and helps you to reflect upon past experiences, and analyze and improve yourself. Beautifully designed to be easy to use and sync across multiple devices. Create, read out and search journal entries through Alexa, Google Assistant, and Bixby. Daybook is a free, passcode-protected personal diary, journal, and notes app for IOS. Daybook helps to record activities, experiences, thoughts, and ideas throughout the day. It lets you organize your created diary/journal entries or notes from the past in the easiest way. Daybook enables you to write a private diary, memoir, journal, and notes in the most natural way and record memories in an organized manner. Supports guided journal for tracking mood and activities, Mental Health Journal for managing stress and anxiety, Gratitude journal, self-improvement, and more. Gather insights using a mood analyzer from your activity log & mood log.

Starting Price: $29.99 one-time payment

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Reflect

Reflect is a note-taking app that helps you think better by mirroring the way your brain works. It prioritizes frictionless thought capture and recall, and encrypts your notes to make them secure. Reflect syncs all of your notes in real-time across your devices, and allows you to capture snippets from your browser or Kindle. It also connects to all of your calendars so that you never miss a meeting or agenda again. Think of the convenience of Apple Notes with 100x the power.

Starting Price: $10/month

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NoteDex

NoteDex creates high quality previews of each card so that you don't have search through tons of information when trying find the one needed! Card Stacks make it easy to capture and organize your notes into different projects or classes. With Best-in-Class features like pen, text and image editing you can make and print high quality 3 x 5 format index cards look better than ever before. Change colors of a note card with just one click for more engaging cards that stand out. Introducing NoteDex, the ultimate mobile app for all your note-taking and organization needs. With a powerful set of features, NoteDex is the perfect solution for anyone who wants to streamline their note-taking process and be more productive. Whether you're a visual thinker, student, writer, project manager, or just someone who wants to keep their ideas organized, NoteDex has everything you need to get the job done.

Starting Price: $2.99 per month

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SNote

SNote is the privacy focused workspace designed for exceptional productivity and collaboration. Privacy without Compromises State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption keeps your notes and files secure. We can't read your notes or access to your files, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode - it’s just the way that SNote works. Every note, every file, every time. Collaborate Without Insecurity Privately collaborate with only the people you want on Projects, To-Dos, Tasks and Shared Files. All with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. All with a realtime end-to-end encryption. We call it eye-to-eye. Infinitely Configurable Data Smart, encrypted, and customizable data tables offer endless possibilities for efficient and secure work processes. Using data tables, you and your team can easily tailor tables to your specific needs while ensuring sensitive information remains protected.

Starting Price: $8

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Narafy

Whether you’re looking for a quick answer to a question that’s buried in your notes or want to find that one note but are struggling to think where you put it, Narafy helps you find what you're looking for. Automate your workflow, so you can focus on what matters. Stacks are a fresh way of working. By combining tags together, you can easily create different stacks of notes. Have multiple stacks on the go, create new combinations, and as your notes grow, grow your tags too. Get it straight from the source with Narafy’s web clipper. Your notes are stored on your device, making sure you always have access to your notes, even without an internet connection. Our data syncing instantly and securely syncs your notes to the cloud, making them available across your devices. We're also thoughtfully integrating AI capabilities in a targeted way based on each use case, rather than just layering AI on top of standard note-taking features.

Starting Price: $5 per month

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Brite

Your All-in-One Planner App: Tasks, Calendar, Habits & More for Effortless Productivity. Brite combines all essentials in one app. Plan, check, and streamline effortlessly. Swap app clutter for simple, organized brilliance with Brite! View your whole week. All tasks, projects, events, and docs in one spot. Ditch multiple calendar apps for seamless, stress-free planning. Quickly craft to-do's, manage tags, and prioritize with Brite. Smart alerts keep you on track. Manage projects using Brite: ideal for personal and work goals. Utilize our kanban board, collaboration tools, and real-time goal tracking. Craft notes and docs with Brite's intuitive editor. Share ideas on iPad using slash commands and collaboration tools. Manage schedules with Brite's calendar. Get daily to monthly views, set reminders, and sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple for seamless planning.

Starting Price: $3.29 per month

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Heptabase

Heptabase empowers you to visually make sense of your learning, research, and projects. To truly make sense of what you've learned, visualize your notes with whiteboards, sections, and mindmaps. Bring all your highlights, annotations, PDFs, journals, and research notes together to discover new insights. Manage complex projects with clarity and flexibility by using powerful tags and properties. And of course, full offline access with blazing-fast speed. Sync and access your notes across unlimited desktop devices, mobile devices, and web browsers. Access all notes and files without an internet connection. Search, load, and edit your notes with blazing-fast speed. Heptabase is a visual note-taking software specifically designed to help you learn and research complex topics, establishing a deep understanding of things you care about. The design of Heptabase focuses on helping you better "understand the topics you care about," rather than simply "taking more notes."

Starting Price: $8.99 per month

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Scribbl

Scribbl's AI meeting note taker captures your meetings and uses AI to ensure you never miss anything and can always get back to the most important moments quickly. You'll never take meeting notes the same again. Scribbl is your AI meeting assistant and will save you loads of time. With Scribbl you can automatically transcribe or record video on any call. Rest assured that Scribbl won't send a creepy bot to listen in on your meeting. Once the call ends your meeting notes will pop up in a new tab. Our meeting transcription AI is top in class. Once the call ends, our AI note taker will break down the meeting into a digestible set of topics that will allow you or your team to quickly get a grasp of what was being discussed. You'll never take notes the same way again. By combining your meeting's video, transcript, and AI, you'll be able to find any moment in your call with ease. Sharing with anyone inside or outside of your team is a breeze.

Starting Price: $20 per month

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Amplenote

Alloy.dev

Amplenote is a productivity app that combines note-taking, task management, and calendar planning in one platform. It helps individuals and teams capture ideas, organize them, and turn them into actionable plans. Users can take notes with rich formatting, tags, and backlinks to connect ideas like a personal wiki. Task management is built-in, with a unique Task Score system that prioritizes based on urgency and importance. The calendar view integrates with Google Calendar to keep everything in sync. Available on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, Amplenote works offline and offers end-to-end encryption for security. It’s ideal for students, professionals, and anyone looking to boost productivity.

Starting Price: $5.84/month/user

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MindNote

MindNote is a smart, streamlined AI-powered note-taking application that lets users write, dictate, comment on, and listen to their notes, all while organizing them with custom colors and groupings for clarity and retrieval. It offers features such as speech-to-text (so you can dictate ideas), text-to-voice (so you can listen back to your notes), and AI-powered editing tools to correct grammar, translate between languages, complete lists, generate tables and summaries, and more. Users can insert various media (images, videos, audio) into their notes, share them privately or publicly with editing capabilities, and organize content into folders, tags or custom groups. The app’s interface emphasizes simplicity and accessibility, designed for research, study, work or personal use. MindNote supports multi-format import (including written, voice, video-to-text and image-to-text input) and enables cloud-based storage and collaboration so notes are accessible across devices.

Starting Price: $9.99 per month

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Ulysses

The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export options make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds. Many writers praise the way Ulysses encourages immersion with the text, and testify how using it has considerably increased their productivity. Although it’s a fully-fledged writing tool, Ulysses manages to stay completely out of your way – and can therefore rival any distraction-free writing app. Ulysses’ unified library holds everything you’ll ever write, and is equipped for managing writing projects of all sizes and ambitions. Be it love letters, simple notes, daily blog posts or the Great American Novel – with Ulysses, your writing is in the best of hands. Thus, you can focus on getting the words down. On the sofa, at a coffee shop, or while waiting for the bus: Work wherever you are, and whenever inspiration hits.

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Best Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial

Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial as of December 2025

What are Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial?

Plottr

ShixxNOTE

Microsoft OneNote

Notion

FuseBase

Notezilla

Outline

MeisterNote

NotePlan

Transkriptor

Bear

Boost Note

Pear Note

Tetra

Sonocent Audio Notetaker

Tinderbox

Airstory

Inkdrop

MWeb

Daybook

Reflect

NoteDex

SNote

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Scribbl

Amplenote

MindNote

Ulysses

Best Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial

Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial as of December 2025

What are Note-Taking Apps with a Free Trial?

Plottr

ShixxNOTE

Microsoft OneNote

Notion

FuseBase

Notezilla

Outline

MeisterNote

NotePlan

Transkriptor

Bear

Boost Note

Pear Note

Tetra

Sonocent Audio Notetaker

Tinderbox

Airstory

Inkdrop

MWeb

Daybook

Reflect

NoteDex

SNote

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Scribbl

Amplenote

MindNote

Ulysses

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