Foam Alternatives

Foam is described as 'Personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub' and is a popular Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Foam for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Android apps. The best Foam alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like Foam are Zettlr, Zim, Google Docs and AFFiNE.

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  1. The Guide icon
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    The Guide is a two-pane outliner - a program that allows you to arrange text notes in a tree-like structure. It supports formatted text, exporting to RTF and hyperlinks (both internal and external).

    301 The Guide alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. Free open source software combining the best of wiki and CMS with community building-features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
     
  3. ruff is your pocket-sized best friend that aims to make writing on the go fun and sharing it fast & easy. It's a single sheet of text with your progress automatically saved and restored between sessions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
     
  4. Idea Notebook icon
     8 likes

    Never forget another brilliant idea. Log, organize and track your ideas and more with the Idea Notebook.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. Boardist icon
     11 likes

    Perfect personal productivity tool 🙀 Never lose your data again and store your notes, links, files, and a lot more. The whole infrastructure is designed to help an advanced user to be in a good shape with data.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Tadaa is the new dynamic workflow for Product Teams making project development easy to build, view and deep dive. Teams suffer from the traditional isolated information flow on multiple softwares. So we’re moving to a visible continuous flow on one platform where you can follow...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. iObeya icon
     1 like

    As simple to use as the sticky notes, laminated cards, T-cards, magnets, stickers and pens used in your meeting rituals today.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Write with your team, in realtime, using markdown with Canvas. Canvas is the best way to take meeting notes, work on product features, or keep track of those personal notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Writty icon
     1 like

    Takes notes, write your next article or book. Save as MD or HTML file and open it again. With Writty you also can export in PDF and Plain text. Includes the basic functionalities of any text editor + Dark Mode, a sleek design and RTL support.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  10. Roughbook icon
     3 likes

    RoughBook is an online note-taking chrome extension. It is a productivity tool that helps in quickly capturing important information and set reminders. A productivity tool to quickly capture, organize and share important notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. IdeaLog icon
     1 like

    With IdeaLog, you can easily capture and organize all of your ideas in one place. Add tags to quickly find related ideas, create folders to keep things organized, and add notes to elaborate on your ideas.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  12. Unit icon
     2 likes

    Unit is a modern note-taking app that provides a completely new experience of creating, organizing and managing all your notes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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