Dynalist is an outlining app for capturing ideas and developing them into plans, projects, brainstorms or notes.
Alternatives to Tana
outl is a local-first outliner and bullet-point note-taking app that saves notes as plain Markdown files on disk.
Workflowy is a note-taking app organized as one expandable document of nested lists.
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Cloud Outliner
Cloud Outliner creates interactive, customizable notes for arranging plans, projects, and ideas.
Free planiOSmacOS7.7$4.99 one-time - 5

Logseq
Logseq is a free, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration, with tools for notes, task management, and PDF annotation.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.7From $5 a month - 6

Legend
Legend brings documents, notes, to-do lists, email, files, outlines, and projects into one productivity interface.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.5From $5 a month - 7

Checkvist
Checkvist is a keyboard-first outliner and online task manager for people who organize work and ideas in lists.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.4From $3.90 a month - 8

Indenta
Indenta is a free outliner note app for making structured notes with Markdown, backlinks, tags, and tasks.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.3Free plan - 9
Roam Research
Roam Research is a paid note-taking tool built for networked thought.
AndroidiOSWebExtension7.3From $15 a month - 10
Gingko Writer
Gingko Writer is tree-based software for organizing and drafting complex documents.
WebLinuxmacOSWindows6.9From $117 a year - 11

Bike Outliner
Bike Outliner is a Mac app for thinking, writing, and organizing outlines, lists, notes, and documents.
Free planmacOS6.7From $19.99 a year - 12
Cloud Outliner
Cloud Outliner is a freemium outlining app for organizing plans, projects, ideas, and tasks on macOS and iOS.
Free planiOSmacOS6.7$2.99 one-time - 13

Tine
Tine is a free, local outliner that reads and writes Markdown files in the same on-disk format as Logseq.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux6.7Free plan - 14

OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner organizes information into outlines so ideas and concepts can be clarified and developed.
iOSmacOS6.5From $49.99 a year - 15
CrossLine
CrossLine is a free, open-source outliner that links topics and supports transclusion.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 16
Org mode
Org mode is a structured text format and GNU Emacs mode for work that can span notes, task planning, time tracking, code, and publishing.
AndroidiOSWebLinux6.4 - 17

AI Outliner
LinuxmacOSWindows6.3From $4.99 a month - 18
Kosshi Outliner
iOSmacOS6.3$24.99 one-time - 19
Leo Editor
Leo Editor is a programmable editor, outliner and knowledge base for organizing code, writing and research in a flexible outline.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.3Free plan - 20
TreeLine
TreeLine is an offline information organizer for keeping structured material in a tree.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.3Free plan - 21
Zavala
Zavala is a free, open-source outliner for organizing information in related hierarchical rows.
Free planiOSmacOS6.3Free plan - 22
Kindling
Kindling is a desktop writing app for fiction writers who want to plan and draft with their outline in view.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.2Free plan - 23
MemPad
MemPad is a free Windows program for plain-text outlining and note-taking with a structured index.
Free planWindows6.1Free plan - 24
Fractal Note
Fractal Note is a note-taking environment inside VS Code that combines a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with outliner, database, mindmap, and file-manager views.
Free planExtensionLinuxmacOSWindows6.0Free plan - 25

Dashword
Dashword is a free outliner for structuring thoughts, planning projects, and developing concepts.
Free planmacOSWindows5.9Free plan - 26
FocusNote
FocusNote is a local-first, keyboard-focused outliner for macOS, aimed at deep thinkers, writers, and organizers.
Free planmacOS5.8Free plan - 27
Drummer
WebmacOS5.7 - 285.7Free plan
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Outliner
Web5.5 - 30
Oxinot
Oxinot is a free, open-source Markdown note-taking app for organizing notes in an outline.
LinuxmacOSWindows5.4


