Best Note-Taking Apps in Canada

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!

338 Ratings

Starting Price: $15

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MinutesLink

MinutesLink is an advanced AI-powered note taker designed to make your virtual meetings more organized and productive by recording, transcribing, and generating human-accurate minutes for every call. It ensures you never miss a detail, even if you can't attend. Ideal for remote team collaboration, MinutesLink helps colleagues stay aligned, organize meetings efficiently, and boost productivity. Key Features: - Automated Meeting Attendance - Accurate Transcriptions - Instant Meeting Minutes - Unlimited Storage for all your meeting recordings. - Multilingual Support: Support for 50 languages - Concurrent Meeting Capture MinutesLink is perfect for: - Managers: Streamline your meeting processes and enhance team productivity. - HR and Recruiting Professionals: Keep accurate records of candidate interviews and team discussions. - Sales Managers: Track client meetings and sales calls with ease. - Consultants & Educators: Document client interactions and project meetings

1 Rating

Starting Price: $0

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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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Evernote

Your notes. Organized. Effortless. Take notes anywhere. Find information faster. Share ideas with anyone. Meeting notes, web pages, projects, to-do lists—with Evernote as your note taking app, nothing falls through the cracks. Manage everything from big projects to personal moments. Capture ideas and inspiration in notes, voice, and pictures. Never lose track of your tasks and deadlines. At work, at home, and everywhere in between. Evernote’s plans and pricing are designed to fit your needs. Plan, keep records, and manage projects from any device–even offline. Manage projects, deadlines, clients, and meetings with ease. Create your free account and choose the plan that fits your needs. Type notes, add attachments, clip web pages, or record memos. All in one place. Organize your notes, your way. Use notebooks, tags, or our powerful search to find everything you need quickly. Manage projects, take meeting notes, set reminders, and edit documents.

54 Ratings

Starting Price: $2.70 per user per month

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Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft

Microsoft OneNote is your digital notebook. Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. With easy navigation and search, you’ll always find your notes right where you left them. Revise your notes with type, highlighting, or ink annotations. With OneNote across all your devices, you’ll never miss a flash of inspiration. Great minds don’t always think alike, but they can share ideas and create together in OneNote. Sort content across notebooks, sections, and pages. Highlight can’t-miss notes with Important and To-Do tags. Draw your thoughts and annotate your notes, using a stylus or your finger. Record audio notes, insert online videos, and add files. Use the OneNote Web Clipper to save content with a single click. Share notebooks with coworkers, friends, and family. Teachers can use OneNote to organize lesson plans in searchable digital notebooks, and staff can create a sharable content library. Encourage students to handwrite notes and sketch diagrams.

32 Ratings

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Google Keep

Google

Capture, edit, share, and collaborate on your notes on any device, anywhere. Add notes, lists, photos, and audio to Keep. Organize your notes with labels and colors. Set and forget. Get reminded about a note at the right time or place. Record a voice memo and have it automatically transcribed. Grab the text from an image to help you quickly find that note again through search. Need to remember to pick up some groceries? Set a location-based reminder to pull up your grocery list right when you get to the store. Need to finish a to-do? Set a time-based reminder to make sure you never miss a thing. Next time you go to the store, share your shopping list on Keep and watch as items get checked off in real time. No need for text messages back and forth. Get things done together, faster.

26 Ratings

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Notion

Notion Labs

All-in-one workspace. Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Notion is light, fast, and distraction-free. The interface fades away the moment you start typing, leaving you alone with your work. Love keyboard shortcuts? You can access all of Notion's features from your fingertips, so you can stay in flow. Outline your ideas, then rearrange them in any order. Notion’s unique editor helps you structure your thoughts and daily plans. Comment on anything to start a discussion. Mention your coworkers when you need input. Get more done across timezones. Boost personal productivity. Write better. Think more clearly. Stay organized. Too many insights slip through Slack? Notion is your team's long term memory. Use the Slack integration to push updates to the rest of your teammates. Showcase designs from Figma? Review financial projections from Google Sheets? Notion embeds them all and 50 other apps. It’s the hub for all your team's knowledge.

22 Ratings

Starting Price: $4 per user per month

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Zoho Notebook

Zoho

The most beautiful note taking app across devices. Different types of notes should be treated differently. Each Note Card type is designed to complement the type of note you're taking. Jot, list, record, sketch, and snap what you need to remember with Text Card. Safely and securely share your notes with friends and co-workers. Share notes and collaborate securely with the people you trust—and only them. This is the Notebook you'll never lose because it syncs to the cloud and across your devices. It's always backed-up and always up to date. We don't sell your info. We don't do ads. Our business model ensures our ability to act in your best interest while storing and securing your data.

14 Ratings

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Apple Notes

Apple

Notes is the best place to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. And with iCloud, it’s easy to keep all your devices in sync, so you’ll always have your notes with you.

14 Ratings

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FuseBase

FuseBase (formerly Nimbus)

In FuseBase, you can communicate and collaborate with your team and clients. Create your Organization and invite them to your team. Work on your projects creating super docs with wide integration options. Add and manage tasks for your team, comment on them and chat right into your workspaces. Empower yourself or your team to get things done faster with fewer iterations and meetings. Nimbus Business will give you more opportunities for increasing your brand awareness. Experience the incredible potential of AI to improve your workflow! Discover the unbelievable power of Nimbus AI and evolve the way you manage your time. Easily create content from scratch, enhance and improve existing content, and get personalized recommendations. Benefit from an AI assistant that is always in your work hub.

13 Ratings

Starting Price: $99

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Notability

Ginger Labs

Combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring your projects to life. Use a wide range of note-taking and sketching tools to capture every detail. You can even add and annotate PDFs in Notability. It’s the perfect place to create and organize work, school, and life's information! Experiment with different tools to create beautiful, hand-crafted notes and sketches. Continue to scale, rotate, and recolor your ideas and sketches until your notes are just how you want them. Once you're done, organize your notes with ease so you always know where to find what matters most. Zoom in on the specifics, or explore the big picture by combining sketches, outlines, and type. Now you are ready to share your notes with colleagues or study partners through Google Drive, AirDrop, Email and Dropbox.

6 Ratings

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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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Obsidian

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following "connections" is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph. Note-taking is incredibly personal. Tried every app, but there's always something not quite right? You deserve better. Obsidian is built to be extensible. With 22 core plugins and 149 community plugins, set up your own toolkit and get running in minutes. You'll even be able to install third party plugins or build your own once Obsidian reaches v1.0. Sky's the limit. In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in. With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $25 one-time payment

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Logseq

Logseq is a joyful, open-source outliner that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden. Connect your ideas and thoughts with Logseq. Your knowledge graph grows just as your brain generates and connects neurons from new knowledge and ideas. Organize your tasks and projects with built-in workflow commands like now/later/done, a/b/c priorities and repeated scheduled/deadlines. Moreover, Logseq comes with powerful query system to help you get insights and build your own workflow.

2 Ratings

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GoodNotes

Time Base Technology

Take beautiful, searchable handwritten notes and effortlessly organize all your documents & notebooks in a single place. Always find what you wrote. Thanks to powerful OCR technology, everything in GoodNotes is searchable. Find handwritten notes, PDF text, document & folder titles, typed text, and outlines. Write and sketch with your finger or a stylus on digital paper & imported documents. You can add images, typed text and perfect shapes to the page and reorder and resize them as you wish. GoodNotes lets you escape the limits of real paper. GoodNotes is a single place for all your documents. Quickly import PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files to annotate them or create a new blank notebook to take notes. Organize and manage them with ease. No document will ever be lost again. Write down ideas on the go and annotate photos. You will always have your notes with you on all of your devices thanks to iCloud sync. Endless sheets of paper in your pocket.

2 Ratings

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mymind

Your new mind analyzes images, articles and websites, tagging it for you automatically so you can easily find it later. You can save images, links, notes, videos, quotes, PDFs, articles - anything you want to remember. From the web, your computer or your phone. And remember, it's all private. Nobody will see what's on your mind. mymind is for your eyes only. It’s your mental sigh of relief. We go the extra mile to protect the privacy and integrity of your mind. Our company is independently run by a passionate team. We have no investors or stakeholders to distract our vision. The only people we report to are you. Compared to most companies, we don’t track your activity and we don’t use intrusive ads. Your mind should be a place you can trust. 85% of notes we capture are less than 140 characters long. They’re quick ideas and reminders, often written on the go. This makes large documents, folders or categories useless.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Dynalist

The best outlining app for your best work. Where brilliant ideas are captured, fleshed out, and realized. Dynalist is featureful yet simple. Without bloating the interface, tools show up only when you need them. See for yourself in the demo; all panes can be closed for focusing on outlining and organizing. So don't let the features scare you! They are all here to help you do your best work.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $7.99 per month

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Notejoy

Monki Labs

Whether you are collaborating in real-time or across time zones, Notejoy always makes your colleagues feel like they are right there with you. Leverage Notejoy's blazingly fast quick find and powerful search to find exactly what you are looking for. Flexible workspaces for your clients and projects. Flexible team libraries allow you to set up workspaces for internal teams, external client teams, and any combination of team members. Collaborate in real-time so there's one conversation and one version. Team libraries of any size or mix, by company, project, external clients, and more. Manage permissions on who can view, comment and edit. Content digests help you stay on top of what's popular and being worked on. Share and edit content with your team in real-time, so everyone stays up-to-date. Share files, link resources, and have discussions to keep projects moving.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $4 per user per month

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Mem

Mem.ai

Capture and access information from anywhere. Lightning fast capture. Always-on search. Seamless collaboration. As simple as Apple Notes — powered by a collaborative graph database. Bring anything into Mem with one keypress, type to create a new mem, and SMS on the go. Add lightweight organization as you type. Throw away rigid hierarchies for fluid information flow. Share anything using the @ sign and start editing together live. Turn individual learnings into collective intelligence. The most relevant information at your fingertips, even when you’re not using the Mem app. Something to read later? Add it to your Inbox. Snooze notifications until tomorrow morning or for 27 minutes. Go 0 to 60 in an instant. Free your headspace. Find anything with one keypress. Mem it — then forget it. Share and create knowledge. Say goodbye to folders.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $10 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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Napkin

Napkin turns your text into visuals so sharing your ideas is quick and effective. Forget prompting, Napkin works directly from your text. Napkin generates the most relevant visuals based on your text, then you pick the one that best expresses what you have in mind. Napkin visuals are fully editable, so you can adjust content and style to maximize their impact. Add or swap icons from our extensive database. Emphasize style, they’re smart & versatile. Dynamic connectors that can connect anything. Colors that always look good in light or dark mode. Visuals created in Napkin can be used anywhere. Captivate your audience with auto-generated infographics, diagrams, flowcharts, and more. Napkin helps you transform your existing text content into visuals like diagrams, charts, scenes, and images. Think of it as having a personal visual expert right at your fingertips, ready to bring your ideas to life.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Milanote

Simple text editing and task management make it easy to add your thoughts to a board. Milanote supports all common file types including JPGs, PDFs, Word, Excel, common design files and many more. Anything you save in the Milanote app will be ready to organize as soon as you're back at your computer. Add text notes, photos from your camera and links from your browser—then organize them into beautiful visual boards. Milanote's mobile apps for iPhone and Android are fully native and designed for speed. Photos you take in the Milanote app are automatically synced to the cloud and available as soon as you're back at your computer. Keep your workflow organized with simple to-do lists. Tasks sync instantly across all of your devices so things stay on track wherever you are. The Milanote app integrates with your web browser, which means that you can instantly send any website, video or image that you're viewing to your boards.

1 Rating

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Write! App

Write! is an elegant workspace to create notes, to-do lists, writing projects and texts of any kind. It has all features of a good word processor packed into a clutter-free interface. Writing tools like configurable autocomplete, intelligent spellchecker, unlimited Ctrl Z and productivity counters will improve your productivity. Your work will flow smoothly with the help of minimalist writing interface. Your documents will never ever be lost again. You can use Write! on any computer and continue writing from the point you left. You can store unlimited number of documents at no additional cost. Easily manage any writing project structuring it in tabs, Sessions and folders. Switching between writing sessions changes the group of tabs you are working on, allowing you to quickly change the context. Publish documents to the web with a unique URL and share a link to it via email or to social media. When you make changes to a shared document, they are immediately updated online.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $24.95

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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported. The notes can be synchronized with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or the file system (for example with a network directory). When synchronising the notes, notebooks, tags and other metadata are saved to plain text files which can be easily inspected, backed up and moved around. The application is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.

1 Rating

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DEVONthink

DEVONtechnologies

Focus on your work and let DEVONthink remember all the details. Collect, organize, edit and annotate documents of any kind. Have them automatically analyzed, connected, and filed. Sync them between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. DEVONthink keeps all your documents in easy-to-backup databases and presents them to you in a variety of ways. Many documents can be viewed and edited without opening them in another application. Read web pages as if they were local documents. DEVONthink Pro scans paper documents and makes them searchable, imports email, and even downloads complete web sites. Don’t fight the information flood alone. Let DEVONthink for Mac categorize documents based on how you filed similar documents before. Add smart rules to file documents, rename them, or process them in other ways automatically. Later retrieve the data you need using DEVONthink’s fast and flexible search. Find similar documents with keywords extracted from the document.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $99 one-time payment

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Nebo

Turn handwritten notes into professional documents with the world's best write-to-text conversion. Add PDFs to your notebooks, mark them up and export to PDF with your annotations in place. Write and draw freely on an infinite canvas, then copy content for reuse on other pages or in other apps. From boardroom to lecture hall, project plan to daily diary, Nebo makes note-taking smarter, more efficient and more enjoyable. Take your notes with you everywhere. Download the new companion app for iPhone to read, search and share content on the go. Download and enjoy Nebo on Apple silicon devices! Available free from the iPhone and iPad apps section of the App Store. You can now add highlights to titles as well as colored, bold and underlined text. Touch and hold with the marker to change the color of highlights, words, strokes, diagram shapes and math symbols.

1 Rating

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Traverse

Traverse is a visual learning tool that combines note-taking with mind mapping and spaced repetition flashcards. Deeply grasp topics and remember for life with our learning method based on cognitive science. WHY CHOOSE TRAVERSE? Traverse is build the way humans learn. It covers the full learning cycle, where other tools only capture a part. From initial idea, to AHA moment, to a crystal clear and unforgettable mental image. • See the big picture by visually mapping out your notes • Use color coding, links and grouping to master the hardest subjects • Perfect recall with our spaced repetition algorithm that helps you revise at the optimal time • Dive deeper, add and connect all of your learning content and resources - whether text, PDF, audio, images, videos, code blocks or Latex math formulas • Quickly create flashcards from anything by just selecting it and creating a cloze (fill-in-the-blank)

1 Rating

Starting Price: $9/month/user

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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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Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps in Canada as of January 2025

What are Note-Taking Apps in Canada?

Plottr

MinutesLink

ShixxNOTE

Evernote

Microsoft OneNote

Google Keep

Notion

Zoho Notebook

Apple Notes

FuseBase

Notability

Notezilla

Outline

MeisterNote

Obsidian

Logseq

GoodNotes

mymind

Dynalist

Notejoy

Mem

Transkriptor

Napkin

Milanote

Write! App

Joplin

DEVONthink

Nebo

Traverse

Bear