Free, open source note-taking and to-do app. Imports Evernote ENEX notebooks and syncs with E2EE via Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
Joplin is an open source alternative to Evernote. Free, open source note-taking and to-do app. Imports Evernote ENEX notebooks and syncs with E2EE via Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, or OneDrive. AGPL-3.0-or-later licensed, 55.6k GitHub stars, hosted version available, self-host with Docker, no terminal required to start, and last released 2026-06-20.
Should you switch?
People leaving Evernote who want a free, offline-first open source note and to-do app. Import your ENEX notebooks (formatted content, attachments, and metadata are converted to Markdown), then sync across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS with end-to-end encryption via Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, or WebDAV.
You want a Notion-style collaborative block database or real-time rich editor. Joplin is an offline-first Markdown note-and-to-do app organized into notebooks and tags with full-text search, where notes live in a local SQLite database rather than in a relational or blocks-based knowledge base.
Importing Evernote ENEX converts formatted content to Markdown, which is lossy for complex Evernote layouts, and the Joplin Server (the self-hostable alternative to Joplin Cloud) is a separate optional component from the desktop and mobile apps. The Joplin name is a registered trademark of JOPLIN SAS and the logos and icons are not open source (copyright Laurent Cozic, all rights reserved).
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Community proof
"I have switched to joplin from evernote and I am using webdav on synology NAS to synchronize notes. It is open source and also self hosted and works on all platforms without problem. I also share notes with my wife. We use it for planning and shopping lists and it works really great. It has some basic conflict resolution which is usable for two people. Joplin uses sqlite as storage but you can export collection to md files and there is backup plugin which does that periodically. Also you can setup external editor. I am editing notes in neovim and joplin is just for viewing."
"I migrated to Joplin from Evernote. I can live with a slightly less polished UI. However the main issue is the time it takes to come up (launch) on my Windows 32GB RAM, Intel i7 laptop. It’s terribly slow to come up."
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Can you do it today?
docker run --env-file .env -p 22300:22300 joplin/server:latestGitHub
Download native installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux from joplinapp.org/download/ (mobile apps on Google Play and the App Store).
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