Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Goodnotes
The 20 closest note-taking software alternatives to Goodnotes, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 17 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Goodnotes? The closest matches are Notion, Evernote and Obsidian. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About Goodnotes
Goodnotes goodnotes.com
Goodnotes | Notes Reimagined | Note-Taking App
Bring your thinking to life, collaborate in real time, and turn brainstorming into action with shared notes, whiteboards and text documents.
Wikidata: note-taking application developed by GoodNotes Limited
Summary by Claude
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking app built around handwriting on tablets. It also supports typed notes, PDF annotation, whiteboards, audio capture, real-time collaboration, AI features, and syncing across devices.
- Who it’s for
- Students and professionals using tablets, and business teams
- Business model
- Subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Goodnotes’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Goodnotes
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Goodnotes, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.
Very close cos 0.899 - 02
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Close cos 0.880 - 03
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Close cos 0.883 - 04
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Close cos 0.869 - 05
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.864 - 06
Genius
American digital media company
Close cos 0.863 - 07
Granola — The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetings
The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.
Close cos 0.859 - 08
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Close cos 0.864 - 09
Grammarly: Free AI Writing Assistance
Grammarly makes AI writing convenient. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance and text generation on any app or website.
Close cos 0.856 - 10
Bidease
Market and monetize your mobile apps with best-in-class, AI-driven programmatic solutions with Bidease.
Close cos 0.857 - 11
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Close cos 0.861 - 12
Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors
Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.
Close cos 0.859 - 13
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.859 - 14
The Execution Hub for Enterprise Work | Smartsheet
Smartsheet is the Execution Hub where people and AI get work done together, with the governance and visibility enterprises need.
Close cos 0.855 - 15
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.856 - 16
Publisher Ad Tech Platform — Control Your Programmatic Stack | Aditude
One platform. Complete control. Aditude unifies ad serving, intelligence, and demand for enterprise publishers ready to maximize revenue at scale.
Close cos 0.856 - 17
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American technology news and analysis website
Close cos 0.856 - 18
Smallpdf - A Free Solution to all your PDF Problems
Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, free.
Close cos 0.856 - 19
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.859 - 20
Flurry | Mobile App Analytics Platform for Android & iOS
Flurry is a mobile app analytics platform for Android & iOS that empowers product, development and growth experts to build better apps that users love.
Close cos 0.854
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to goodnotes.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Goodnotes uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Goodnotes is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:26…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=4FCD874F901D07AFD4073457508845B43B9A99939C227D916…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: dwnR7wknK0deW1v9yQbzphhksMUfyBZs2g1vTebG-i7LJ-BeSGC8Gw==
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56324332836ff10-FRA
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@flowbase-co/boosters-countup@1.0.0/dist/countup.min.js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms66944371
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:26…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-99.awsdns-12.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=PF3Vd2yC2LsCsm9g
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ExaNhMsCUGORyQuXobk50p6tcqauxHbFzzZckB4…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=dLfUKB-8Fr08SpD0Byaspeb1DAb8cEO_T-zWnhYz8Vc
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=5pxFPT7CUlILZFEd96Y0zgXjGyJVF2M05q1Hd3q80YE
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=ANCp1g51JGm79Vn6I2v9iroxq6quSNKB5aP5kph2
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Goodnotes adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on goodnotes.com 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on goodnotes.com 7/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Fastly · not on goodnotes.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- OpenAI · not on goodnotes.com 5/20
- Stripe 5/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- DocuSign · not on goodnotes.com 4/20
- Next.js · not on goodnotes.com 4/20