Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Notion
The 20 closest productivity and collaboration software alternatives to Notion, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Notion? The closest matches are Goodnotes, Evernote and Todoist. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 7 ms
01 · Entity
About Notion
Notion notion.so
Wikidata: collaboration software company
Summary by Claude
Notion is a workspace application for writing notes and documents, building wikis and databases, and managing projects and tasks, either alone or in teams.
- Who it’s for
- Individuals, teams and businesses
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Notion’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 Notion
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Notion, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read notion.so’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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.
Very close cos 0.901 - 02
Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote
Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!
Very close cos 0.899 - 03
Todoist | A To-Do List to Organize Your Work & Life
Trusted by 30 million people and teams. Todoist is the world's favorite task manager and to-do list app. Finally become focused, organized and calm.
Close cos 0.883 - 04
ClickUp™ | Maximize productivity • Software, AI, and humans converge
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
Close cos 0.883 - 05
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Close cos 0.883 - 06
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Close cos 0.879 - 07
Figma: The collaborative canvas for design, code, and AI
Figma is the canvas where design, code, and AI come together. From first idea to shipped product — go from concept to production with your whole team, in one place.
Close cos 0.880 - 08
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 0.876 - 09
The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
Close cos 0.877 - 10
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.875 - 11
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Close cos 0.877 - 12
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Close cos 0.877 - 13
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.875 - 14
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Close cos 0.875 - 15
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.874 - 16
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Close cos 0.875 - 17
Genius
American digital media company
Close cos 0.872 - 18
note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
Close cos 0.874 - 19
product discovery website
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to notion.so’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Notion uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Notion is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS woz.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=U2r6h9FWkKMadZDxW94daNJ1YUGXP-9_tJ7PUYfYz4c
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=2agf76ffad9vxlxya597jrzil7xoxf
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Notion adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on notion.so 13/20
- Apple Business · not on notion.so 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on notion.so 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on notion.so 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on notion.so 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on notion.so 8/20
- Stripe · not on notion.so 8/20
- Zendesk · not on notion.so 8/20
- Atlassian · not on notion.so 6/20
- Adobe · not on notion.so 6/20
- DocuSign · not on notion.so 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Next.js · not on notion.so 5/20
- React · not on notion.so 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on notion.so 5/20