What is RunaBook?
RunaBook is an open-source, cross-platform note-taking and organization app designed as an alternative to proprietary apps like Microsoft OneNote or Evernote. Like OneNote, RunaBook allows users to create digital notebooks to take notes, save web pages and documents, draw sketches, record audio, and more.
Some key features of RunaBook include:
- Open-source codebase with an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the software
- Cross-platform support for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and as a web app
- WYSISYG editor for formatting notes with headings, lists, tables, etc.
- Insert images, videos, files, and screenshots into notes
- Draw sketches with a range of brush and shape tools
- Record audio notes which sync with text notes
- Save web page clips and annotate them
- Share notebooks publicly or with specified collaborators
- End-to-end encryption for secure syncing across devices
- On-device encryption for enhanced privacy
- Plenty of import/export options and integrations with open-source tools
With its privacy-focused model, open ecosystem, and cross-platform support, RunaBook presents itself as an ethical alternative to closed-source commercial note apps. The project is backed by nonprofit organizations and receives funding from user donations, aiming to provide a fully free notetaking platform to knowledge workers across the globe.
Notion, CherryTree, Dynalist, TagSpaces, Taskade, Trilium Notes, UpNote, Dendron, KeyNote NF, FSNotes, MyInfo, Cryptee, Passfindr are some alternatives to RunaBook.