If you mostly use OneNote for notes, lists and images, a lean notes app is enough. It works offline and syncs through your own instance.
Anchor instead of Apple Notes
Quick notes, checklists, images and voice memos, even without a connection. In a notes app that runs in the browser on any device and keeps its data in your own instance.
about €3.70 / month All the pricing details
What you get out of it
Notes go in and out as Markdown
Every note has a history that brings earlier versions back
In the browser on any device, plus an app for Android
Apple Notes and Podless
| Apple Notes and Podless | Apple Notes | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | Apple NotesOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | Apple NotesNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | Apple NotesPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | Apple NotesUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | Apple NotesAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | Apple NotesYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Other swaps
OneNote
AnchorPipedrive Twenty
Drag deals across a board from stage to stage, with contacts and companies behind them and notes and tasks on the record. Without a price per seat, on your own instance.
Salesforce Twenty
For small teams that find a big CRM too much: companies, contacts and deals in tables you extend yourselves. Open, without seats, on your own instance.