Alternatives to Checkvist
A keyboard-driven online outliner for building nested task lists, checklists and research notes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Checkvist
A keyboard-driven online outliner for building nested task lists, checklists and research notes.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Checkvist.
Workflowy
A nested outliner that organizes notes, lists and projects as a single tree of bullets.
Workflowy keeps notes and tasks in a single nested list with desktop, mobile and web apps, though its free plan caps new nodes at 100 per month.
Logseq
An outliner that stores notes as plain Markdown files, built around a daily journal and linked blocks.
Logseq is an AGPL-licensed outliner that stores notes as local Markdown files, with a daily journal, block-level linking and a plugin API, instead of an online-only service.
Roam Research
A networked note-taking outliner for connecting related ideas into a graph of linked notes.
Roam Research is a paid web outliner focused on linking notes into a graph of ideas, with real-time collaboration and an option to store data locally.
OmniOutliner
An outlining app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro for structuring ideas and documents.
OmniOutliner is a paid outlining app for Apple devices that adds columns, smart calculation columns and attachments, but gives up Checkvist's browser access and web sharing.
Bike
A fast outliner and rich text writing app for the Mac that uses standard file formats.
Bike is a paid Mac-only outliner using standard file formats that stays fast with very large outlines, replacing an online service with a local app.
TreeSheets
Organize ideas in a grid of nested cells.
TreeSheets is a free Zlib-licensed desktop app that mixes hierarchical outlines with a spreadsheet-like grid of nested cells, a different structure that takes some adjustment.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
RemNote
Note-taking app that pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
Org mode
A GNU Emacs major mode for notes, outlines, to-do lists and documents kept in plain text.
Twos
An app for quickly writing down notes, to-dos, reminders and events organised by day.
Superlist
A task and notes app from the creators of Wunderlist, combining to-do lists, notes and projects.
Amplenote
A note-taking and task app that combines linked notes, a to-do list, calendar planning and AI agents.
Diigo
A web annotation and bookmarking service with a browser extension for highlighting, tagging and saving pages.
