Alternatives to Scrintal
A visual note-taking web app that places linked notes on boards for research and study. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Scrintal
A visual note-taking web app that places linked notes on boards for research and study.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Scrintal.
Heptabase
Visual note-taking app that organizes research as cards on whiteboards.
Heptabase organises research as cards on whiteboards with apps for Windows, macOS and web, and also requires a paid subscription.
Kinopio
A spatial note-taking canvas for collecting cards and connecting ideas, alone or with others.
Kinopio is a spatial canvas of connected cards that works offline and needs no sign-up to start, but its free tier is limited to 100 cards.
Milanote
A visual board tool for arranging notes, images, links and files for creative projects.
Milanote arranges notes, images, links and files on visual boards with a web clipper and sharing, aimed at creative projects, with a free tier.
Allume
A canvas app for thinking with nested boards of text, ink, images and PDFs, formerly Muse.
Allume offers nested boards mixing ink, text, images and PDFs on Mac and iPad, suited to pencil sketching, but it is Apple only.
Tinderbox
A Mac app for making, visualizing and analyzing notes, with map views and automation.
Tinderbox is a paid Mac app with map views and rule-based automation for analyzing notes, trading web access for a desktop app with a learning curve.
AFFiNE Community
Combine notes, tables and a drawing canvas in a local-first workspace.
AFFiNE combines notes, tables and a drawing canvas in a free MIT-licensed local-first workspace with desktop apps and a self-hostable edition.
Supernotes
A collaborative note-taking app that stores ideas as linked notecards with Markdown and LaTeX.
Supernotes stores ideas as linked notecards with a graph view and real-time sharing on iOS and web, freemium rather than paid.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Xmind
A mind mapping and brainstorming app for web, desktop and mobile with AI and Gantt planning.
Freeplane
Mind mapping and knowledge management that goes far beyond drawing bubbles, with scripting, conditional styles and attributes.
Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
Roam Research
A networked note-taking outliner for connecting related ideas into a graph of linked notes.
Capacities
Object-based note app that organizes ideas as typed, tagged objects.
MindNode
A mind mapping and outlining app for Apple devices that turns loose ideas into structured plans.
