10 Best Google Keep Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Paid)

Apple Notes is free, already on your iPhone and Mac, and has grown into a capable notebook: checklists, folders, tags and Smart Folders, and real-time collaboration on shared notes and folders. Turn on Advanced Data Protection and your notes are end-to-end encrypted; locked notes always are.

The catch is reach. There are no Android or Windows apps, so elsewhere you use icloud.com in a browser. Notes have no reminders of their own (you share a note to the Reminders app), and there is no Keep importer, although the Mac app imports HTML files like the ones in a Google Takeout export.

OneNote is a free digital notebook of notebooks, sections and pages that you can type or draw anywhere on. To Do tags turn lines into checkboxes, notebooks can be shared for editing or viewing, and everything syncs through OneDrive: 5 GB free, or 100 GB with Microsoft 365 Basic at $19.99 a year.

It is heavier than Keep for a quick note, reminders only work through Outlook tasks in the desktop app, and we found no Keep import tool. OneDrive encrypts files at rest, but there is no end-to-end encryption. If you still use OneNote for Windows 10, note that it reached end of support in October 2025.

Notesnook is open source and end-to-end encrypted by default, so the company cannot read your notes. The free plan has unlimited notes and devices, basic checklists and reminders, with caps of 50 notebooks, 50 tags and 10 active reminders. It imports Keep directly from the Google Takeout .zip in its web or desktop app.

Paid plans start with Essential at $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year, which adds advanced task lists. You can publish a note as a web page, optionally with a password, but there is no collaboration feature.

Standard Notes, owned by Proton since April 2024, is end-to-end encrypted on every plan, syncs across unlimited devices for free, and has a built-in importer that reads the HTML files from a Keep Takeout export.

The free plan is plain text with tags. Checklists, rich text and folders need Productivity at $90 a year, and there is no real-time collaboration.

Obsidian keeps your notes as Markdown files on your own device, free without limits, including for work. Its official Importer plugin reads the Keep Takeout .zip, although checklists are flattened and reminders dropped. Task lists are Markdown checkboxes, and Obsidian has no reminders.

Syncing between devices is the paid part: Obsidian Sync starts at $4 a month billed annually, or $5 month to month, and is end-to-end encrypted. There is no web app.

Joplin is free and open source, with notebooks, tags, task lists and to-do notes with alarms. Sync through Dropbox, OneDrive or Nextcloud for free, or use Joplin Cloud from €2.99 a month, and switch on optional end-to-end encryption.

There is no built-in Keep importer; a community plugin, updated in February 2026, imports the Takeout files with checklists, labels and attachments. Sharing your own notebooks needs Joplin Cloud Pro.

Notion is free for one person, with unlimited blocks, to-do blocks and date reminders, and it is built for sharing: invite people with permissions or publish a page to the web.

It is far more than a notes app, which is the downside if you only want quick capture. There is no Keep importer, though Notion imports HTML and Markdown files; encryption is at rest rather than end-to-end; and paid plans start with Plus at $10 per member per month.

Evernote combines notes, tasks with reminders and a calendar on every platform. Its free plan is now 50 notes, one notebook and one device, which makes it a trial for most Keep users; Starter costs $14.99 a month or $99 a year.

There is no direct import from Keep: Evernote's own guide has you export with Google Takeout and import the files, and labels and reminders do not carry over. Notes are encrypted at rest with AES-256, not end-to-end.

Bear is a polished Markdown editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with nested tags and nestable to-dos. The app is free; Pro ($2.99 a month or $29.99 a year) adds sync, password-protected notes, advanced export and themes.

It is Apple only (Bear Web is in public beta, with no plans for Android or Windows), there is no collaboration, and there is no Keep importer, although it imports HTML and Markdown files.