Open source alternatives to GoodNotes

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what GoodNotes does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What GoodNotes does

Handwritten notes with a styluscore
Annotate PDFscore
Notebooks and folders
Search handwriting
Digital planners and templates
Sync across devices
Shapes and highlighter tools
Share and collaborate

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
brainotesHandwritten notes and whiteboard in the browser, stored locally	Replaces it70%	84+10	395	None	Too few	Runs in a browser	MIT
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Digital planners and templates; Share and collaborate. Not shown: Search handwriting; Sync across devices.See the evidence Handwritten notes with a styluscoreYesBallpoint, fountain pen, marker, pencil and highlighter, with pen pressure Annotate PDFscoreYesWrite on a pdf Notebooks and foldersYesNotebooks on blank, lined, grid or dotted paper Search handwritingNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Digital planners and templatesPartlyblank, lined, grid or dotted paper Sync across devicesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Shapes and highlighter toolsYesPictures, shapes, text, a lasso, an eraser Share and collaboratePartlyto back up a notebook or share it

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