Beaver Notes

What is Beaver Notes?

Private Markdown notes app that keeps everything on your device, with tags, links and drawing.

Who is Beaver Notes best for?

Beaver Notes is best for privacy-minded people who want a local notes app with no account, no cloud and no AI.

• Private journals

  Notes live only on your device, with no account to create and no server in between.

• Technical and study notes

  Markdown, code blocks, LaTeX math and diagrams sit in the same note.

• Linked notes

  Note links, tags and labels connect related pages, and a command prompt searches titles, content and labels.

• Sketches and files

  Drawings, PDFs, images and audio can be placed inside a note.

How much does Beaver Notes cost?

Beaver Notes is free and MIT licensed, with no paid plan; if you want sync, you set it up through a cloud storage provider of your choice.

Beaver Notes has no paid tier. The project takes donations through GitHub Sponsors. Full pricing on github.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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Is Beaver Notes open source?

Yes. Beaver Notes's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.

What are the best Beaver Notes alternatives?

Beaver Notes is an open source alternative to Bear Notes, Evernote and Obsidian. AppFlowy, Notesnook and Tolaria do the same job and are open source too.

Bear NotesFree

Minimal Markdown notes for Mac and iOS.

EvernoteFree

Notes, tasks and calendar with AI search.

ObsidianFree

Local-first Markdown notes with a plugin ecosystem.

AppFlowyOpen Source

Open-source workspace for docs, wikis and databases you can self-host.

NotesnookOpen Source

End-to-end encrypted notes.

TolariaOpen Source

Open-source desktop app that stores notes as plain Markdown files, with built-in Git and AI.

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