# Alternatives to Google Notebook

Google's early clipping notebook. Google Notebook has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 12 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/google-notebook/
Category: Note-taking

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Web researchers and students who wanted to save snippets, images, and links while browsing without switching to a separate note-taking app.
- **What you get**: A browser extension and sidebar for clipping text, images, and URLs directly from web pages into organized notebooks. Users could add their own annotations alongside clipped content, arrange notes into sections, and optionally publish a notebook as a public, shareable web page. Search worked across all saved notes and clippings. Google discontinued the product around 2011-2012 after halting development in 2009.
- **How it works**: After installing the browser extension, users highlighted content on any page and saved it to a notebook via a sidebar or right-click menu, then organized and annotated the clips from the Google Notebook web interface.

## Profile


## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Amplenote](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/amplenote.md) | building | ? | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 2 | [Apple Notes](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/apple-notes.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS, iOS, Web |
| 3 | [Bear](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/bear.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS, iOS, Web |
| 4 | [Evernote](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/evernote.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Web, iOS |
| 5 | [GoodNotes](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/goodnotes.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, macOS, Windows, Android |
| 6 | [Google Keep](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/google-keep.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension |
| 7 | [Joplin](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/joplin.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 8 | [Notability](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/notability.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, macOS, Web |
| 9 | [Notesnook](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/notesnook.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 10 | [Notion](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/notion.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 11 | [Simplenote](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/simplenote.md) | building | GPL-2.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 12 | [Standard Notes](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/standard-notes.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 13 | [UpNote](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/upnote.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 14 | [Zettlr](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/zettlr.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux |

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