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Knowte

A note taking application that allows you to quickly and easily organize and find your notes.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Knowte is a note-taking program, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository: Markdown support, annotation and highlighting.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A note taking application that allows you to quickly and easily organize and find your notes” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Create classic rich-text notes or write notes in Markdown with a live preview and synchronized scrolling.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Format Markdown with headings, emphasis, links, images, tables, quotes, task lists, and highlighted text.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Knowte is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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