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Tine

Fast local-first Logseq-compatible outliner.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
  • Open source

Overview

Tine is a note-taking mobile app, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Features described in its F-Droid listing, on its official website and in its GitHub repository: offline use, Markdown support, annotation and highlighting, split view.

File formats mentioned: PDF and HTML.

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
  • “Fast local-first Logseq-compatible outliner” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Tine is a fast, local outliner that reads and writes the same Markdown graph as Logseq.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Tine is a fast, local outliner that reads and writes the same Markdown graph as Logseq.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “The Logseq features you rely on — queries, /calc , callouts, PDF annotation, namespaces, properties, org-mode — read and written in the very same format.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “It's read-only, but everything else works: Ctrl + K search, tabs, split view, back/forward, linked references.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (AGPL-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 advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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