Joplin vs Lattics

Joplin is an open-source note-taking app with offline access and support for notes containing images, videos, PDFs and audio. It runs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux and the web, with a Chrome extension and API also listed. A web clipper for Chrome and Firefox saves pages or screenshots as notes. Notes can sync through Joplin Cloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV or a local filesystem. Joplin uses end-to-end encryption, and shared notebooks can be set to editable or read-only. Basic costs €2.99 a month, with 2 GB of storage and a 10 MB limit per note or attachment. Pro costs €5.99 a month for 30 GB and a 200 MB per-note or attachment limit; Pro 100 GB costs €9.99 a month. Teams costs €7.99 a month per user, with a minimum of two users, and includes 50 GB of storage. Plans include a 14-day free trial. Students and teachers can receive a 50% discount for one year, renewable while in education.

Lattics is a knowledge management and writing app for researchers, writers, and other knowledge workers. Its card library lets users organize, tag, and search small units of knowledge, then place them in project outlines. Articles and cards can be linked across projects with inline references and bidirectional links. For visual planning, the Graph offers Mind Map, Plot of Story, and Aerial views, alongside a timeline for story design, historical research, and project management.

Writing and research features include AI help with translation, proofreading, rewriting, creative writing, and consultation; bibliography generation; more than 8000 CSL citation styles; and journal layout templates. PDF tools support annotation and translation in 92 languages while preserving original formatting. Exports include PDF, Word, TXT, Markdown, PNG, and ePub. Lattics runs on web, Windows, macOS, and iOS, and works offline. Content is stored locally by default without registration or login; users may choose third-party cloud sync with end-to-end encryption. It offers a free plan, with Basic limits of 3 PDF translations and 3 OCR recognitions per 24 hours, plus 50 graph and timeline nodes per project.