Bubbles
Bubbles
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| Bubbles | Apple Notes | Notion | Obsidian | Evernote | Microsoft OneNote | Roam Research | Miro | Trello | NotebookLM | Windows Notepad | Google Docs | Microsoft Word | Kosmik | Craft | Bear | Capacities | Mem | Tana | Reflect | Heptabase | Milanote | Scrintal | FigJam | Logseq | Joplin | |
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| Ideal for | Creative knowledge workers | Apple ecosystem users who need quick notes | Teams managing docs, projects & wikis | Markdown‑power users & offline PKM | Users who archive lots of web & PDF clippings | MS users needing freeform notebooks | Networked thinkers & researchers | Remote whiteboarding & workshops | Simple Kanban project boards | AI‑first research summaries | Plain text quick edits | Real‑time cloud word processing | Formal documents & complex formatting | Visual thinkers & researchers | Mac/iOS users needing polished docs | Markdown lovers on Apple devices | Second‑brain + AI organization | AI‑first personal notes | Networked PKM with supertags | Personal journal & backlinks | Researchers & academics | Creative moodboards & storyboards | Researchers linking ideas on a canvas | Design teams brainstorming | Open‑source outliner & daily notes | Open‑source note + to‑do |
| Key strengths | Fast, fluid, and fun | Seamless iOS/macOS integration, pencil support | Flexible databases, integrations, structure | Local files, plugin ecosystem, privacy | Web clipper, search in PDFs, cross‑platform | Freeform canvas pages, ink/draw, free tier | Daily notes, bidirectional links, graph | Infinite canvas, templates, integrations | Boards, lists, Power‑Ups | Contextual Q&A, source citations | Instant launch, zero bloat | Collaboration, comments, integrations | Styles, review mode, templates | Infinite canvas, hyper‑media blocks | Beautiful UI, share pages, offline | Speed, tagging, beautiful themes | Object‑based data model, AI tags | Auto‑tagging, zero friction capture | Dynamic schema, daily flow, AI | Speed, calendar integration | Card‑based canvas, citations | Drag‑drop canvas, visual boards | Card linking, citations | Sticky notes, voting, stickers | Local data, graph, plugins | Markdown, end‑to‑end encryption |
| Pricing | €4.90/mo | Free (iCloud storage counts) | $10 user/mo (Plus) + $8 AI | Free core; Sync $4–8 | $10.99 Personal | Free; M365 $6+ | $15 | $10 | $6‑17 | Free (Labs) | Free (Windows) | Free / Workspace $6+ | Microsoft 365 $6+ | $8–12 | $8–12 | $2.99/mo | $10 | $12 | $10 (beta) | $10 | $12 | $9.99 | $12 | $5 | Free | Free / Cloud €5+ |
| Note taking | ✅ Super-quick note capture | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Partly Sticky notes |
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| Document editing | ✅ Rich text, Markdown + AI assist |
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Partly Outline blocks |
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Partly Plain text only |
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| Canvas | ✅ Infinite multi-media canvas |
Partly Free‑hand sketches inside notes |
Partly With add-ons |
✅ Graph & canvas view | – | ✅ Page canvas |
Partly Graph view |
✅ Infinite collaborative board | – | – | – | – | – | ✅ |
Partly Card/board view |
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Partly Graph view |
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| Collaboration | ✅ Real-time, public and private workspaces | ✅ Real‑time (iCloud share) | ✅ Real‑time |
Partly Sync & vault share |
Partly Shared notebooks |
✅ Real‑time (SharePoint) |
Partly Shared graphs (beta) |
✅ Real‑time multi‑user | ✅ Real‑time board | – | – | ✅ | ✅ Co‑authoring |
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Partly Share links |
Partly Shared workspaces |
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Partly Share boards |
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✅ Live co‑editing | – |
Partly Joplin Cloud |
| AI | ✅ Context-aware chat, understands images and PDFs, automatically organizes notes | – |
Partly Prompt‑based Notion AI (paid add‑on) |
Partly Via community plugins |
Partly AI search & summaries (2024 update) |
Partly Copilot text prompts (M365) |
Partly GPT‑powered blocks |
Partly AI clustering & summarise |
Partly Atlassian Intelligence |
✅ Native, context‑aware chat | – |
Partly Gemini AI assists |
Partly Copilot suggestions |
Partly GPT‑powered assistant |
Partly Craft AI assist |
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Partly AI summaries |
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