A free, open-source Milanote alternative — with no note limit

Odinote is an infinite canvas workspace for planning games, novels and creative projects. Unlimited notes and boards, your data on your own machine, and no subscription — ever.

Why people look for a Milanote alternative

Milanote is a genuinely good tool, and its board-and-card model is a pleasure to use. The friction usually starts in the same place: the free plan stops at 100 notes, images and links. For a hobby project, a novel outline or a game design document, you hit that ceiling fast — and then the choice is pay monthly or start deleting work.

Odinote was built by one developer who kept hitting that ceiling while organising game design documents and art references. The result is a workspace with the same spatial, visual feel and none of the artificial limits.

Odinote vs Milanote at a glance

What Odinote does differently: recursion

The feature that has no equivalent in Milanote is truly nested canvases. A board in Odinote isn't a folder — it's a complete canvas, and any canvas inside it can hold more boards, forever. A game project can look like this:

• Root canvas — the pitch, the roadmap, the core loop
• → Art board — direction, palettes, references
• → → Characters board — one mood board per character
• → → → and deeper, as far as the project needs

Breadcrumbs at the top always show where you are, so you never lose context and you never run out of room. Read the full user guide for how nested boards, columns and connectors work together.

Everything included, with no upgrade prompt

• 16+ node types — rich-text notes, to-do lists, documents, images with cropping, audio, links with previews, colour palettes, tables, calendars, frames and comments.
• Connectors that link any two nodes, in curved or right-angle routing.
• Local vault — bind a project to a real folder on your disk; media is written as ordinary files you own forever.
• Optional Google Drive sync — put a workspace online and it syncs through your Drive to your other devices. Invite collaborators by their Google email.
• Dark mode, 11 interface languages, keyboard shortcuts and JSON backups you can export and import anywhere.

Try it without installing anything

The web version is the same application, running entirely in your browser with nothing to sign up for. If you like it, the Windows desktop app adds local vault folders and offline media.