Buy once instead of Roam Research
- Ways out
- 2apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $289Tinderbox
- Cost nothing
- 1freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 ObsidianLocal-first markdown vault, free with no feature gates | FreeFreeware | Multi-device sync is $48 a year unless you wire up iCloud or git yourself |
 TinderboxExpensive, perpetual, and unmatched for notes that have to do work | $289Paid upgrades | A year of upgrades is included, then a new version costs $98 or $83 a year to stay current |