Microsoft OneNote
Capture ideas, organize projects, and keep everything in one place—accessible across all your devices.
- Also known as
- microsoft-onenote
What is Microsoft OneNote?
Digital note-taking app that lets you capture ideas, organize projects, and collaborate with others across all your devices.
Microsoft OneNote pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
$32.00/user/month, billed annually as part of Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot
OneNote included with Copilot and other Microsoft 365 business apps
- Copilot in OneNote for drafting and organizing
- Sketch, annotate, and highlight with digital ink
- Share and collaborate
- Accessible across desktop, web, and mobile
What Microsoft OneNote does
The capabilities that matter for knowledge base software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Real-time co-editing
- ✓
- Structured database / table blocks
- -
- Bidirectional links / backlinks
- -
- Markdown-native
- -
- Version history
- -
- Local-first / offline files
- -
- AI writing / Q&A over content
- ✓
- Publish pages to the web
- -
- Permissions granularity
- -
- Answer verification / expiry
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- SSO / SCIM
- -
- Public API
- -
- Free tier
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Microsoft OneNote alternatives
Other knowledge base software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ObsidianSharpen your thinkinglow · 35%
- Codamedium · 63%
- CraftYour space for notes, tasks, and big ideaslow · 37%
- NuclinoYour team's collective brainmedium · 53%
- Confluencemedium · 50%
- TettraStop answering repetitive questions in Slack. Create an AI-powered knowledge base that does it for you.medium · 59%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Microsoft OneNote, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 46 | 32.00 | 1466.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 20 | 16.00 | 320.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.