Fleeing from Catch Notes

Catch Notes terminates on August 30, 2013. Catch (ThreeBanana earlier) was the best note taking app to (sic) take notes. I.e. it doesn’t have all that colorful UI clutter requiring N taps for a simple action. It mostly serves (text) note taking with light organization and sharing features. It has mobile apps, cloud storage to sync and web UI for desktops. Where to flee now?

Simplenote seems to be an appealing cloud text synchronization service with an open API. But no satisfactory alive Android apps. And Google Trends clearly predicts it goes to the same end as Catch.

OK, what’s else? The remaining most popular note taking apps for Android are ColorNote, Evernote and InkPad. Evernote is overloaded and pricy, it's just completely another kind of apps. But the other two look light. Both have cloud sync but it triggered manually. No sharing and

• ColorNote can import notes from Catch but has no desktop or web client (it’s just planned) and no good way to organize notes. Though the Android app is convenient, has wiki-links between notes and ability to archive notes.
• InkPad has no organize tools too but has a web UI. Android app UX is a bit tough.

OK, what’s next? Google Keep, MobisleNotes, Microsoft OneNote and Springpad. OneNote and Springpad are by no way easy to use. Moreover OneNote brings SkyDrive - way too much for just a note taking app.

• Keep - are you imagine keeping several hundred notes there?
• MobisleNotes - has folders, supports collaboration on notes, but the app was not updated for year now and developers “planning the future of the service” since April 2013.
• Springpad - is it a note-taking app or a Pinterest prototype? Last time I gave it a try it clearly lost to Catch.

Last tier worth to consider - apps with 500,000+ installations on Google Play. GNotes and Simple Notepad by mightyfrog.

• GNotes uses a bit exotic cloud storage - GMail. Thus it relies on Google’s will which may change.
• Simple Notepad is like InkPad minus web UI - it uses Dropbox for sync.

The remaining apps in Play Market are not worth to consider taking their user base in account.

Finally. Either ColorNote or Evernote. Both have utilities to import from Catch. Both are harsh compromises.