Ano-nym-ous ,

When I initially purchased Outline, it was superior to then-terrible Onenote for iOS. Since then, the situation had reversed.



Outline still has three advantages over Onenote:



1) It can use files from cloud storage other than Onedrive. This is the biggest advantage - but only for those who need it. If you're using a free Onenote on the desktop, you really can't utilize this. You also need to be using Onedrive if you want to have web access to your notebooks.



2) It has a beautiful visual design.



3) It can open .one files directly from email, which is a useful feature in some very limited circumstances.



It also has a number of drawbacks, and here's the two biggest ones:



1) It doesn't OCR images, it doesn't OCR printouts, and even when it seems to find text in printouts created by Onenote, it won't highlight it half the time. This makes it a poor data management solution - what good is all that info if I can't find it ? This is a major design limitation.



2) While the sync has improved lately, it is still slow and there's no background sync.



With Onenote getting better and better, they need to at least fix the search to stay relevant.