cherrytree

cherrytree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories.

Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen) and Evgenii Gurianov (aka txe).

The user manual online html and downloadable ctb written by Ellie Borden (currently old and discontinued).

The following languages are supported (If you want to help translating to your language write me):
– Arabic (ar, Abdulrahman Karajeh, TO BE UPDATED)
– Armenian (hy, Seda Stamboltsyan, up to date)
– Bulgarian (bg, Iliya Nikolaev, up to date)
– Chinese Simplified (zh_CN, Wang Yu, TO BE UPDATED)
– Chinese Traditional (zh_TW, Emer Chen, up to date)
– Croatian (hr, Filip Bakula, TO BE UPDATED)
– Czech (cs, Pavel Fric, up to date)
– Dutch (nl, TO BE UPDATED)
– English (en, default)
– French (fr, Francis Gernet, up to date)
– Finnish (fi, Henri Kaustinen, TO BE UPDATED)
– German (de, Matthias Hoffmann, up to date)
– Greek (el, Asterios Siomos, up to date)
– Hindi India (hi_IN, TO BE UPDATED)
– Hungarian (hu, Stiener Norbert, up to date)
– Italian (it, Vincenzo Reale, up to date)
– Japanese (ja, Piyo, up to date)
– Kazakh (kk_KZ, Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
– Kazakh (kk_LA, Latin, Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
– Korean (ko, Sean Lee, TO BE UPDATED)
– Lithuanian (lt, TO BE UPDATED)
– Persian (fa, Majid Abri, TO BE UPDATED)
– Polish (pl, Mariusz Gasperaniec, up to date)
– Portuguese (pt, Rui Santos, TO BE UPDATED)
– Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR, Raysa Dutra, up to date)
– Romanian (ro, Tudor Sprinceana, up to date)
– Russian (ru, Viktor Polyanskiy, up to date)
– Slovak (sk, Michal Fusatý, up to date)
– Slovenian (sl, Erik Lovrič, up to date)
– Spanish (es, up to date)
– Swedish (sv, Åke Engelbrektson, TO BE UPDATED)
– Turkish (tr, Ferhat Aydin, up to date)
– Ukrainian (uk, Giuseppe Penone, up to date)		 features features
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help features :

  • rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
  • syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
  • images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
  • latex math equations rendering
  • embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
  • multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
  • simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
  • codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
  • execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog; an embedded terminal is available on linux and mac os
  • alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
  • hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
  • spell check (using gspell)
  • intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
  • cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
  • copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
  • print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 and text sections between headers collapsible
  • find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
  • replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
  • iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
  • import from html file, import from folder of html files
  • import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
  • import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
  • export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
  • password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) available only for storage as single file – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
  • tree nodes drag and drop
  • automatic link to web page if writing the URL
  • automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]



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downloadDownload last stable version 1.4.0 (March 22nd, 2025 – changelog) :

tar.gz archive Source code (GPLv3+): cherrytree_1.4.0.tar.xz
with signature cherrytree_1.4.0.tar.xz.asc and key:
terminal gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C7BF38CE0BD442C2369AA984049128A20CE0648D
terminal gpg --verifyPATH.tar.xz.asc
( NOTE: also available under github releases )

linuxubuntu package Ubuntu focal 20.04 LTS / jammy 22.04 LTS / noble 24.04 LTS / oracular 24.10
giuspen PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:giuspen/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cherrytree

https://launchpad.net/~giuspen/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

linuxdebian packageDebian 12 cherrytree_1.4.0-2~Debian12_amd64.deb
Debian 11 cherrytree_1.4.0-2~Debian11_amd64.deb

linuxrpm package Fedora 41 cherrytree-1.4.0~Fedora41_amd64.rpm
Fedora 40 cherrytree-1.4.0~Fedora40_amd64.rpm
COPR repo from @bcotton https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bcotton/cherrytree/

linuxappimage package AppImage CherryTree-1.4.0-x86_64.AppImage (all in one file, after downloading make it executable and then run it from a terminal or just double click)

linuxflatpak package Flatpak https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.giuspen.cherrytree

linuxsnap package Snap https://snapcraft.io/cherrytree

mac os homebrew Mac OS X Installer (by @dehesselle) https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/cherrytree_macos/-/releases
or Homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cherrytree
or Mac Ports https://ports.macports.org/port/cherrytree

7z archive Microsoft windows installer: cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_setup.exe [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_setup.exe]

7z archive Microsoft windows portable archive: cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_portable.7z (look for mingw64/bin/cherrytree.exe; for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt) [variant without-latex; old pygtk2 cherrytree_0.39.4_win32_portable.7z]

terminal sha256sum *
3ab77aa7de62a0285ea9d227e640b0b20afc2f0b5b0dd1dbacde8bfe4791e8ab cherrytree_1.4.0.tar.xz
104f073557490e4707a2077745908b8e51eb8e28d3a7ec26f7edc4cc0e0e2325 cherrytree_1.4.0.tar.xz.asc
fda896510864ca4ebc9bf7e4aa865490cd86cead744f7798548bf1dcf2826f48 cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_portable.7z
e725681742a3a794fb9b67ed21cc6b87a4adc688e36e59f43bc5fdc826a9a8a5 cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_portable_nolatex.7z
ea775ec9c527e222657c5dae65abaf389c5760ea2b126d710e75de5e5c5b7f14 cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_setup.exe
15c52d2f70542f4e938ea09005b9c77db9320a05b1a9ec8016810eafb790a573 cherrytree_1.4.0.0_win64_setup_nolatex.exe
90b7573d51f97d605ea8e6aa6e478fdddcffc1292085a6e715fb0b16b3b10e50 CherryTree-1.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
d769dbb367eb057f35a54cd3cebf724da3198a0ad3233bf87b0db9bd7efa16b8 cherrytree_1.4.0-2~Debian12_amd64.deb
963f1595ac964f1022c4420fc700072077b6a96181fd26f37c57c08d9f7dd18f cherrytree_1.4.0-2~Debian11_amd64.deb
bed29b3a7678f660b0809c8afa8a6a54665b99888004a1f4b59901c45fe6474c cherrytree-1.4.0~Fedora41_amd64.rpm
b1d009e03e1e0d8ee26c1bb134305d0b52e75e2495402fee0654fdd20feefedb cherrytree-1.4.0~Fedora40_amd64.rpm

gnome resides in applications–accessories–cherrytree



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downloaddownload testing version:

(v1.3.0 pre-release)
linuxappimage packageAppImage CherryTree-1.2.0+51-x86_64.AppImage (all in one file, after downloading make it executable and then run it from a terminal or just double click)

7z archive Microsoft windows portable archive: cherrytree_1.2.0.0+51_win64_portable.7z (look for mingw64/bin/cherrytree.exe; for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt)



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plugins  source code :

the source code is version controlled with git and hosted by github.
you can get a clone of the cherrytree git repository issuing the command:

terminal git clone https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree.git
terminal git submodule update --init

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third party android  third party :

outstanding third party android project: SourCherry

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