When comparing VoodooPad 5 vs Tomboy, the Slant community recommends Tomboy for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” Tomboy is ranked 11th while VoodooPad 5 is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Tomboy is:
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Specs
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Pros
Pro A desktop wiki
VoodooPad 5 is focused on use by an individual. It is a mature application. Its polished refinements are based upon many years of user experiences and feedback.
Pro Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your documents.
Pro Good task management features
Within the collections palette you'll find "to-dos" that are all @todo entries that you've left across all of your pages.
Pro Synchronize via Dropbox
You can utilize Dropbox to keep VoodooPad synchronized across all of your devices and allow for collaboration with other people.
Pro Java scriptlet & Event scripts support
To dynamically change HTML, ePub and PDF exports you can use Java scriptlets. To extend the functionality of VoodooPad you can use Event scripts.
Pro Export to ePub and PDF
Alongside being able to export a page as HTML, RTFD, Plain Text, or as a Word Document, you can export the whole document as XML, RTFD, Plain Text, .doc, ePub, PDF or to an iOS device via VP Reader.
Pro Collections palette
Collections allow creating an organizational structure of your pages.
Pro Free and open source
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Pro Can be extended with add-ins
If Tomboy doesn't have the features you want out of the box, you may be able to find them here as a plug in.
Pro Lightweight
Cons
Con OS X only
There are no Windows or Linux versions of VoodooPad.
Con Costs $24.99 USD
Price can be found here: http://www.voodoopad.com/
Con Breaks compatibility with VoodooPad 4
VoodooPad 5 uses a new file format that is not backwards compatible.