Standard Notes

4.6
4.08K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Standard Notes is a secure and private notes app. It syncs your notes securely across all your devices, including your Android devices, Windows, iOS, Linux, and Web.

Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes.

Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices.

Our users love us for:
• Personal Notes
• Tasks & Todos
• Passwords & Keys
• Code & Technical Procedures
• Private Journal
• Meeting Notes
• Cross-platform Scratchpad
• Books, Recipes, & Movies
• Health & Fitness Log

Standard Notes comes free with:
• Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on Android, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browsers.
• Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection.
• No limit on number of devices.
• No limit on number of notes.
• Passcode lock protection, along with fingerprint protection.
• A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto).
• The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied.

Standard Notes is completely open-source, which means when we say your notes are encrypted with industry-leading XChaCha-20 encryption, and that only you can read your notes, you don't have to take our word for it. Our code is open to the world to audit.

We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year.

To sustain our development, we offer an optional paid program called Standard Notes Extended. Extended gives you access to powerful tools including:
• Productivity editors (like Markdown, Code, Spreadsheets)
• Beautiful themes (like Midnight, Focus, Solarized Dark)
• Powerful cloud tools including daily backups of your encrypted data delivered to your email inbox every day, or backed up to your cloud provider (like Dropbox and Google Drive).

You can learn more about Extended at standardnotes.com/extended.

We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at help@standardnotes.com. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same.
Updated on
Apr 22, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
3.91K reviews
Nadya Dwi Puspitasari
April 14, 2024
I use Standard Notes to keep important text-only notes, both on my PC and my phone. I love it cause it supported with E2E encryption. But, It's sad cuz this app doesn't have undo and redo button on free ver. On PC, I can undo/redo with keyboard, but I can't do that on my phone. 😭 Cause of that, I tried to write and delete words carefully so I didn't lose my entire notes :"D Especially, cause the sync process of this platform is very seamless. It'll be bad if I accidentally delete my notes 😞
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Standard Notes
April 16, 2024
Hi Nadya, thank you for your honest thoughts on the app so far! While free users do not have the undo/redo button found on the Super note type, free users can access the Session History of a note, which may have past versions of a note as well: https://standardnotes.com/help/26/how-do-i-enable-note-version-history
Dale MacDougall
April 6, 2024
I've been using the free version of this app for a while and it's great. I will never need all the features it offers or be able to justify the expense. I would happily pay a one time fee of $15-20 for dark mode, super notes and folders. Please consider a cheaper/smaller alternative to your current options.
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Standard Notes
April 8, 2024
Hi Dale, thank you for your review and your honest thoughts on the current pricing of the app! We'll certainly take note of your feedback, though please know that you can email us anytime at help@standardnotes.com regarding the pricing, and although we cannot provide one-time purchase arrangements, we can still look into possible discount offers!
Balreuse Baker
March 1, 2024
So much to be desired but unachieved. While I found it to be clunky at times and probably needs to be optimized, my biggest frustration was the import feature (complete renaming to date of imported notes and tags) and constant error messages of "Too many requests". I barely do anything that I assumed would be too many. Unless it's because I have so many notes that performing any basic task causes a spike. After about two and a half months (not men 😊) of use, it's time to say bye.
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Standard Notes
March 4, 2024
Hi there, we're sorry to hear that you didn't have a good experience with the app. If it's alright though, we'd like to know more about the issues you encountered after importing your notes, as it may help us improve the import tools. Would you be able to share more details at help@standardnotes.com?