Standard Notes

Standard Notes

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 [e-mail]. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same.

Ratings and reviews

Yea, like im on market for a new cross platform notepad app. I am willing to subscribe if i feel an app has meaningful features i prefer using. Here, clicking around menus.. i am not really sure what i am looking at. It seems over half of the app is around paywall with no demo mode. I will only subscribe if i feel confident about a product. Since I can't try the final product, i feel it's a waste of time

The differences between a free and premium subscription plan is accessibility. Usually premium is for extra or more advanced options whereas a free trial provides the most basic features. Tell me why I have to pay $90 a year for basic features like checkboxes and font editing, the same features I could access in apps like Apple Notes, Google Keep, or even Notesnook who is your direct competitor. This app could've been in my top spot if it didn't put basic features behind a trivial paywall.

I've decided to look for other options. The UI changes from the old red theme were stale on arrival and haven't improved since. Pretty much every other open source app on my phone supports the newer look and feel of android. The app is still buggy too, so in preparation of migrating to a different app I exported my notes, however the export didn't finish until ten minutes later after I had given up and closed it. I hate to leave but I've waited years now and I want a better experience.

What’s new

- Fixes checkboxes parsed as bullet items when importing Evernote notes
- Fixes highlight text style lost when importing Evernote notes
- Fixes empty lines doubled when importing Evernote notes