Joplin

Laurent Cozic

About this app

Privacy-first app
Capture your thoughts freely and without distractions, tracking, or ads. With Joplin’s end-to-end encryption and open-source code, you can concentrate on your ideas and tasks without worrying about your privacy.

Capture multimedia notes
Capture multimedia notes effortlessly. In Joplin you can :
• create manuscript notes,
• transcribe speech to note,
• add multimedia: photos, videos, PDFs, and images,
• insert documents as attachments,
• create math expressions, add tables, write code and insert diagrams,
• create to-dos and add reminders.

Organise your ideas
Organise your notes into notebooks. Connect your notes with tags by subject or priority. Use colours and rich text editor to format your notes with ease. Make task lists, create to-dos and add reminders. Effortlessly find your notes, even within PDFs and images, thanks to the powerful search feature enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Use Joplin to store your bills, lecture notes, photos or receipts.

Reliable synchronisation
Access your notes from computer, phone or tablet by synchronising with various services including Joplin Cloud, Dropbox and OneDrive. Seamlessly move from one device to another.

Offline-first
You can access your notes anytime and anywhere, even without Internet. If you’re using Joplin on multiple devices, they will synchronise and update once you regained the connection.

Enhance your productivity across devices
Extend your note-taking experience by using Joplin on additional devices such as a desktop computer or tablet. Make the most of each device by using its specific features. On the desktop app, use a web clipper extension, wide-range of community plugins and a Markdown editor. Experience flawless handwriting and drawing on your tablet.

Join active community
Connect with Joplin’s vibrant community on Joplin Forum. It’s a place where users can share ideas, ask questions, exchange information and give feedback. Joplin’s dynamic community also develops powerful plugins, so you can customise your app to suit your needs.

Ratings and reviews

As far as to it's usefulness as a note keeper, I think it's good. My issue with it is in the setting it up on another phones. It should be as easy as something like Colornotes which works on as many phones as you have and the syncing simultaneously on all of them is easy. I have yet been able to transfer my notes from one phone to another although I've done everything the instructions say to do. This is the main drawback. If you just need an app to store notes on one phone, by all means get it.

It has a lot of advanced functionality and configuration options but the Android version is missing some seemingly basic must-have options like auto-backups, view/restore revisions, widgets and more. A lot of this can be solved with plugins but most plugins only work on PC and I hardly use one anymore. I love the sync options especially WebDav. If not for a few of the mentioned shortcomings this would easily be a 4 or 5 star app.

You should only use the app if you do not use sync between devices. If you do use sync be ready to lose your notes. It will delete stuff it should not. The app has the worst sync implementation I have ever experienced. For example, simply enabling synchronization on Android to an empty location may result in files being deleted because it thinks the new empty folder is the source it should sync from. So the standalone note taking is excellent, 5 stars. Add sync, get document shredder app.

What’s new

Changelog at https://joplinapp.org/help/about/changelog/android/