Joplin

Laurent Cozic

About this app

Joplin is a secure, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified. The Android application supports markdown rendering.

The note can be securely synchronised using Joplin Cloud so that your notes are available on all your devices. It also lets you publish notes, and collaborate on notebooks with your friends, family or colleagues. Synchronisation is secured using end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

Besides Joplin Cloud, the notes can be synchronised with your other services, such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud, S3 or WebDAV. Joplin is also available for Windows, macOS and Linux and all can synchronise with each others so your notes can be available on your mobile phone, computer, tablet, etc. Please see the official website for the list of available applications: https://joplinapp.org/

The desktop applications can be used to import notes from Evenote via .enex files, including the formatted content (which is converted to markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). These imported notes can then be synchronised with the Android app.

Getting support: To get support please use the forum at https://discourse.joplinapp.org/

Ratings and reviews

Had to change my review because of synching nightmare. I started out liking this app but all of a sudden the synchronize on my Android just does not work. Constantly reloading all of my thousands of notes. Anytime I open it, it starts the process again. It has just become buggy and unreliable. I just can no longer deal with such inconvenience with this app.

I love the freedom this notebook app gives me. I can choose if and how I want to synchronize, including just setting my own custom folder and using whatever sync app I prefer. Although, I wonder why it doesn't directly support Google Drive like it does One Drive. I like how it uses markdown. It works well with internal links, grabbing files to put into the database or just using external links to files on my PC (hold ALT, drag and drop). It seems fast so far and hasn't crashed on me yet.

This app is great if you want to take notes and have them synced for free without having to worry about cloud services having your personal thoughts. The app is not as customizable as something like Obsidian without plugins --which I haven't tried-- but I think that it's perfect for someone who wants something with a lot of features without too much messing around with it.

What's new

List of changes at https://joplinapp.org/help/about/changelog/android/