Productivity tools / Notesnook
Notesnook
Express yourself with freedom — no spying, no tracking, only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is yours alone.
Where it stands
4.0 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 1 of 3 signals
- Website health4.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
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We have not run our own hands-on test on Notesnook yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use Notesnook?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “The free plan includes unlimited notes on unlimited devices, end-to-end encryption, and 50MB of attachment storage per month. The…”
Check first
- The free option has limits: “The free plan includes unlimited notes on unlimited devices, end-to-end encryption, and 50MB of attachment storage per month. The…”
- Its pages do not state: pricing, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Note taking
Measured signals
4.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Notesnook's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 429 ms.
- Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 2 classified comments from 4 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“Notesnook also works offline by default so there's no need for a special mode. It's also, obviously, local-first since everything gets encrypted on your device”
Read in the thread - Critical
“> Notesnook is rapidly evolving and changing, and hoping for self hosted users to keep up is impractical I don't know...does self-host equal slow changes. For me that's part of being a self-hoster, I have to keep the…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app (2023, 141 comments) · Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app (2021, 43 comments) · Notesnook: A Private Note Taking Alternative to Evernote (2021, 11 comments) · Notesnook: Open-source, encrypted, local-first note taking app (2025, 6 comments)
These facts may be out of date. One of the official pages they came from changed on 2026-11-10, after we last read it. Check the tool's own pages before you rely on a price or a limit.
- Free tier
- The free plan includes unlimited notes on unlimited devices, end-to-end encryption, and 50MB of attachment storage per month. The page says: “The free plan gives you unlimited notes on unlimited devices, end-to-end encrypted by default, with 50MB of attachment storage per month.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- An account is required to use Notesnook. The page says: “Create a new account.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Notes are encrypted on the user's device before being sent to the server. The page says: “Encrypted before they leave your device, so what travels is gibberish to everyone but you.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Pricing, Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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Tasks and scores
- Note takingNot tested yet
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