Productivity tools / Simplenote
Simplenote
The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
Where it stands
3.8 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 1 of 3 signals
- Website health4.2 / 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
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Simplenote yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
4.2 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Simplenote'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 14 ms.
- Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 10 classified comments from 4 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“Simplenote was my favorite note taking app until it lost notes of mine a few years back. I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I think Notational Velocity (MacOS) still supports syncing with SimpleNote while keeping notes as separate files locally (though I've not used it with Simplenote in several years and could be wrong, switched to a hacked…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Simplenote is no longer in active development (2026, 55 comments) · Automattic open sources Simplenote (2016, 40 comments) · Show HN: Simplenote – Notes with support for publishing (hosted, Markdown) (2022, 5 comments) · Simplenote free notes sync broken for days (2023, 3 comments)
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Tasks and scores
- Note takingNot tested yet
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