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Standard Notes
Standard Notes helps you gain control in a world that often feels out of control. Protect your life's work with end-to-end encryption, advanced security measures, and unmatched privacy controls.
Where it stands
4.1 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.3 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
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 Standard Notes yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Standard Notes'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 134 ms.
- Security5 / 54 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.3 / 5 · 14 commenters64% of the 14 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Standard Notes; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“I’ve been using Standard Notes for a few years now, replacing Evernote and Google Docs. For simple notes that is more than enough. I have considered upgrading to the paid version just to support the project but I don’t…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“Joplin is excellent, that you can sync to a local directory (bit finicky to setup) is a massive win since I just write to a directory under syncthing (also amazing btw) and my notes are seamlessly available everywhere…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“At least standard notes produce conflicting copies when collisions occur. Obsidian simply overwrites the old with the new, which makes it completely unusable to me. I don't like the way standard notes handles it, but at…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Standard Notes (2023, 76 comments) · Standard Notes introduces encrypted file storage with automated backups (2022, 3 comments) · Standard Notes (2021, 3 comments)
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