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A Simple and Private Notes App

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Standard Notes Overview

Standard Notes is a simple and private notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, including your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web browser.

Private means your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. Even we can't read the contents of your notes.

Simple means it does one job and does it well. Standard Notes is a safe and lasting place for your life's work. Our focus is making it easy to write notes wherever you are and syncing them with encryption to all your devices.

Standard Notes comes free with:
• Seamless sync across all your devices, with easy to use applications on iPhone, iPad, Mac, web browsers, and other platforms.
• Offline access, so you can access your downloaded notes even without a connection.
• No limit on number of devices.
• No limit on number of notes.
• Passcode lock protection, along with Touch ID and Face ID protection.
• A tagging system to organize your notes (like #work, #ideas, #passwords, #crypto).
• The ability to pin, lock, protect, and move notes to trash, which allows you to recover deleted notes until the trash is emptied.

We made Standard Notes simple because longevity is important to us. We want to make sure we're here, protecting your notes, for the next hundred years. You shouldn't have to find a new notes app every year.

To sustain our development, we offer an optional paid program called Standard Notes Extended. Extended gives you access to powerful tools including:
• Productivity editors
• Beautiful themes
• Powerful cloud tools including daily backups

You can learn more about Extended at standardnotes.org/extended.

We're always happy to talk, whether it be a question, thought, or issue. Please feel free to email us any time at [email protected]. When you take the time to send us a message, we'll be sure to do the same.

Standard Notes Features

tick-square Notetaking
tick-square Extensions
tick-square Revision History
tick-square Built-in code editor
tick-square Real-time sync
tick-square Plain text authoring
tick-square Nested Folders
tick-square Decentralized
tick-square Sync with Dropbox
tick-square Client side encryption
tick-square Tag based
tick-square Password encryption
tick-square Table creation
tick-square Local Storage
tick-square Encrypted Notes
tick-square E2e encryption
tick-square Encryption
tick-square Encrypted backups
tick-square AES encryption
tick-square Apps with End-to-End Encryption
tick-square Content Filtering
tick-square Vim key mapping
tick-square Clean design
tick-square Sync between devices
tick-square Security focused
tick-square Privacy Protected
tick-square MarkDown support
tick-square Self-hosted sync server
tick-square Search by tags
tick-square Android Sync
tick-square Privacy focused
tick-square Easy to use
tick-square Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
tick-square Ad-free
tick-square Cloud sync
tick-square Google Drive integration
tick-square Works Offline
tick-square Customizable

Standard Notes Platforms

Windows Web-Based Linux iPad Mac Android iPhone

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